A 27-YEAR-OLD postman is recovering in hospital after being stabbed in the abdomen and neck at the weekend.
The victim was walking home with his girlfriend and friends when he was confronted by three men near the Georgian Houses in Durham Road, Sunderland, shortly before midnight on Saturday.
He was taken by paramedics to Sunderland Royal Hospital, where his condition was last night described as serious but stable.
Police were last night questioning three men in connection with the incident.
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