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VPD investigates fatal stabbing in Mount Pleasant

Police are investigating after a 51-year-old woman was stabbed in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood in Vancouver over the weekend.

Officers found the victim while responding to reports of “disturbances” in an apartment building early Sunday morning, the Vancouver Police Department said in a press release Monday.

The woman died from her injuries on the spot, near Ontario Street and First Avenue. Her death was the third murder in the city in a year.

A 51-year-old man has been detained but has not been charged. Authorities said they believed the suspect and the victim knew each other.