A shocked neighbour has told how she heard "hysterical crying" at the scene of a frenzied knife attack in East Kilbride last night.
Police have now confirmed a 31-year-old man was found seriously injured with multiple lacerations to his body in a ground-floor flat in Strathfillan Road at around 7.50pm.
The victim was rushed to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow for treatment and is understood to be in a stable condition.
Police have now launched a probe into the horror attack with CID going door-to-door this morning.
A nearby resident told Lanarkshire Live: "I came home about 7.45pm and was in the shower when I heard a door being kicked in.
"I jumped out and heard all these people crying, really hysterical, and then a male voice going 'oh my God, oh my God, oh my God'.
"At that point I panicked and tried to phone the police. The next minute I looked out through my spyhole and saw all the police at the door and they came in and spoke to me.
"I didn't see anyone at all."
Another source shared gruesome details of the incident heard over a police radio, including “multiple lacerations to head and hand”.
She told us: “We could hear the cops from our window.
"They said, 'he's definitely going to need the hospital,' before the paramedic wheeled him out.”
Another neighbour said: "I only saw all the police activity, I didn't hear any commotion. It's really frightening, nothing like that ever happens here."
Lanarkshire Live told last night how emergency services flooded the scene in the West Mains area with paramedics blue-lighting the injured man to hospital.
Officers were seen scouring grassy areas and the nearby burn for evidence into the early hours, as well as conducting interviews with neighbours.
Sources close to the incident told Lanarkshire Live that the victim was known to police, but that has yet to be established.
A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: “Around 7.50am on Wednesday (February 22), police were called to a report of a man seriously assaulted within a house in Strathfillan Road, East Kilbride.
"Officers attended and a 31-year-old man was taken by ambulance to hospital in Glasgow where he is being treated for lacerations.
"Hospital staff describe his condition as stable.
"Enquiries are ongoing to establish the circumstances surrounding this incident and anyone with information that may assist our investigation should contact 101.”
Information can be left anonymously via Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
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