Montreal police investigating after woman found dead, attack in nearby apartment

Montreal police say a woman is dead and a man was seriously injured in a stabbing in the city’s Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension borough.

Police say they received a 911 call for an armed assault inside an apartment building around 1:30 p.m. today.

Officers found a 23-year-old man who was transported to hospital with stab wounds to his upper body, but doctors do not fear for his life.

A 26-year-old woman was arrested at the scene.