A MOTHER and daughter are “stable” in the same hospital having suffered critical stab wounds at their Hereford home.

Detectives are waiting to interview the women but are not seeking any other person over what occurred on Tuesday afternoon.

Police and ambulance crews responded to a 999 call from the address in Kempton Avenue, Bobblestock, just after midday.

As yet, it is not confirmed which of the women made the call.

Inside the house police officers found Jane James, believed to be in her 50s, downstairs with stab wounds described as lifethreatening to her head and neck.

Upstairs officers found her 30-year-old daughter Naomi, also with a series of serious stab wounds.

The situation required police officers to provide protection for paramedics sent in to treat both women.

Each woman was stabilised at the scene before being flown by air ambulance to the major trauma unit at Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital in separate helicopters.

The address was sealed off for crime scene teams over much of the afternoon and a kitchen knife was recovered.

Detective Inspector Richard Rees, of Herefordshire CID, said the injured women were the only people in the house at the time.

Full circumstances would be established when the women were fit enough to be interviewed, he said.