A third child has died in a mass stabbing attack at a Taylor Swift-themed children’s party in Southport, England, allegedly committed by a knife-wielding man from a Rwandan refugee family.
Musician Taylor Swift has responded horrified to a mass stabbing attack in the UK involving children attending her music-themed summer holiday dance workshops at a community centre in Southport, near Liverpool, northeast England.
Swift posted on social media that she was struggling with how to express her condolences to the victims’ families.
The horror of yesterday’s attack in Southport continues to wash over me and I am in complete shock… Lives and innocent people lost and it has caused terrible trauma to all who were there, families and emergency workers. These were young children attending dance classes. I have no idea how to convey my sympathies to these families.
Police were called to a community centre in the seaside town of Southport, Merseyside, just before midday on Monday following reports of a knife attack. Officers were horrified to find “several people, many of whom are children, having suffered serious injuries following a vicious attack,” as the local police chief said at a press conference on Monday night.
Over the course of Monday, the death toll from the attack rose from one to two and sadly on Tuesday morning Merseyside Police announced that a third child had died from their injuries – three girls aged six, seven and nine.
Eight other children were injured, five of them in serious, life-threatening conditions, and two adults were also injured, with police praising them for trying to fight off the attacker. The Daily Telegraph These adults 35 year old dance teacher Leanne Lucas and 63-year-old businessman Jonathan Hayes were among those seriously injured. Mr Hayes’ wife said he ran into the dance studio to try and stop the attack, putting himself between the knife-wielding man and the children.
she report “Our office is in the same building as the dance studio. We heard screaming, went outside and saw the perpetrator hurting a child, then he tried to grab the knife and was stabbed in the leg.”
Police are in custody of a 17-year-old male who was arrested at a house near Banks Village shortly after the attack. The suspect cannot be named under UK law because he is a minor. report by Times He was born to Rwandan parents who fled the Rwandan genocide in the UK. The suspect is said to have been born in Wales and moved to the Merseyside area as a child.
Police said counter-terrorism police were assisting with the investigation and that while a motive for the attack has not been made public, they do not currently believe the attack to be terrorism-related.
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