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HADERA, Israel (Reuters) – At least six people were wounded, two of them seriously, in a stabbing attack in the Israeli city of Hadera on Wednesday, Israeli authorities said. “The terrorist has been neutralized,” police said in a statement. “Four separate locations have been identified, resulting in six victims with stab wounds.” The police did not immediately provide other details, but issued a brief video of the suspected attacker being apprehended. Of the six people […]
By Matthias Inverardi, Petra Wischgoll and Tom Sims SOLINGEN, Germany (Reuters) -A man suspected of a stabbing rampage in the western German town of Solingen has been taken into police custody, a state official told German television on Saturday, some 24 hours after the attack that killed three people. North Rhine-Westphalia’s interior minister Herbert Reul told the ARD broadcaster that he was “a bit relieved” after authorities spent the day following a “hot lead” that […]
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian police said on Sunday that four people including a police officer were injured in a mass stabbing in Sydney, the latest in a series of stabbing attacks in the city this year. Police said in a statement on Sunday morning that four people were “injured following a crash and suspected stabbing a short time ago”. “There is definitely an incident in Engadine,” a police spokesperson said, referring to a suburb in […]
LONDON (Reuters) -British emergency services said a man had been arrested after at least eight people were stabbed in Southport, northwest England, on Monday, with a local children’s hospital declaring a major incident and the prime minister calling it “deeply shocking”. North West Ambulance Service said it had treated eight patients with stab injuries who had been taken to three different hospitals, including Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. Merseyside Police said armed police had arrested a […]
SYDNEY, May 5, 2024 (AFP) – Western Australian police shot and killed a “radicalised” 16-year-old boy with a knife who had stabbed a man in a Perth car park, police and the state premier said Sunday. The teenager “rushed” at police who responded by shooting him twice with Tasers before firing a single fatal shot, they said. “There are indications he had been radicalised online. But I want to reassure the community at this stage […]
LONDON, May 1, 2024 (AFP) – A 17-year-old boy was arrested on Wednesday for attempted murder after three people were injured in an apparent stabbing at a school in northern England, police said, days after a similar incident in Wales. The boy was detained following reports of three people being injured at Birley Community College in Sheffield, South Yorkshire Police said. Officers responded to reports of an incident “involving a sharp object” at around 8:50 […]
By Adrian DENNIS HAINAULT, United Kingdom, April 30, 2024 (AFP) – A 14-year-old boy died on Tuesday after a man wielding a sword stabbed the youth, two police and two other people, in a street attack in east London, police said. The man used what appeared to be a Samurai-type sword in the Hainault district shortly before 7:00 am (0600 GMT). Police said they arrested a 36-year-old man using Taser stun weapons and took him […]
LONDON, April 24, 2024 (AFP) – A teenage girl was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after two teachers and a pupil were stabbed at a secondary school in Wales on Wednesday, police said. The attack occurred at the Amman Valley School about 60 miles (96 kilometres) northwest of Cardiff just before midday. Two air ambulances and a number of police vehicles were seen at the school. “Three people — two teachers and a teenage […]
By David WILLIAMS SYDNEY, April 21, 2024 (AFP) – No one can know the mind of Sydney shopping mall killer Joel Cauchi, but psychiatrists say one underlying cause of his rampage is evident: he had schizophrenia, stopped his medication and fell out of treatment. People have searched for a fathomable motive since the April 13 knife attack at Bondi Junction, in which five women and a male security guard were stabbed to death and another […]
SYDNEY, April 15, 2024 (AFP) – Australian police on Tuesday said a brutal live-streamed knife attack at a church service in Sydney was a religiously motivated “terrorist” act, as they urged calm from the angered local community. Two people were stabbed when a 16-year-old suspect rushed the dais at an Assyrian church in western Sydney late Monday, slashing wildly at the bishop who was giving a sermon. The teen was immediately subdued by outraged congregants […]
SYDNEY, April 15, 2024 (AFP) – Four people are being treated for “non-life threatening injuries” after a stabbing at a church service in Sydney on Monday, emergency services said. Australian police said they had arrested one man. The incident came two days after a man with a knife killed six at a shopping mall in the east of the city. A video stream showed Monday’s gruesome attack at an Assyrian church unfold in real time. […]
By David WILLIAMS SYDNEY, April 14, 2024 (AFP) – In the midst of a Sydney mall stabbing rampage, witnesses say a fatally wounded mother handed over her injured nine-month-old baby to a stranger to save the infant’s life. Stories of courage are still emerging from Saturday’s attack, in which a 40-year-old knifeman with mental illness roamed the packed shopping centre, killing six people and seriously wounding a dozen others. Lone senior police officer Amy Scott […]
