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Man, 55, charged with attempted murder

Last Updated: Friday, November 20, 2009 | 2:54 PM CT

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A 55-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder in connection with a 17-hour standoff in northern Manitoba.

Allan Walter Witt has also been charged with assault and dangerous driving.

The standoff erupted Wednesday after a stabbing in the remote community of Flin Flon, about 800 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg on the Manitoba-Saskatchewan border.

Sgt. Nolan Suss said officers were called at about 8 p.m. Wednesday to a home in the town after a man allegedly stabbed a woman during a domestic argument.

The woman, 47, fled the home with another woman and called police, Suss said in a statement on Thursday.

When officers arrived, a man barricaded himself in the home.

Emergency response teams from Winnipeg and Saskatchewan were called in to assist, Suss said. The man surrendered at 1 p.m. Thursday.

The woman who was stabbed was taken to hospital in Winnipeg by air ambulance. She is listed in stable condition with injuries that are not life threatening, Suss said.

Witt, a resident of Flin Flon, has been remanded into custody to appear in provincial court in The Pas on Nov. 23.

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