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my name is| dave kitchin, and on behalf of north west ambulance service, we would like to _ west ambulanceamilies who have tragically lost loved ones today and the wider— tragically lost loved ones today and the wider committee. 0ur tragically lost loved ones today and the wider committee. our thoughts are with _ the wider committee. our thoughts are with you. i can confirm we were called _ are with you. i can confirm we were called to— are with you. i can confirm we were called to the — are with you. i can confirm we were called to the park street area in southportjust before called to the park street area in southport just before lunchtime today _ southport just before lunchtime today to — southport just before lunchtime today to an incident of reported muttipte — today to an incident of reported multiple stabbings. we declared this as a major— multiple stabbings. we declared this as a major incident due to the number— as a major incident due to the number of— as a major incident due to the number of casualties any types of the injuries sustained. a substantial number of banks and specia

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so again , that's a north west again, that's a north west ambulance service. hart street, southport, following reports of multiple stabbings in which we have dispatched multiple resources , north west ambulance resources, north west ambulance service says they're assessing the situation, working with emergency partners. >> so, mark, returning just to that question of , of motivation that question of, of motivation for a second, that even if an individual is known to the, to the, to the authorities in some way beforehand, with such a low tech , attack, it is, of course, tech, attack, it is, of course, still very difficult to intercept such an attack before it happens , it happens, >> yes, it is , because, we don't >> yes, it is, because, we don't know how far down the road to radicalisation or extremism and violent extremism. someone has gone. they can associate with other extremists , as as people other extremists, as as people often do. but there are thousands of individuals who are on the police and security services radar in terms of extremists. and it's im

the north west ambulance service said they deployed 13 ambulances, an air ambulance and also some doctorso deal with special, large casualty incidents. what north west and service also said is that they had taken casualties to three different hospitals including alder hey children's hospital and certainly eyewitnesses suggested to us that among those who were badly injured during the stabbing, more than one child. it looks as if there were several children caught up in this stabbing and certainly alder hey children's hospital has talked about being very, very busy as a result of this major incident and asking people not to come to their accident and emergency department unless they really need to because they are incredibly busy from this southport incident and you can imagine with an air appearance deployed and 13 ambulances and possibly eight people —— an air ambulance deployed. you could have had multiple casualties arriving at alder hey children's hospital from hart street within an hour or so of the incident having happened. the police clearly, you can see them at the scene on the pi

that informationjust in from the north information just in from the north west ambulance service.d at the scene so far and taken to hospitals, including alder hey children's hospital. of course, it is the school holidays and we can see from the picture and limit the number of people out on the streets and the fact that they were be lots of children around. exactly. almost all schools will have broken up last week and it will be the beginning of the holidays for many people so it wouldn't have been a quiet sleepy street as many are during school time. this will have been a busy streets just before midday on a summer's day. you can see the weather is beautiful there today. people are out in shorts and t—shirt, so when this horrible incident started, people would have been very aware of it and you can see children there on the streets in their summer holiday clothing. i'm afraid been absolutely terrified of this incident which started at about 11:50am. they confirmed that about 11:58am about casualties and discredit a major incident that i declared it a major incident. a man is curre

have at least eight people having been treated with stab wounds, that were seen by north west ambulance serviceent 13 ambulances, an air ambulance service who sent 13 ambulances, an airambulance and service who sent 13 ambulances, an air ambulance and specialist doctors to the scene and then have taken patients to three different hospitals including the alder hey children's hospital which obviously makes it clear that there were children among those who were seriously injured in this incident. the police have detained a man, they have seized a knife. they believe the situation is under control and there is no wider threat to the public but this will have been an absolutely shocking and deeply distressing thing to have happened just before midday on the first monday of the summer holidays on a glorious sunny day in southport. i was in southport only a couple of months ago myself, it has a glorious stretch of beach overlooking the irish sea there just at the mouth of the river mersey. it is a stunning seaside location, a very, very popular pleasure beach, as it were, in that part of the world so

specialist team from aintree responding to assist our colleagues from merseyside police and north west ambulance service who were deaung ambulance service who were dealing with a traumatic and understandably chaotic scene . understandably chaotic scene. the crews were trauma trained and worked alongside their colleagues to provide trauma care , administer first aid and care, administer first aid and undertake a wide area search for any other persons affected by this incident. my firefighters, many of whom live in this community, will be appalled by this act, but they will be back on the streets of southport tomorrow to provide reassurance , tomorrow to provide reassurance, kindness and support. the tomorrow to provide reassurance, kindness and support . the crews kindness and support. the crews themselves were stood down at 4:18 pm. this afternoon . okay. >> good evening. i'm martin daubney. this is gbn tonight . daubney. this is gbn tonight. that was a press conference there in southport. that was chief constable serena kennedy opened proceedings. confirming a 17 year old living in banks, originally fr

