Insite temporarily closed for police investigation after man wanders in with stab wounds

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      Insite was closed for a few hours on Sunday (April 24) after an injured man stumbled into the health-care facility presumably looking for help.

      “A man walked into In-site with multiple stab wounds,” reads a statement released by the Vancouver Police Department. “He was taken to hospital and will survive. He will not tell police where the incident occurred, who was involved or what lead up to it.”

      Police tape marked the supervised-injection facility as off limits Sunday afternoon. The Balmoral Hotel, located two doors east at 159 East Hastings, was also closed off.

      Insite is usually open seven days a week, from 10 a.m. to 4 a.m. It has served as a relatively safe space for people to use intravenous drugs since 2003, when it opened as the first sanctioned supervised-injection facility in North America. A fatal drug overdose has never occurred inside the building.

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