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Arrests after stabbing in Gosport
Three men have been arrested after a person was stabbed in Gosport.
Police were called to a stabbing near to Lidl in Forton Road, at the junction of Alma Street, at 6.49am today.
Initial reports say the victim died at the scene, but this hasn't been confirmed by police.
Other reports say a second person was also stabbed. However this again hasn't been confirmed by officers.
A blood-soaked towel was seen lying on the ground. A police cordon has been put up around the Garlic Cafe, Alma Street and a few houses along Forton Road.
A suspect is said to have fled from the scene and knocked on a back door of a house in Whitworth Road, half a mile away.
A woman opened it and he forced his way through the house.
When he came out she apparently shouted:'What do you think you're doing?'
He ran across Whitworth Road and dived in between a fence and some bushes in Whitworth Close.
Eye-witnesses say cash was falling out of his pockets as he ran.
An employee at Tyre Stocks Ltd, right next to where he was hiding, spotted him and alerted a passing policeman on a motorbike.
The suspect then tried to jump over the fence but was rugby tackled by the policeman and they crashed through the fence together.
Police have confirmed that they were called out to a stabbing and that three men have been arrested and are in custody.
Scott Bowler, 21, who was staying with his daughter Whitworth Road, said: 'He came running through someone's house. He came out the front door.
'When he was running out of the house he had wads of cash falling out of his pocket and I saw police picking them up and putting them in evidence bags.'
Beryl Cantle, 66, from Whitworth Road, said: 'The police turned up and he ran from the scene. Apparently he ran over back gardens and knocked on someone's door and asked if he could be let through their house.
'There were dozens of police, I don't know how many but a couple of them were armed.'
Louise Sillence, 48, a hairdresser, from Welch Road, was visiting a customer a few doors down from the incident.
She said: 'All I know is that there was a man on the floor just outside surrounded by police.
'I came out just as it was going on and there must have been about 10 police.'
A police spokeswoman said: 'Emergency services were called to Alma Street, Gosport, at 6.49am after reports of a stabbing.
'Three men have been arrested in connection with this incident and are currently in police custody.'
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