The moment a man who was reportedly stabbed three times for his food shopping was rushed to hospital has been caught on mobile phone footage.
With its blue lights flashing and siren blazing the ambulance is led away by a police convoy on Monday night, just minutes after the 62-year-old man was attacked at Salford Precinct in Manchester.
The video clip shows shocked people looking on and others walking by trying to shield their young children as police scour the area outside a supermarket and put up "Do not cross" tape around the car park.
The man's car can be seen still parked in the spot he left it in and officers can be seen looking into the front seats in the footage.
Locals have said the area has been "like a war zone" while others said they were shocked by what had taken place.
Tony Honer, from mobility aid shop ScootaMart which looks out onto the car park, told the Mirror: "It's like a war zone, there's beggars, drunks, drug dealers, shoplifting is rife.
"It's been going on for years."
He added that people had been in and out of the shop discussing what happened all morning, and were using the store more like a community centre.
He said: "It's a little community here. This guy is probably some nice fella doing his shopping and some little scrote has stabbed him.
"You know the type, can't be bothered to work for a living."
The horror attack is understood to have happened outside the Aldi in Salford just before 4.30pm and the victim was said to have been inside the supermarket prior to the incident.
One man told the Mirror he heard the man's car alarm going off prior to the police arriving, but thought nothing of it as people carried on with their business.
Another eyewitness said saw the man slumped over in his car before people started running out of the shopping mall.
The shop worker, who asked to remain anonymous, told the Manchester Evening News: "We saw everyone running out of the precinct.
"I saw an old man at the side of his car. He had been stabbed.
"They tried to take his shopping off him as he made his way to his car. He was taken to the hospital.
"His car is still there outside the Aldi now. The whole area has been cordoned off. The shopping centre and everywhere else has had to close.
"Aldi has been completely blocked off. There are police cars at every entrance of the precinct and the car park."
The Mirror has asked police for an update on the 62-year-old man's condition and for a description of the suspect police are still looking for, but neither have been forthcoming.
Last night, Greater Manchester Police's Detective Sergeant Gareth Bannister, said: "I would like to reassure the public first and foremost that this is an isolated incident, and our officers are leaving no stone unturned to locate the suspect in question.
"Our officers will remain in the local area to conduct further enquiries this evening and we have an increased number of patrolling officers across the centre of Salford to provide further reassurance to our community.
