Police investigating daytime stabbing in Cambridge’s Harvard Square

Police are investigating a daytime stabbing in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Around 9:15 a.m., Cambridge police, fire and EMS responded to Church Street in Harvard Square for a report of a stabbing.

When they arrived, they found a victim suffering from multiple stab wounds. Witnesses told police the suspect had fled the scene.

The victim was taken by ambulance to a local hospital for treatment of serious injuries.

The suspeft was apprehended a short time later with assistance from MBTA Transit Police inside the Harvard Square MBTA Station.

The incident remains under investigation, police said, and there is no ongoing threat to the general public.