Despite the presence of police officers, a man was stabbed over the weekend as he attempted to make a report at a police station in the St Andrew South division, THE STAR has heard.

According to witnesses and police sources from the division, the incident occurred on Saturday evening following a car accident involving two vehicles which collided close to the police station.

One of the drivers involved in the collision allegedly went inside the station to report the incident and was attacked by the other motorist who stormed in with a knife.

It is not clear what happened to the injured man or the alleged attacker afterwards.

Efforts to get an official comment were unsuccessful. When the station was contacted on Sunday evening, personnel there said there were no such reports.

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Last evening, however, a constable who answered the telephone said he had heard of the incident but directed all questions to the investigating officer who he claimed was out of office.

Also, a source from the Constabulary Communication Network admitted he too had heard of the incident but, upon trying to get the details, was told that no such reports could be found in the station diary.

When the head of the division was contacted, he also said he was not aware of the incident.

Nevertheless, one 26-year-old woman who lives close to the station and who claimed to witness the attack, said, "Is a bus mi a wait pon eno, and mi see when di man run go een a di station wid di knife and stab di next man ... A wah police fah then?" she said.

Those comments were after a police source contacted THE STAR and told of hearing about the incident but explained he was off-duty and could not provide the exact details.