UPDATE: Hastings Street is now reopened to traffic in both directions, according to VPD.

Hastings Street is now open to traffic both ways. Thank you for your patience.

— Vancouver Police (@VancouverPD) May 26, 2020

Vancouver Police are on scene responding to a “multiple stabbing” in the city’s Downtown Eastside neighbourhood this morning.

Hastings between Gore and Dunlevy is closed to all traffic due to a multiple stabbing. Transit has been rerouted. Please avoid the area. #VanTraffic

— Vancouver Police (@VancouverPD) May 26, 2020

On Twitter, VPD says Hastings between Gore and Dunlevy is closed to all traffic and transit is being rerouted.

The public is being asked to avoid the area.