Patient stabbed in Thompson’s hospital
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A patient was injured in a stabbing in Thompson’s hospital Tuesday.
RCMP were sent to the site at about noon. Officers arrested a 20-year-old Thompson woman after security guards detained her near the emergency room. Officers learned she was not a patient at the hospital but was there with a family member.
Police found a knife on the woman arrested, RCMP said in a news release Wednesday.
The 43-year-old victim, who knows the woman arrested, was treated for a non-life-threatening injury and later released, police said.
The woman arrested is charged with aggravated assault and carrying a concealed weapon. She was remanded into custody.