A CHINESE woman, in her 20s, suffered multiple injuries after she was stabbed by another woman in Teban Gardens on Tuesday morning.

Police have arrested a woman in her 30s, who is believed to have slashed the younger woman with a chopper in a three-room flat in Block 4, Teban Gardens Road.

Neighbours said the China woman ran out of the second-storey flat bleeding profusely from her head and crying 'Help! Help!' in Mandarin.

Police, who received a call at 9.10am about the incident, said she was rushed to National University Hospital for an emergency operation.

A neighbour told Shin Min Daily that the woman was bleeding from her head and upper body and her clothes were soaked through with blood. 'She was screaming for help. It was a very scary sight,' she told Shin Min.

The suspect is said to be a Filippina, who lives in the flat with her ex-husband, a lorry driver, even though they have been divorced. The couple have a daughter.

The slashed victim, described as 'fair and attractive with shoulder-length hair', is identified as Miss Chen Miao Fen, from Fujian, China.

Speaking to The Straits Times at NUH on Tuesday afternoon, Miss Chen's friend, Mr Sun Shou Qiang, 23, a cement factory worker, said he received a frantic call from the victim as she was on the way to hospital in the ambulance.

'She told me: 'I'm bleeding and I've lost a lot of blood. I don't know what will happen to me. I am very scared.'

Mr Sun, who is from Jilin, said he has known Miss Chen for about six months through her brother, who used to rent a room in the Teban Gardens flat, which she is now sharing with two other Chinese women.

The brother has returned to China. All three women are working at a circuit board manfacturing factory. Miss Chen's two flatmates were at work when the attack took place.

Asked if there was a relationship between Miss Chen and the landlord, Mr Sun said: 'It is not possible. She has a boyfriend in China.'