ATTLEBORO -- Two suspects were arrested Tuesday in Rhode Island in connection with a stabbing of a 31-year-old city man Sunday night on Major Street.

Ronald D. Perez Rossi, 22, and Freiman D. Ruiz Portillo, 31, both of Providence, face charges of assault with intent to murder and assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon, according to police.

They are accused of stabbing Jorge Milian of Attleboro around 8:40 p.m. before Milian was able to run to a nearby house of flee his assailants, police said.