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| Four injured in village stabbings | Four injured in village stabbings |
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| Four people have been injured in a series of stabbings in a village in County Tyrone. | Four people have been injured in a series of stabbings in a village in County Tyrone. |
| Ambulances were called to Caledon at about 1040 GMT. Three men hurt in the incident have been described as being seriously ill. | Ambulances were called to Caledon at about 1040 GMT. Three men hurt in the incident have been described as being seriously ill. |
| Eyewitnesses said a man understood to be in his 20s attacked a person inside the village Mace store before going outside and stabbing three more people. | |
| A local man has been arrested and a knife has been recovered. | |
| Motorists have been asked to avoid the village which has been cordoned off. | Motorists have been asked to avoid the village which has been cordoned off. |
| One woman from Caledon said she had been in the village collecting a child from a playgroup. | |
| "The whole street was just completely blocked off. They wouldn't let any children walk up the street to come and meet their parents out of the school," she told the BBC. | |
| "The children are only three-years-old. | |
| "We all had to go along back roads to lift the children and they were escorted out the play group. | |
| "It is very worrying when you have a child in a play group and there is somebody going about stabbing people." |