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A teenage male was being treated in hospital after being stabbed at the Herongate Mall on Thursday.

Ottawa police were called to an area near the Food Basics store at about 7:40 p.m. to find the young man lying on the floor. He was taken to the Civic campus of The Ottawa Hospital with serious injuries.

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Nur Diyab, 20, a Carleton University student, was shopping in the store with his mother when he saw four or five men pursuing the victim in the store aisles. He said they were being “super loud and obnoxious” and one was carrying a vehicle snow-brush in a threatening manner.

“This caused a huge scene inside the store and it was chaos. People started running for their safety to the back of the store.”

Moments later, he saw the victim bleeding near the cash checkout. It wasn’t clear whether he was injured before or after he entered the mall, Diyab said, because there were traces of blood near the entrance.