Two women are in hospital after stabbings in north-end Halifax on Wednesday night, say Halifax Regional Police.

Halifax Regional Police have a section of North Street blocked off. (Graham Thompson/CBC)

Officers were called to a residence in the 5600 block of North Street after 7 p.m. for a weapons complaint. They found a woman there with stab wounds, police said. She is expected to survive.

At just after 9 p.m., two women were taken out of the house in handcuffs by police.

A 22-year-old woman is still in custody, while the second woman has been taken to hospital. She was also stabbed, but is expected to recover.

Police say the three woman all know each other.