A man has been charged with attempted murder after a seemingly random street stabbing left a pensioner with life-threatening injuries.
Asim Hussain, 27, was charged last night in connection with Saturday’s incident in Tyseley, Birmingham.
West Midlands Police said the stabbing was being treated as a random attack.
The 77-year-old victim was injured near a row of shops in Tynedale Road at about 12.45pm after being grabbed from behind.
Witnesses said the man had just got out of his car and was approaching the shops when he was knifed.
A shopkeeper told the Birmingham Mail it ‘looked like he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.’
The force said in a statement: ‘He remains in a critical condition in hospital where his condition was described as life-threatening.
‘We quickly arrested a 27-year-old man and last night charged him with attempted murder and possessing a knife in public.
‘Asim Hussain, from Broadstone Road, Lea Hall, is set to appear at Wolverhampton Magistrates Court this morning via video link from our custody block.’
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