Police are looking for a man in his mid 20s who stabbed another young man several times in what investigators are calling a random attack early Friday morning.

"Right now we're looking at a random incident," said Ottawa police spokesperson Const. Chuck Benoit. "We don't have a history [between] the victim and the suspect ... they didn't know each other."

It happened just after midnight on Ritchie Street near Carling Avenue, police said.

The victim, a man in his late teens, was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

No arrests had been made as of later Friday morning.