8 Apr 2012

Man injured in stabbing

1:03 pm on 8 April 2012

A 41-year-old man is in hospital after a stabbing in a Wairarapa town.

Police say the victim was involved in an altercation with another man outside a house in Kent Street, in Carterton, at about 10.20pm on Saturday.

The man was stabbed in the chest and stomach and is in a serious but stable condition in Masterton Hospital.

Police are asking any witnesses to come forward.