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Calgary police say officers took a stabbing sufferer to hospital early Saturday morning as no ambulances had been accessible on the time.

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Police had been known as to the 700 block of 8 Road S.W. round 5 a.m. for experiences of a stabbing.

They arrived to search out an grownup male with a single stab wound to the chest.

Employees Sgt. John Guigon with the Calgary Police Service stated there had been some form of confrontation within the parking zone of the comfort retailer at that handle between the sufferer and one other one that arrived in a car.

“Once we arrived, he was in pretty critical situation, profuse bleeding, and so on.,” stated Guigon. “We did first help and we had been sadly informed that EMS was in a pink alert scenario — they couldn’t reply — so we needed to rush him to Foothills.”

Guigon stated the sufferer acquired therapy and is now believed to be in secure situation.

Adam Loria with Calgary EMS stated crews had been dispatched to that handle simply earlier than 5 a.m., and that no one on the scene required medical providers.

Loria didn’t have data on any scarcity of ambulances. Postmedia has reached out to AHS for data on the pink alert.

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