14-year-old girl stabbed in the face in Oakland

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A 14-year-old girl was stabbed in the face on her way to school in a shocking and apparently random attack in the Pill Hill neighborhood of Oakland on Tuesday morning, police said.

The assault occurred on the 400 block of 29th street in Oakland on Tuesday about 8:52 a.m., according to the Oakland Police Department.

The girl was stabbed multiple times by the attacker, who police currently believe is a stranger to her, according to OPD.

The attack occurred outside a nursing home, and several employees of the home rushed outside to distract the attacker, then ran back inside when he came at them with a knife, a spokesman for the facility confirmed.

When officers arrived at the scene, they were told the girl had been taken to the hospital, and multiple witnesses worked with them to help them find the suspect, a 26-year-old Oakland man whose name is not being released.

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"Investigators are still speaking with witnesses and reviewing video surveillance footage to determine the circumstances surrounding this incident," Officer Marco Marquez, a spokesman for the Oakland Police Department, said in a statement. "The attack appears to be random."

Multiple knives were recovered at the scene, Marquez said.

The victim was in stable condition Wednesday as she recovered from the knife attack, according to police.

Filipa Ioannou is an SFGATE staff writer. Email her at fioannou@sfchronicle.com and follow her on Twitter