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A WOMAN HAS been arrested after four men were stabbed in the Covent Garden area of central London.<\/p>\n
Shortly before 12.30pm, police were called to reports of a stabbing on Endell Street, Covent Garden.<\/p>\n
Four men \u2013 aged 34, 39, 42, and 52 \u2013 were found with stab wounds and were assessed at the scene by paramedics before being taken to a major trauma centre.<\/p>\n
Two of the men remain in hospital with injuries that are not believed to be life-threatening or life-changing. The other two victims have been discharged.<\/p>\n
A 47-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon and assault.<\/p>\n
She remains in police custody.<\/p>\n
The Metropolitan Police in Camden have said that while the investigation is at an early stage, the incident is believed to be mental health related. Police added that officers seized a pair of scissors at the scene.<\/p>\n
Police remain in the area, with a cordon in place on Endell Street and the surrounding areas in Covent Garden.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, London Ambulance Service said it sent an ambulance crew, a paramedic in a fast response car and an incident response officer to the scene.<\/p>\n
It also dispatched London\u2019s Air Ambulance.<\/p>\n
In a statement, it said: \u201cWe treated four patients at the scene and took them all to a major trauma centre as a priority by road.\u201d<\/p>\n
Met Police chief superintendent Jason Stewart, who leads policing in the area, said: \u201cOfficers responded within minutes of this incident after receiving a number of reports.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile still at an early stage of the investigation, we would like to reassure the community that we currently believe this to be an isolated, mental-health related incident.<\/p>\n
\u201cA visible police presence will remain in the area while evidence is gathered at the scene and we thank the public for their understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAST UPDATE | 45 mins ago A WOMAN HAS been arrested after four men were stabbed in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,223538,159186,18,262772,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,130,15,16,36124,5,15495,7,8],"class_list":["post-622012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-central-london","tag-covent-garden","tag-eire","tag-endell-street","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-london","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-metropolitan-police","tag-news","tag-stabbing","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117043680699813692","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}