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Investigation underway after man found stabbed - North Albury

Where: Calimo Street, North Albury, the street the release names · See the street on the map

Investigation underway after man found stabbed - North Albury
North Albury, New South Wales · NSW Police

The release

An investigation is underway after a man was found critically injured in the state’s south this morning.

About 1am (Sunday 27 September 2026), emergency services were called to Calimo Street, North Albury, after reports of an injured man.

Officers attached to Murray River Police District responded and located a 28-year-old man suffering a stab wound to his neck.

He was treated by NSW Ambulance paramedics on scene before he was taken to hospital in a critical condition.

A crime scene was established and an investigation into the incident has commenced.

Anyone with information, CCTV, mobile phone and or dashcam vision in relation to the incident is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

Anyone with information about this incident is urged to contact Crime Stoppers: 1800 333 000 or https://nsw.crimestoppers.com.au . Information is managed on a confidential basis. The public is reminded not to report information via NSW Police social media pages.

— NSW Police
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Crime in the Greater Hume council area

Greater Hume is a council area in New South Wales with about 11,742 residents. It has a Crime Score 32 out of 100 (low), 283rd of 362 councils nationally.

The score blends national percentile ranks for each published offence category with fixed severity weights; here it is driven most by homicide (68th percentile), sexual offences (54th percentile), robbery (30th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 33.

Violent
673 per 100k
Property
1,703 per 100k
Break-ins
213 per 100k
Theft
605 per 100k

See the full Greater Hume crime profile

2016-17: 566 per 100,0002017-18: 533 per 100,0002018-19: 648 per 100,0002019-20: 585 per 100,0002020-21: 621 per 100,0002021-22: 839 per 100,0002022-23: 738 per 100,0002023-24: 755 per 100,0002024-25: 886 per 100,0002025-26: 673 per 100,0002016-172021-222025-26
Recorded violent offences per 100,000 residents in Greater Hume, 2016-17 to 2025-26 — up 19% over the period. Source: recorded crime published for New South Wales.

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