A knifeman has gone on the run after a woman was stabbed in the back.
Armed police swooped on a house in Whitworth, near Rochdale, on Sunday afternoon.
It came after a man had threatened a woman in her 30s with a knife before stabbing her in the back.
She received medical treatment.
Police, who spent about three and a half hours at the scene, initially believed the man was inside the semi-detached house on Eastgate but they couldn't locate him and he remains on the run.
A downstairs window at the house had also been smashed.
A spokesperson for Lancashire Police told LancsLive: "We were called at around 12.15pm yesterday (Sunday) to an address on Eastgate, Whitworth, to reports a man had been making threats towards a woman while in possession of a knife.
"We attended and found the woman, aged in her 30s, outside the address with a wound to her back. She has since received medical treatment.
"The man was initially believed to be inside the property, however that is now not the case and enquiries are ongoing to locate him."
Pictures from the scene showed police, some of them armed, surrounding a house at the end of Wallbank Drive at its junction with Eastgate.
When the M.E.N. went to the scene on Sunday, no-one was in the house that had been the focus of police attention.
One resident, who declined to be named, admitted the visit of so many armed police had been 'pretty scary'.
"There were a lot of them. It's not something you really expect," she said.
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Another resident described how she saw the woman and her mother leave the property as police arrived.
Officers then searched the property, she said.
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