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| Four women stabbed in Sainsbury's car park in south-west London | Four women stabbed in Sainsbury's car park in south-west London |
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| A woman has been taken by air ambulance to hospital with injuries that are thought to be life-threatening after a multiple stabbing in south-west London. | A woman has been taken by air ambulance to hospital with injuries that are thought to be life-threatening after a multiple stabbing in south-west London. |
| Police arrested a man in his 60s on suspicion of attempted murder on Friday morning after four women were found with knife wounds following the attack in the car park of a Sainsbury’s supermarket in Hampton. | |
| Three of the victims were taken by ambulance to hospital, but the most critically injured was airlifted to a central London trauma centre. | Three of the victims were taken by ambulance to hospital, but the most critically injured was airlifted to a central London trauma centre. |
| The incident was not thought to be terror-related, the Met said. | The incident was not thought to be terror-related, the Met said. |
| A staff member from the nearby Hampton pub said it was a “completely unprovoked” attack. | A staff member from the nearby Hampton pub said it was a “completely unprovoked” attack. |
| “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. | “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. |
| “The woman who was badly stabbed in the back made it up to the police station and raised the alarm. She is well-known locally and goes shopping there all the time.” | “The woman who was badly stabbed in the back made it up to the police station and raised the alarm. She is well-known locally and goes shopping there all the time.” |
| Police said the suspect was subdued by the threat of a Taser, although the device was not discharged. | Police said the suspect was subdued by the threat of a Taser, although the device was not discharged. |
| Bloodstains could be seen outside a local police branch, where one of the women who had been stabbed was said to have dragged herself before raising the alarm. A medical kit which appeared to have been used, as well what appeared to be a police hat, lay on the ground, the area around which had been taped off. | |
| Ben Brady, 30, who owns Jen’s Salon next door to where one of the victims was treated, said the first victim was stabbed by the pub before the attacker moved on to another area of the car park. “She had no idea what was going on,” he added. | |
| Brady said the man was “waving a knife” and then approached women as they were getting out of their cars. “I went over to see if I could help the ladies and that’s when the police came,” he said. | |
| Matthew Bentley, who lives around the corner from the car park, said: “I was in my house in the garden and the air ambulance came and landed and I thought it could be one of the kids in the school around the corner. One of mine goes there. | |
| “It was all taped off, with the police and the ambulance crews. I walked into the car park as they were taping it off and I see one of the neighbours that we knew and someone that we know, their relatives or their mum, had been stabbed.” | |
| A witness described the scene as horrific and said she had seen the victims lying on the floor bleeding. She told ITV London: “I could see bodies lying on the ground. There was an elderly lady just lying down beside the police station. I tried to help. She had the police there and paramedics. | |
| “I could see this poor lady with blood coming out of all different parts of her body.” | |
| She said one of the victims was her neighbour, and added: “She was stabbed three times in the chest, back and arm.” | |
| Officers attended the scene on The Avenue in Hampton, on the edge of Richmond-upon-Thames, after receiving a call that a man was carrying a knife, the Metropolitan police said. | Officers attended the scene on The Avenue in Hampton, on the edge of Richmond-upon-Thames, after receiving a call that a man was carrying a knife, the Metropolitan police said. |
| A spokesman said: “Officers attended and discovered three women suffering from knife wounds. The London ambulance service also attended and is providing treatment to the women. Their conditions are not thought to be life-threatening or changing at this time. | |
| “A fourth woman who had also suffered knife wounds was subsequently located at a nearby property. She has been taken to hospital where her condition at this stage is thought to be life-threatening.” | “A fourth woman who had also suffered knife wounds was subsequently located at a nearby property. She has been taken to hospital where her condition at this stage is thought to be life-threatening.” |
| A spokesman for the London ambulance service said it had 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.” | “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.” |