Southport stabbings: Boy, 17, arrested after children killed in stabbings
Tragedy struck a Taylor Swift-themed dance and yoga class in Southport, England, where a horrific stabbing rampage by a teenager resulted in the death of two children and left 11 others injured.
Witnesses described the scene as resembling a “horror movie,” with bloodied children fleeing in panic from the venue to escape the assailant’s savage attack on Monday. Witnesses described hearing blood-curdling screams and seeing children covered in blood emerging from the business that hosts everything from pregnancy workshops and meditation sessions to women’s boot camps.
A 17-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder in the stabbing in Southport, a seaside town near Liverpool, Merseyside Police said.
The motive was not clear, but police said detectives were not treating the attack as terror-related.
Nine children were wounded — six of them in critical condition — in the latest headline-grabbing attack amid a recent rise in knife crime that has stoked anxieties and led to calls for the government to do more to clamp down on bladed weapons.
Two wounded adults who tried to shield the pupils were in critical condition, police said.
“We believe the adults who were injured were bravely trying to protect the children who were being attacked,” Merseyside Police Chief Constable Serena Kennedy said.
The Taylor Swift-themed workshop was held on the first week of school vacation for children aged about 6 to 11. The two-hour session was led by two women — a yoga instructor and a dance instructor — according to an online listing.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer called the attack “horrendous and deeply shocking.” King Charles III sent his “condolences, prayers, and deepest sympathies” to those affected by the “utterly horrific incident.”
Police were called shortly before noon to a street where several small businesses are located behind rows of brick houses in the city of about 100,000.
The first officers who arrived were shocked to find so many casualties from the “ferocious attack,” most of them children with serious injuries.
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He is juvenile & should be let free. UK is totally unislamic & should learn from Porkistan & Palestines. Time for UK to change its laws & release the young kid who is brainwashed by porn movies & barely dressed models flashed on news websites & public meda, which has bad effect on the young fertile minds. The juvenile boy to be counselled & team of psychologists to be assinged to study & bring him back to civil society by giving him good food & care with extra $ $ $ allowances (incentives) = to kill more in future when he grows up, for UK society is living & breathing agains Allah & Islamic values
He is juvenile & should be let free. UK is totally unislamic & should learn from Porkistan & Palestines. Time for UK to change its laws & release the young kid who is brainwashed by porn movies & barely dressed models flashed on news websites & public meda, which has bad effect on the young fertile minds. The juvenile boy to be counselled & team of psychologists to be assinged to study & bring him back to civil society by giving him good food & care with extra $ $ $ allowances (incentives) = to kill more in future when he grows up.