SYDNEY, March 28 (Xinhua) -- A man has been arrested after two people were stabbed on a bus in Melbourne's southeast.
Emergency services were called to reports of an argument involving two men and a woman on a bus in the suburb of Rowville, 28 km southeast of central Melbourne, in the early hours of Friday morning.
Police said in a statement that one of the men pulled out a knife and "slashed" a 59-year-old man and a 53-year-old woman in the face and upper body area.
The man was critically injured, and the woman sustained serious but non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
Officers attended the scene and began a search for the alleged attacker with the assistance of the dog squad, but he could not be located.
A police vehicle conducting a nearby routine patrol several hours later spotted a man matching the description of the attacker and took him into custody.
Police said that the 36-year-old man would be interviewed by investigators.
Investigators allege that none of the three people involved was known to each other. ■
