Taylor Swift ‘in shock’ after 3 kids die in stabbing at Swift-themed dance class

A stabbing attack astatine a Taylor Swift-themed creation and yoga people successful England has claimed nan life of different kid aft a nine-year-old woman died from her injuries Tuesday, bringing nan decease toll up to three.

Eight different children and 2 adults are still successful nan hospital, pinch respective of them successful captious condition. The 2 different children who died were girls ages six and seven, Merseyside Police said.

Police are questioning a 17-year-old fishy who was arrested minutes aft nan Monday onslaught successful Southport.

Taylor Swift wrote successful an Instagram story Tuesday that she was “completely successful shock” astatine nan “horror of yesterday’s attack.”

“These were conscionable small kids astatine a creation class. I americium astatine a complete nonaccomplishment for really to ever convey my sympathies to these families,” she wrote.

Witnesses described scenes “from a scary movie” arsenic bloodied children ran from nan onslaught conscionable earlier noon connected Monday.

“They were successful nan road, moving from nan nursery,” said Bare Varathan, who owns a shop nearby. “They had been stabbed, here, here, here, everywhere,” he said, indicating nan neck, backmost and chest.

Jonathan Hayes, a section businessman, was stabbed successful nan limb aft he heard screams from his agency and ran into nan creation workplace to protect nan children, the Telegraph reports.

“Our agency is successful nan aforesaid building arsenic nan creation studio. He heard screams and went outside, saw nan attacker, saw that he had wounded a kid and tried to return nan weapon disconnected him and sewage stabbed successful nan leg,” Haye’s woman Helen told nan paper.

“He’s very upset that he wasn’t capable to beryllium much help. Physically he will beryllium OK, mentally I don’t know,” she added.

Shortly aft nan attack, constabulary arrested a fishy connected suspicion of execution and attempted execution and seized a knife. Police said he was calved successful Cardiff, Wales, and had lived for years successful a colony astir 5 kilometres from Southport. He has not yet been charged.

Police said detectives are not treating Monday’s onslaught arsenic terror-related and they are not looking for immoderate different suspects.

Local group near flowers and stuffed animals successful tribute astatine a constabulary cordon connected nan thoroughfare lined pinch ceramic houses successful nan seaside edifice adjacent Liverpool — nicknamed “sunny Southport” — whose formation and pier pull vacationers from crossed northwest England.

It is nan latest shocking onslaught successful a state where a caller emergence successful weapon crime has stoked anxieties and led to calls for nan authorities to do much to clamp down connected bladed weapons, which are by acold nan astir commonly utilized instruments successful U.K. homicides.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer called nan onslaught “horrendous and profoundly shocking.”

King Charles III sent his “condolences, prayers and deepest sympathies” to those affected by nan “utterly horrific incident.”

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Prince William and his woman Catherine said Monday that “as parents, we cannot statesman to ideate what nan families, friends and loved ones of those killed and injured successful Southport coming are going through.”

Colin Parry, who owns a adjacent car assemblage shop, told The Guardian that nan fishy arrived by taxi.

“He came down our driveway successful a taxi and didn’t salary for nan taxi, truthful I confronted him astatine that point,” Parry was quoted arsenic saying. “He was rather aggressive, he said, ‘What are you gonna do astir it?’”

Parry said astir of nan victims appeared to beryllium young girls.

“The mothers are coming present now and screaming,” Parry said. “It is for illustration a segment from a scary movie. … It’s for illustration thing from America, not for illustration sunny Southport.”

Britain’s worst onslaught connected children occurred successful 1996, erstwhile 43-year-old Thomas Hamilton changeable 16 kindergarteners and their coach dormant successful a schoolhouse gymnasium successful Dunblane, Scotland. The U.K. subsequently banned nan backstage ownership of almost each handguns.

Mass shootings and killings pinch firearms are uncommon successful Britain, wherever knives were utilized successful astir 40 per cent of homicides successful nan twelvemonth to March 2023.

Although wide stabbings are besides rare, respective successful caller years person generated fearfulness and outrage and received a tremendous magnitude of attention.

In April, a man pinch a beard killed a 14-year-old boy stepping to schoolhouse successful London and earnestly injured 4 different people, including 2 constabulary officers.

In Nottingham successful cardinal England successful June 2022, a paranoid schizophrenic man fatally stabbed 2 assemblage students walking location from celebrating nan extremity of nan schoolhouse twelvemonth and past killed a 65-year-old man, stole his van and utilized it to deed 3 pedestrians.

In Reading, westbound of London, successful June 2020, a grounded Libyan asylum seeker fatally stabbed 3 men and wounded 3 others.

— With files from The Associated Press and Reuters