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Police are investigating a multiple stabbing on Blossom Drive early Sunday that left a 28-year-old man in critical condition and two others wounded.

Police were called to a three-storey low-rise apartment building at 2176 Blossom in Alta Vista about 3:20 a.m. and found two men and a woman, all in their 20s, with stab wounds.

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Paramedics say the 28-year-old was taken to hospital in critical condition while a 26-year-old man was hospitalized in serious condition and a 20-year-old woman in stable condition.

Ottawa police Insp. Michel Marin said Sunday evening the medical condition of the injured had “improved,” but police were still in the preliminary stages of the investigation.

He described the incident as “a targeted act,” and “not random,” but declined to say what the motive might have been. Witnesses, including those who had been injured, were “not very co-operative,” he said.

Several neighbours, meanwhile, said they are surprised by the attack in a building that is typically quiet. It seemed to have taken place in a basement apartment where a young man and woman lived.

Neighbour Henok Mengistu said the pair moved in about six months ago and were “quiet.” He said he heard noise that sounded like fighting and screaming, and the police arrived minutes later.

Another neighbour, Kim Briggs, who lives in the building, said she heard nothing and was shocked to find out people had been stabbed.

“Oh, no, no … we never have that around here. Ever,” she said. “If anything, I am the wildest because I drink.

“Wow, we never have that. … This building is so quiet. Always.”

The investigation continues.