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A knife-wielding man was chasing a pickup truck when he was struck by the vehicle and dragged across the parking lot of an east London auto-body shop, witnesses say.

A man entered the business on Kitchener Avenue, east of Adelaide Street North and Hamilton Road, on Tuesday morning and started arguing with the owner, says a customer who was inside at the time.

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The man left after the business owner ordered him off the property. But the man returned in a car a short time later, said the witness, who asked to not be identified due to the violent nature of what he saw.

The man parked the car behind the shop and came back to the business, where he pulled out a knife and went after the owner, the customer said.

“He jumps in that black truck trying to get away,” the witness said of the owner, gesturing toward a black Dodge Ram pickup truck surrounded by police tape.

The knife-wielding man ran toward the driver’s window as the truck was backing out of the parking lot before it drove forward and struck him, said the customer, who called 911.

“He was bleeding under his back, his chin,” he said of the injured man.

Police say they were called Tuesday at 10:15 a.m. to Kitchener Avenue, where officers found a man who had been struck by a vehicle.

The man was taken to hospital with serious injuries, Const. Sandasha Bough said.

A second man was taken into custody, but no charges had been laid Tuesday, Bough said, declining to confirm whether investigators retrieved a weapon.