2 People Stabbed in London’s Leicester Square

Two people were stabbed in London’s Leicester Square, a tourist hot spot, today, according to police report. 

A girl, 11, and a woman, 34, were attacked in the often-crowded area of the city center. None of them suffered life-threatening injuries.

The police added that “there is no suggestion that the incident is terror-related.”

A man was arrested and was in custody, and the police said they did not believe there were any additional suspects.

This is coming exactly two weeks after a deadly knife attack in Southport, near Liverpool, that led to the death of three young girls and injured eight other children and two adults. In the days after the stabbings in Southport, false information about the identity of the attacker, including that he was an undocumented migrant, spread rapidly online and ignited a series of violent riots around Britain.

In Leicester Square, an area in front of a shop called TWG Tea was cordoned off by blue and white police tape at 1:30 p.m., with a handful of police officers positioned at the scene. There were visible blood stains and a discarded baseball cap in the cordoned-off zone.

A man working as a security guard at the tea shop said he witnessed the attack and stepped in after a young girl and a woman, whom he assumed to be her mother, were injured. Police officers then took the witness away for further questioning.

Even two hours after the attack, hundreds of tourists were still gathered in the square. Shoppers at the Lego and M&M’s stores, both known for their long lines, were straining to see what was going on as a helicopter circled above.