A boy aged 11 and a 40-year-old man have sustained serious injuries in an incident in Harrogate today.
North Yorkshire Police are currently at the scene of the incident in Beckwithshaw, to the south-west of Harrogate.
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Officers were called to a property in Church Row, Otley Road, at 8.20am today (Monday June 20) and on arrival found the boy and man both with serious injuries believed to be sustained by a blade.
Both have been taken to hospital.
The road was closed while emergency services attended the property, and police say it will remain closed for several hours.
A police spokesman confirmed that the incident is not connected to a nearby school.
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