A man has been stabbed while performing a citizen's arrest, as bystanders tackled a man who was allegedly running through a shopping centre car park armed with a knife.

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The armed man was allegedly "acting erratically" as he ran through a car park on Lonsdale Street in Melbourne's CBD at 6am on November 6, police said.

Investigators were told that two bystanders saw the man and chased him south along Elizabeth Street, catching up with him at the corner of Lonsdale Street.

One of the bystanders, a 41-year-old man from Maddingley, was stabbed in the lower body while restraining the armed man, police said.

He was taken to the hospital with a n

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