A woman has been arrested after four people were stabbed in London’s Covent Garden on Wednesday, the Metropolitan Police said.
The Met said that officers were called to the scene of a suspected stabbing on Endell Street near the popular shopping area of Covent Garden in the British capital at around 12:29 pm local time on Wednesday.
UPDATE 1810:A witness to the aftermath of Wednesday’s stabbing told Sky News that he saw a “standoff” between police officers and a woman who looked “quite old” with short hair.
“She didn’t seem to be particularly coherent,” the witness said. “She was pretty incoherent in what she was shouting; the officer was asking what language she was shouting.”
Meanwhile, police have said that all four alleged victims have been released from the hospital without life-altering injuries.
UPDATE 1620: The Metropolitan Police force has said that it recovered a pair of scissors from the scene of a stabbing in Covent Garden on Wednesday, Sky News reported. The force added that while the investigation is still ongoing, it is believed that mental health may have been a factor. No further information has been released about the 47-year-old female suspect at the time of this reporting.
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According to Sky News, the four victims were aged 34, 39, 42, and 45 years old.
A 47-year-old woman was arrested on the scene on suspicion of possessing an offensive weapon and assault.
The four victims were later taken to a major trauma centre, London’s Ambulance Service said in a statement.
A spokesman for the service said: “We sent an ambulance crew, a paramedic in a fast response car and an incident response officer,” a spokesperson said.
“We also dispatched London’s Air Ambulance. We treated four patients at the scene and took them all to a major trauma centre as a priority by road.”
This story is developing, more to follow…
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