SINGAPORE \u2013 Two men had an altercation at a known <\/p>\n red-light area<\/p>\n <\/a> in Geylang in the early hours of March 9, with one arrested and the other fighting for his life. <\/p>\n The latter, a 70-year-old man, was taken unconscious to hospital. <\/p>\n The Straits Times understands he suffered stab wounds to the chest.<\/p>\n The other man, 48, was taken conscious to another hospital.<\/p>\n A police spokeswoman said they were alerted to the fight along Lorong 16 Geylang at around 8.15am.<\/p>\n She said the younger man was arrested for voluntarily causing grievous hurt with a dangerous weapon, and both men knew each other.<\/p>\n A Singapore Civil Defence Force spokesman said it took one of them to Tan Tock Seng Hospital and the other to Raffles Hospital. <\/p>\n When ST arrived at the scene at around 10.25am, at least five police cars were parked there.<\/p>\n Police officers at the scene of of the crime at Lorong 16 Geylang on March 9.<\/p>\n ST PHOTO: KUA CHEE SIONG<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n A private carpark next to a religious association had been cordoned off by the police, with bloodstains on the pavement next to a rubbish bin.<\/p>\n An owner of a traditional Chinese medicine shop, who wanted to be known only as Ms Lyu, said the cordons had already been up when she arrived at her shop at 8.30am.<\/p>\n Plainclothes officers were speaking to at least three people, believed to be witnesses.<\/p>\n Two men had an altercation at a known red-light area in Geylang in the early hours of March 9, with one arrested and the other fighting for his life. <\/p>\n ST PHOTO: KUA CHEE SIONG<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n At around 10.40am, investigators placed numbered plates on the ground near the bloodstains.<\/p>\n<\/picture><\/div>
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