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MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Manik Gurung shows the garbage bin in which an assault victim was found Saturday.

A 23-year-old man is in critical condition after he was beaten almost beyond recognition and left to die in a trash bin in the back lane of the 500 block of Spence Street Saturday morning.

Manik Gurung said his mother heard sounds coming from the garbage bin in which the victim was found behind their house around 8 a.m. Saturday.

"She saw the man in the garbage, like, face and T-shirt, she was very frightened," said Gurung, whose family settled on Spence Street after emigrating from Nepal.

The garbage bin where the man was found is right behind Gurung's house. Although it had been cleared of most trash, flies continued to swarm, and under the sun, it reeked of old garbage.

Gurung's mother called her other son and told him what she saw, and he called police, Gurung explained.

"She was scared and she called my brother because she doesn't speak English, and my brother called the police," Gurung said.

The 23-year-old victim suffered multiple injuries to the upper body, police said, and is believed to have been hanging out with a group of people before what police are describing as an "altercation" occurred.

The group may have been drinking at the time of the incident, and the role alcohol played in the assault is being investigated, police said Sunday.

A 17-year-old male and 15-year-old female were arrested and both are charged with attempted murder. Police said the suspects are believed to have known the victim, and there is no immediate indication of this being a gang-related incident.

Gurung said it's scary as a newcomer to Canada to see crimes like this occurring in the neighbourhood.

"We immigrate here, and we're planning to maybe move somewhere else," he said. "It's so dangerous for us to live here."

Florencia Marquez lives on Isabel Street, and her backyard also faces the bin where the victim was found. She saw the body in the garbage early Saturday while standing at her back door.

"Well they have this stretcher and then put it under, and they have him rest up on it," said Marquez. "And I said probably he's still alive because he isn't pale."

All suspects are believed to have fled the scene after allegedly putting the man in the garbage bin. Police continue to investigate.

kristy.hoffman@freepress.mb.ca