Man charged after Rowville bus stabbing

Friday 28 March saw Knox Crime Investigation Unit detectives charge a man after two people were stabbed in Rowville that same morning. (File).

Friday 28 March saw Knox Crime Investigation Unit detectives charge a man after two people were stabbed in Rowville that same morning.

Emergency services responded to reports of an alleged altercation involving two men and a woman on a Wantirna South-bound bus shortly after midnight.

Police have alleged that one of the men produced a knife and slashed the other 59-year-old Scoresby man and the 53-year-old Ferntree Gully woman.

The male victim was taken to hospital with critical injuries, while the woman was taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.

After patrolling the area, officers located and arrested a 36-year-old Melbourne man.

He has since been charged with intentionally cause serious injury and intentionally cause injury.

The man was remanded and was scheduled to appear before Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on 29 March.