Man stabbed outside Auckland City Mission

The Auckland City Mission on Hobson Street. Photo / Herald on Sunday

Police are hunting a knife-wielding offender who stabbed a man outside Auckland City Mission this morning.

Mission staff heard banging on the door and cries for help about 8am as they were about to open for the day, a City Mission spokeswoman said.

The victim was treated at the mission's on-site medical facility before an ambulance arrived and took him to Auckland Hospital.

Detective Sergeant Andy King said the 43-year-old man had been stabbed in his side outside the building on Hobson St.

His wound was serious but not life threatening, he said.

- NZPA