A MAN has been stabbed in the back with a kitchen knife during a domestic argument.

Police and paramedics attended Gladstone Street, Darlington, at about 4.15pm today (October 26) and the 34-year-old victim was taken to by ambulance James Cook University Hospital with a puncture wound.

His injury is not thought to be life-threatening.

A 22-year-old woman was arrested at the scene and taken into police custody.

Insp Chris Knox of Darlington police reassured residents that there were no concerns over the general safety of the town and said that no members of the public were put at risk by the incident.

“This was purely a domestic incident, no-one else was involved, she has been arrested and is in custody,” he said.

The stabbing is the third in the town in the last two weeks, but police have stressed that none of the incidents are related.

On Lowe Street, just round the corner from Gladstone Street, an 18-year-old man was attacked by a man with a glass bottle in the early hours of Saturday October 13.

He suffered cuts to his arms, chest and stomach.

Later that day at about 5.30pm, a 19-year-old man was stabbed with a kitchen knife in the back, shoulder and neck, near a children's play area in Glebe Road.

A suspect was arrested for each of the incidents.