Three charged with attempted murder after stabbing

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News image — A 31-year-old man was taken to hospital with a stab injury to his leg on Thursday

BBC A cordoned off end of a residential road, with cones and a Road Closed sign. Police cars and seen in front of and behind the cordon. It is cloudy. — A 31-year-old man was taken to hospital with a stab injury to his leg on Thursday

Three men have been charged with attempted murder after a man was stabbed in the leg in a residential street.

Police said the 31-year-old was taken to hospital in a serious, possibly life-threatening, condition after being found injured on Hawthorn Crescent in Cosham, Portsmouth, shortly before 14:30 GMT on Thursday.

He remains in hospital in a stable condition, police said.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary said that following six arrests, three men, two aged 18 and one 19, had been charged. They remain in custody and are due to appear at Portsmouth Magistrates' Court on Monday.

A member of a forensic team with a white suit taking photographs in the area of the stabbing with a camera. Two cones lay nearby. A door of a white van is seen open in the picture frame. — Forensic invstigations were carried out at the scene after the attack on Thursday

Eighteen-year-olds Arif Ahmadzai, from Southsea, and Abdullah Mirzad, from Portsmouth, have been charged with attempted murder.

Abdul Shinwari, 19, from Southampton, has been charged with attempted murder and possessing an offensive weapon in a public place.

An 18-year-old man from Southampton arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and possessing a knife blade or sharp pointed blade in a public place has been bailed until 13 June, pending further enquiries.

Two men, aged 21 and 29 from Portsmouth, arrested on suspicion of witness intimidation, have been bailed until 12 June, pending further enquiries.

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