Two men who suffered severe stab injuries yesterday are known to each other, it’s been revealed.
Gardai are now working to establish the full circumstances surrounding the incidents and believe a third man may have been involved.
The injured pair were brought by ambulance from Limerick city to the University Hospital where their condition was last described as “critical”.
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Investigators are hoping both men can recover so they help their inquiry but that will take some time as their injuries are so severe.
At around 2.35am yesterday, gardai were alerted to an incident at a house on New Road in Thomondgate where they found a man in his 20s with knife wounds.
Officers then discovered a second man, in his 40s, with similar injuries at another property nearby on Cross Road.
They sealed off several parts of the area and were conducting forensic examinations yesterday.
A team of forensic officers placed more than 20 markers beside apparent blood stains, along a vast stretch of footpath in the New Road and Distillery View areas of the northside community.
A large green in the area, as well as a number of houses, were sealed off by gardai. A Garda spokesman said: “Both residences have been preserved for a technical examination by investigating officers.”
Councillor Tom Collopy told how the attacks left elderly people in the community unsettled as they happened near the site where an elderly woman was murdered.
Rose Hanrahan was strangled to death by Alexandru Iordache in December 2017 after the thug followed the frail 78-year-old home from a supermarket before attacking her.
Mr Collopy said: “It’s time to call it out for what it is.
“It’s totally unacceptable in a civilised society and community that incidents of this nature are happening.”
A Garda spokesman said: “Anyone who was in the area of New Road and Cross Road, Thomondgate, yesterday morning between the hours of 2am and 3am, including any road users who may have camera footage, including dash cam, is asked to contact investigating detectives.
“Anyone with any information is asked to contact Henry Street Garda station on 061 212400, the Confidential Line
on 1800 666 111, or any Garda station. Investigations are ongoing.”
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