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Saskatoon police are looking for a man who slashed another man with a samurai sword on New Year’s Day.

Police were were called around 12:30 p.m. Sunday to the 400 block of Avenue I South, where they assisted a 29-year-old man who had been slashed twice with a sword. The man was taken to hospital with injuries that were described as serious but not life-threatening.

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Police said the victim knows the man who slashed him. They are searching for the suspect, who fled before police arrived.

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