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Man Stabbed in Back, Collapses on Philly Street

A man crumpled to the ground outside a Philadelphia drug store early Saturday morning -- after stumbling from where he was stabbed a block away.

Police found the 30-year-old victim outside the Rite Aid at West Lehigh Avenue and North American Street in the city's Kensington neighborhood around 2:45 a.m., nearly 30 minutes after he was stabbed in the lower back and left hand on the 200 block of West Lehigh Avenue.

Police rushed the victim to Temple University Hospital in critical condition, officials said.

The stabbing occurred about 30 minutes before police found him along the 200 block of West Lehigh Avenue.

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