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Man arrested after multiple stabbings in London supermarket car park Four women stabbed in Sainsbury's car park in west London
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A man in his 60s has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after three women were stabbed in a Sainsbury’s car park in west London on Friday morning. A woman has been taken by air ambulance to hospital after a multiple stabbing in west London.
None of the women had suffered life-threatening injuries, according to police, but one local media report claimed that one woman was taken to hospital in an air ambulance after paramedics arrived at the scene. Police arrested a man in his 60s on suspicion of attempted murder on Friday morning after four women were found with knife wounds after the attack, which took place in a Sainsbury’s car park and a nearby house.
Police said the suspect was subdued with the threat of a Taser, although the device was not discharged during the arrest. A Metropolitan police spokesperson said none of the women had suffered life-threatening injuries, but all were taken to hospital, including one who was taken by helicopter to a central London trauma centre.
Officers attended the scene on The Avenue in Hampton, on the suburban edge of Richmond-upon-Thames, after receiving a call at 10.35am that a man was carrying a knife, the Metropolitan police said. The incident was not thought to be terror-related, the Met said.
They found three injured women, whose ages are not yet know, at the scene. A fourth victim was found in a nearby property. A staff member from the nearby Hampton pub said it was a “completely unprovoked” attack.
A spokesman for the London ambulance service told the Richmond and Twickenham Times that four women were treated for stab wounds to the chest, legs and back. “He only went for the women. The man ran through and started attacking them. It didn’t seem like they knew him,” the worker said. “He was caught very quickly just outside the car park. He appeared to be out of it, on drugs or crazy.”
Three were taken by ambulance to a south London hospital. The fourth was taken “as a priority” to a central London trauma centre. Police said the suspect was subdued with the threat of a Taser, although the device was not discharged.
Officers attended the scene on The Avenue in Hampton, on the suburban edge of Richmond-upon-Thames, after receiving a call that a man was carrying a knife, the Metropolitan police said.
A spokesman for the London ambulance service said they sent paramedics and an air ambulance to the scene after receiving a call at 10.38am.
“We treated four women at the scene for various stab wounds, including to the chest, legs and back,” the spokesman said. “We took three women as a priority by road ambulance to a major trauma centre in south London. The air ambulance took the other woman as a priority to another major trauma centre in central London.”