Video footage shows the dramatic moment a house was raided in Southport by armed police following a horrific mass stabbing.
It follows the death of two children in a knife attack in Southport on Monday, which left nine other children injured. Merseyside Police confirmed a 17-year-old boy has been arrested.
The teenager, from the village of Banks, and originally from Cardiff, is currently being questioned on suspicion of murder and attempted murder. Police were called to an address in Hart Street behind which is The Hart Space studios, where children were taking part in a Taylor Swift-inspired dance class.
ITV UK Editor Paul Brand wrote on Twitter: “The scene of the attacks is around a 15-minute drive from this location.
“Armed police arrived around two hours later to raid the house.”
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Police confirmed everyone’s worst fears ealier this evening when they revealed two children tragically lost their lives and six others were battling for survival following a horrific stabbing incident at a Taylor Swift themed dance workshop.
In a harrowing press conference, police revealed that two brave adults who attempted to intervene were left with severe injuries and are both in critical condition. Harrowing details from the scene describe a mother screaming “my daughter’s been stabbed.”
A local resident described hearing a woman’s screams and rushing outside to find a young mother and her approximately 10 year old daughter, both covered in blood. Deborah Parker, 57, who resides a few hundred yards from the centre, discovered the pair in a car near her home.
She recounted: “It had only just happened. I was opening the windows downstairs and a police car sped past. The lady was parked on the corner screaming ‘help me, help me’. Of course I ran over, she was covered in blood, the mum. Her daughter was slumped in the passenger seat.”
“She had gone to the children’s club to pick her up and she came out saying ‘mum, I’ve been stabbed’. Her mother had bundled her in the car and just sped away because she did not know what was happening. She stopped here, I was saying ‘how has this happened’ and she didn’t know because her daughter couldn’t speak. All she could say was she had been stabbed.”
Detectives released an update on the motive for the horrific attacks this afternoon and police gave further details on who was arrested. Officers say the stabbings aren’t currently being treated as terror-related and that the suspect is a 17-year-old who was born in Cardiff but lived in Banks, Lancashire. Police were seen searching a house in Banks shortly before his arrest was made public.
