A resident of San Francisco's Chinatown was rushed to an area hospital with life-threatening injuries Monday, after an altercation with a neighbor turned violent.

Police say that the fight began at around 11:30 a.m. Monday, when the 63-year-old female victim was washing dishes in the common area of a building on the 800 block of Clay Street, which is between Stockton and Grant Streets.

According to the San Francisco Police Department, her 67-year-old neighbor suddenly approached her from behind, and "grabbed her."

As the two women wrestled, the aggressor hit the victim with an "unknown metal object" that was later identified as the handle to a frying pan, police say.

The suspect also "jumped on" the woman, hit her "repeatedly," and choked the victim causing her "to pass out for [an] unknown period of time."

Following the attack, the victim was transported to San Francisco General Hospital, for treatment of injuries police say are life-threatening. The suspect was taken into custody, police say, and was booked into San Francisco County Jail.