SAN FRANCISCO, May 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Police were hunting for a man who stabbed two Asian American women without warning on Tuesday afternoon in San Francisco’s Mid-Market area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers were sent to 4th and Stockton streets shortly before 5pm\u00a0and found the wounded women, who were taken to a hospital. There was no immediate word on their conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Witnesses told KPIX-TV that one woman appeared to be elderly and the other appeared to be in her 30s. They told the station that a man clutching a knife was walking down Market Street when he approached a bus stop, stabbed the women, and then walked away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police didn’t immediately indicate whether the women were specifically targeted or whether the attack might be a hate crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Asian Americans have been the target of several unprovoked attacks in the San Francisco Bay Area in recent months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prosecutors have filed assault and hate crime charges against a man accused of an attack last week in which he allegedly yelled racial slurs before knocking down Carl Chan, president of the Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In separate San Francisco attacks in March, an 83-year-old Vietnamese man was knocked down and broke his neck in the fall, and a 77-year-old woman was similarly attacked. Police arrested a man for assault and elder abuse in both cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another 83-year-old man was pushed down in February, broke a hip and spent weeks in the hospital and in rehabilitation. — NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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