A TOURIST has been stabbed in the back of the neck “by a homeless man” while strolling through Valencia with her boyfriend.
The female holidaymaker was jumped from behind and left covered in blood before the attacker quickly fled the scene in Spain.
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She became the second victim of a homeless stranger stabbing in Spain within just 24 hours.
Cops said the stabbing happened on Wednesday morning, just a day after a homeless Salvadoran knifed a man at Palma Airport in Majorca in another random attack.
The alleged aggressor, a 45-year-old thought to be living at the airport, was arrested at the scene.
The depraved suspect was kept in custody after being told he was being investigated on suspicion of attempted homicide.
The man suspected of the more recent Valencia attack was also arrested following the horrific stabbing.
Local police confirmed he slept rough.
They also said they assisted victim after she was hurt and later detained the alleged knifeman.
The force said: “At 10 o’clock on Wednesday, our control room received a call indicating that a woman was bleeding profusely from the neck and had apparently been assaulted by a passer-by in a street called Calle Conde Trenor.
“A neighbourhood police who was close to the scene went to the address indicated and assisted the victim, a 29 year old Italian, who had a cut on the back of her neck which was bleeding heavily.”
They added: “The wound was covered with a towel provided by a neighbour.
“Several locals were with the victim as well as her partner.”
The also revealed other details about the chilling stabbing.
“The partner said a man had approached them from behind and had stabbed his girlfriend in the neck with a metal object before running away,” police said.
“He gave the officer a detailed description of the assailant.”
Cops suspected the attacker “could be someone well-known in the neighbourhood who usually spends the night in a sleeping bag”.
Police have since revealed the suspected attacker, who is thought to have gone beserk after being refused entry to a toilet.
He was arrested in a nearby square around 3.30pm local time on Wednesday.
The force said: “The suspect also had traces of blood on his clothes. The victim’s partner recognised this person as the one who attacked them that same morning.”
Identifying the suspect only by his initials, a local police spokesman added: “For these reasons, officers proceeded to arrest J.A.T.”
The holidaymaker stabbed in the neck in Valencia has now been released from hospital after treatment.
Spain’s homelessness problem has made international headlines this week after it emerged around 500 rough sleepers were bedding down at Madrid’s Barajas Airport.
Night-time restrictions aimed at preventing them accessing the airport terminal were introduced on Wednesday night.
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