Six-year-old girl stabbed stepping between two robbers and her father in New York

Child in a stable condition from stab wound to the torso

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A six-year-old girl was stabbed while stepping between a robber and her 55-year-old father in New York in the early hours of Thursday morning, police say.

An NYPD spokesperson said the father and daughter were in Manhattan's Lower East Side when two men held them up at knifepoint and robbed the man of his property.

"In the course of holding the male victim at knifepoint, stabbed the child in the torso/abdomen, before fleeing the location on foot," the spokesperson said.

Police and EMS responded to a 911 call at about 12:28 am and found the girl with a stab wound near the corner of Monroe and Pike streets.

She was taken to NYC Health & Hospitals/Bellevue in a stable condition.

No arrests have been made and police are continuing to search for the two suspects.