Police and a recovery team get the Ford Ka out of a field near the Castel Hospital. (Picture by Peter Frankland, 0912286)

A MAN was rushed to hospital yesterday after being stabbed in the stomach.

He flagged down a passing motorist who drove him to Accident and Emergency with a wound said to have been caused by a four-inch blade.

He also had a cut to the face.

The attack triggered a major police response in two parts of the island as the alleged assailant left the scene of the stabbing, a home opposite the Corbet Field, St Sampson’s.

After a call to the emergency services at 12.20pm the Ambulance and Rescue Service was also scrambled and ambulances were stationed in stand-by positions around the island.

The 51-year-old injured man, who has not been named, was conscious and called police from his mobile phone en route to the Princess Elizabeth Hospital.

Inspector Phil Breban could not confirm this morning whether someone had been stabbed but said a 51-year-old man had been injured in an incident yesterday lunchtime in Grand Fort Road and a non-local 52-year-old man had been arrested.

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