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Two children have been killed and nine injured in a knife rampage targeting a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in a town in northern England on Monday, with a teenage suspect arrested over an attack one witness described as a \u201chorror movie\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Merseyside Police\u2019s Chief Constable Serena Kennedy said six of the injured children are in critical condition and the attack also left two adults in critical condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kennedy said that the police understands the attacker walked into the premises armed with a knife and started to attack the children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe believe that the adults who were injured were bravely trying to protect the children who were being attacked,\u201d she said at a news conference on Monday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Merseyside Police said it received reports of a stabbing in Southport, north of Liverpool. Emergency services were called to a \u201cmajor incident\u201d in the town at around 11:50 a.m. local time (6:50aET). A 17-year-old boy was arrested at the scene on \u201csuspicion of murder and attempted murder.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe investigation is in its early stages and the motivation for the incident remains unclear. However Counterterrorism Police Northwest have offered their support,\u201d Kennedy said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The police said earlier the incident was not treated as terror-related.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
CNN \u2014 Two children have been killed and nine injured in a knife rampage targeting a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in a town in northern England on Monday, with a teenage suspect arrested over an attack one witness described as a \u201chorror movie\u201d. Merseyside Police\u2019s Chief Constable Serena Kennedy said six of the injured children are in critical condition and the attack also left two adults in critical condition. Kennedy said that the police understands the attacker walked into the premises armed with a knife and started to attack the children. \u201cWe believe that the adults who were injured were bravely… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41038,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41036\/revisions\/41038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}