A 25-year-old man was stabbed Saturday night in the Ville-Marie borough in Montreal.

The assault occurred around 8 p.m. at the corner of Sainte-Catherine and Atwater streets in Montreal.

The man, injured in the upper body but still conscious, was transferred to a hospital, said spokesperson for the Service de Police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM), Julien Lévesque.

A security perimeter was erected to allow investigators to shed light on this attack.

No arrests have been made at this time.