Police are hunting for a man over a stabbing at a synagogue in St Kilda East.
The incident, shortly after noon on Saturday, sent the Yeshivah Centre synagogue in Hotham Street into lockdown for about an hour.
A man in his 20s with abdominal injuries was taken to The Alfred hospital where he remains in a serious but stable condition.
Police say the exact circumstances of the incident remain unknown but they believe the men are known to each other.
Full report by Benjamin Millar in The Age
Same story covered in The Courier-Mail
And more details now from Frum in Melbourne