LONDON (AP) \u2014 London police said Wednesday that a woman has been arrested after four people were stabbed in Covent Garden, a bustling area in the center of the capital that is full of attractions and popular with visitors.<\/p>\n
The Metropolitan Police said four men, aged 34, 39, 42, and 52 were found with stab wounds and that a 47-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon and assault. They said early indications suggest that it was a mental health-related incident and that scissors were recovered at the scene<\/p>\n
The injured were taken to a major trauma center following the incident early afternoon Wednesday in Endell Street. No further update has been given on the extent of their injuries.<\/p>\n
Emergency services gather near the scene on Endell Street in Covent Garden, central London, on Wednesday, August 5, 2026. ZUMAPRESS.com<\/p>\n
A 47-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon and assault. SWNS<\/p>\n
The injured have been taken to a major trauma center on nearby Endell Street on Wednesday afternoon following the incident. SWNS<\/p>\n
There is a significant police cordon around the scene of the incident.<\/p>\n
A London Ambulance Service spokesperson said the service treated four patients at the scene and took them all to a major trauma center by road.<\/p>\n
Police officers arrest a knife-wielding woman after four people were stabbed on Wednesday in Covent Garden, London. SWNS<\/p>\n
Police previously said that three people had been stabbed in the incident, but in a statement they later confirmed four people were found with stab wounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 London police said Wednesday that a woman has been arrested after four people were stabbed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[26],"tags":[2898,41389,61,173,27,33,12698,6,46],"class_list":["post-97973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-arrest","tag-arrests","tag-crime","tag-england","tag-london","tag-police","tag-stabbings","tag-united-kingdom","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/117043837359939464","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}