<p>SAN FRANCISCO — Police were hunting for a man who stabbed two Asian American women without warning Tuesday afternoon in San Francisco’s Mid-Market area.</p>
<p>Officers were sent to 4th and Stockton streets shortly before 5 p.m. and found the wounded women, who were taken to a hospital. There was no immediate word on their conditions.</p>
<p>Witnesses told <a href="https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/05/04/asian-american-attacks-sf-stabbing-4th-stockton-streets-mid-market/">KPIX-TV</a> that one woman appeared to be elderly and the other appeared to be in her 30s. They told the station that a man clutching a knife was walking down Market Street when he approached a bus stop, stabbed the women, and then walked away.</p>
<p>Police didn’t immediately indicate whether the women were specifically targeted or whether the attack might be a hate crime.</p>
<p>Asian Americans have been the target of several unprovoked attacks in the San Francisco Bay Area in recent months. </p>
<p>Prosecutors have filed assault and hate crime charges against a man accused of an attack last week in which he allegedly yelled racial slurs before knocking down Carl Chan, president of the Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce.</p>
<p>In separate San Francisco attacks in March, an 83-year-old Vietnamese man was knocked down and broke his neck in the fall, and a 77-year-old woman was similarly attacked. Police arrested a man for assault and elder abuse in both cases.</p>
<p>Another 83-year-old man was pushed down in February, broke a hip and spent weeks in the hospital and in rehabilitation.</p>
