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‘Random’ stabbing

Nicole MacDonald was browsing her BlackBerry, waiting for the streetcar at Broadview and Danforth Aves., when she felt a strange man’s arms wrap around her from behind, as if to give her a hug. Before the 26-year-old realized what was happening Tuesday night, the man plunged a 5-inch blade into her stomach. She had never seen him before. It was a random attack.

“He came up behind me, and … then he stabbed me three or so times,” she said yesterday.

Detectives revealed the man charged with attempted murder in the incident, 47-year-old Samad Dabiri, had been convicted of an “eerily similar” offence five years earlier.