Three injured in southern Interior fast-food restaurant stabbings

PENTICTON — Three people are in hospital following a stabbing incident at a fast-food restaurant in B.C.’s southern Interior.

RCMP Sgt. Barry Kennedy said officers arrived at the restaurant in Princeton on Wednesday afternoon and found two women suffering from stab wounds and a man trying to cut his own throat.

B.C. Ambulance spokeswoman Kelsey Carwithen said the patients were taken to hospitals in Princeton, Kelowna and Penticton, and that one of them was transported by air ambulance.