POLICE are investigating the circumstances surrounding an alleged attack on Xia Jun Zhang, a 36-year-old male Chinese of an unknown address.

Reports are that the man was reportedly stabbed around 21:15 hrs on Sunday at La Bonne Intention (LBI), East Coast Demerara.

Police ranks, acting on information received from a 911 call, responded to a report at Lot 25 Onion Field, La Bonne Intention, where contact was made with a 66-year-old pensioner of the said address, who claimed that, on January 1, at 21:15 hrs, he was in his living room watching television when he heard his gate rocking.

Upon looking through his window, he saw a Chinese male running into his yard, screaming for help.

The pensioner then went to his back step, which is situated south of his building, and he saw the male Chinese lying on the ground in his yard with blood on his clothes along with stab wounds to the left side of his upper body.

The EMT was summoned, and the injured man was picked up in a conscious state and escorted to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation’s Emergency Unit, where surgery was performed. His condition is listed as critical. Investigation is ongoing, the police said.