A man has been arrested in Victoria and is set to be extradited to NSW after an alleged stabbing on an inner Sydney street.
Victoria Police arrested a 40-year-old man in Coburg, an inner suburb of Melbourne, at about 11am today.
He was taken to Broadmeadows Police Station where he will be charged with a NSW arrest warrant for robbery whilst armed.
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NSW Police are working with Victoria Police to extradite the man back to Sydney.
Officers were called to Darling Road in Haymarket at about 4.20pm on Sunday following reports a 22-year-old man had been stabbed in the back.
Paramedics treated the injured man at the scene and he was taken to St Vincent’s Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Detective Acting Inspector Chris Fisher told Ben Fordham on 2GB radio the attack was believed to be random, with the two men not known to each other.
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