POLICE are investigating two stabbing incidents in Birchwood.

A member of the public raised the alarm after discovering a 42-year-old man with severe lacerations during the early hours of Saturday morning.

Meanwhile, a second man from the same area was questioned by police after he was taken to hospital for treatment to self-inflicted slash wounds.

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