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Police are searching four locations in their investigation into a series of stabbings in a County Tyrone village. | |
Four men in their 30s were taken to hospital after being attacked by a man at a convenience store in Caledon shortly before 1100 GMT. | |
One man is in a critical condition, one is serious, while the other two are said to be serious but stable. | |
Police said a man in his early 20s has been arrested and a 10-inch kitchen knife has been recovered. | |
The series of events began when a man entered the Mace convenience store on Main Street shortly before 1100 GMT. | |
I could see a man coming backwards down the street wielding a spade - following him, roaring and shouting, was a young man with a very large knife Tish MillarEyewitness He stabbed a shop fitter working there before running from the shop. | |
Another three men working nearby were also stabbed. | |
One victim is local, while the other three are tradesmen who were working in the village. | |
Eyewitness Tish Millar said she became aware of a disturbance when she heard shouting near her home. | |
"I could see a man coming backwards down the street wielding a spade - following him, roaring and shouting, was a young man with a very large knife," she said. | |
"He chased him round a tree, then eventually came back up the street again. | |
"In my humble opinion, he didn't know where he was or what he was doing - he looked as though he was totally and completely out of it." | |
The injured men were treated at the scene by doctors from the neighbouring village of Tynan, before being taken to Craigavon Area Hospital. | |
The hospital's lead consultant in emergency medicine, Seamus O'Reilly, said the men all had injuries to their backs. | |
"One man is critically ill, one is seriously ill and two are serious but stable," he said. | |
"They said they were working in the shop, setting up shelves, when an assailant came in and attacked them. | |
"They cannot understand why this should happen to them." |