UK Knife Attack Targets Children’s Party, Multiple Casualties

Knife Attack Targets Children’s Party, Multiple Casualties

Two children were murdered and several others injured during a mass stabbing attack at a children’s center in Merseyside, England, that was hosting a child’s Taylor Swift-themed dance party.

Police arrived at the scene of the crime, a children’s center on Hart Street in Southport, at 11:47 a.m. on Monday after receiving a call that a knife-wielding criminal had carried out an attack at the summer holiday party for kids.

It was initially reported that one child was killed during the attack, but a press conference from Merseyside Police chief Constable Serena Kennedy revealed that as of Monday evening, two children had died from stab wounds. Nine other children were injured, with six still in critical condition as of Monday evening.

The police chief praised two adults who had been injured during the attack, as their injuries happened while they were “bravely trying to protect the children.”

She noted during the press conference that law enforcement on the scene “were shocked to find that multiple people, many of whom were children, had been subjected to a ferocious attack and had suffered serious injuries.”

“It is understood that the children were attending a Taylor Swift event at a dance school when the offender, armed with a knife, walked into the premises and started to attack the children. We believe that the adults who were injured were bravely trying to protect the children who were being attacked,” Kennedy continued, claiming: “the investigation is in its early stages and the motivation for the incident remains unclear, however, counter-terrorism police Northwest have offered their support to Merseyside Police as the full circumstances of what had happened are being established. At this moment in time the investigation is not being treated as terrorist-related.”

It is unclear who perpetrated the attack, although comments from police follow a similar pattern of refusal to acknowledge crimes committed by migrants or the children of migrants. Merseyside Police reported that they had charged a 17-year-old male suspect “originally from Cardiff” with murder and attempted murder. Typically, the woke government of the U.K. refuses to identify the race or other identifying characteristics about the suspect when they are not white Europeans. If the criminal was a Muslim migrant or the child of a Muslim migrant, the police typically report the name of the city the migrant currently resides in, or simply say “South Asian.”

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