we heard from dave kitchen , who's from from dave kitchen, who's from the north west ambulance servicethat this is going to have a lasting impact on the community. whenever there is an event of this sort of a scale, it really cuts to the core of a community. when it's children involved. and as we hear now, some are critical, but two have died. it gets to the heart of the community in a way that very few other news stories do. we're about 300m away from hart street, where this knife attack took place. about what, seven, almost eight hours ago now. earlier today, about 10 to 12, that police were called here and it was a horrific scene of devastation , children being devastation, children being pulled out of the house. now, we know after from the press release that we just the press conference that we just heard that it was certainly children who were attacked with knives and at least two of them have died today, from where we've been watching, you could see that the forensics teams have been going in and out. we're quite a far way away, so we haven't really been able to see what they wer

i think at the press conference yesterday by the north west ambulance service and the chief constablend places to land and people with children and those two adults in critical condition transported to hospitals across the north west, but the impact on facing that when they go to work and try and save those young people, those children is huge. and people i have spoken to, they have held their own makeshift videos for them overnight. i was reading a poem just on other side of the road just called hope, written by i was speaking to the wife of the guy who wrote it, and she said he just wanted to write this poem, handwritten for the families to try and give them some kind of hope for those fighting for their lives in hospital and also for this community. aha, hospital and also for this community-— hospital and also for this communi .�* , ., ., community. a question that everyone is askin: community. a question that everyone is asking is. — community. a question that everyone is asking is. why? _ community. a question that everyone is asking is, why? what _ community. a question that eve

we are waiting on more information though, from merseyside police as well as the local ambulance service, north wests merseyside fire and rescue service. and in just a few moments time, maybe five minutes, we will be crossing over to that press conference where we can probably learn quite a little bit more about what's happened here today. >> well, thank you very much for that , ladies >> well, thank you very much for that, ladies and gents at home as well as just mentioned , that as well as just mentioned, that press conference by the police will be starting imminently. 630 is the time that we have been given. we're watching that room as we speak, and i promise you, we will be going straight to, in fact, you know what? let's let you look at that room as well. and what i'm going to do is i'm going to talk over, i think, as a parent, and i just mentioned earlier, you don't even need to be a parent. this story stopped me in my tracks. the thought that anybody, can hurt children, tiny, innocent, vulnerable children in this way is absolutely devastating. so this is the room that you can see now. we are

now, alder hey, the police service here in merseyside, as well as north west ambulance service have allwell from the prime minister keir starmer, as well as the home secretary , yvette as the home secretary, yvette coopen as the home secretary, yvette cooper, describing their horror as well as supporting the work of the police force and the emergency services. and what we found out not too long ago, there were early indications and suspicions that this was some sort of a day—care centre, but other reports have said that it was a dance school, a summer houday was a dance school, a summer holiday event where children were spending time enjoying their company with other people. but the last thing that we've heard, the most recent thing, is that a 17 year old has been arrested . arrested. >> thank you, will hollis, for that update . just confirmed that update. just confirmed you're joining us, a 17 year old has been arrested in conjunction with that attack. earlier on in southport. and this is not presently being treated as a terror related incident. there's lots more still to come now. bet

. >> police, the north west ambulance service and merseyside fire and rescue, who arrived at an unimaginably distressing scene yesterday and who responded with heroic professionalism aided by passers by, nhs workers and off duty emergency workers who heard the calls of distress and ran to help . as the police officer said help. as the police officer said to me when we spoke, they do these jobs knowing they can be called upon in the toughest of times, but nothing still can prepare you for an attack on little children . little children. >> well, five other children and two adults remain in a critical condition in hospital today after what was described as a ferocious attack which took place at a taylor swift themed dance workshop, the pop star herself paying tribute to the victims, now saying she's in shock, the loss of life and the horrendous trauma, adding they were just little kids . now, news were just little kids. now, news away from the events in southport today and on to international news, leave lebanon immediately as the warning from the british foreign office today to all british peo

the north west ambulance service and merseyside fire and rescue , and merseyside fire and rescue, who arrived at an unimaginably distressing scene yesterday and who responded with heroic professionalism, aided by passers by, nhs workers and off duty emergency workers who heard the calls of distress and ran to help . as the police officer said help. as the police officer said to me when we spoke, they do these jobs knowing they can be called upon in the toughest of times, but nothing still can prepare you for an attack on little children , and i want to little children, and i want to recognise the toll that that can take. those emergency workers were back at work yesterday. they live locally and some of them had been to the dance centre in the past with their own children or relatives, but they wanted to be out in their own community, continuing to serve and support the people of southport. that is public service at its very best. i also offer my sincere thanks to everyone in the nhs with hospitals across the region tending to the victims and supporting their families right now, to and

we know that 39 of those police officers have been treated by the north west ambulance service. they said that every single officer , every single single officer, every single person that they treated last night was a police officer. the police have arrested people and they've also put a dispersal order in place to stop people from coming back to southport and giving them extra powers. the local mp here, patrick thurley, has said that this is not what southport represents and these people are not from southport . the merseyside police southport. the merseyside police crime commissioner says that these are people that have come from outside and they believe that it's members of the english defence league. people have been describing them as far right fascists this morning. and one person that we spoke to, a man called norman wallace, he was telling me that this place looked like a war zone, but it wasn't people from southport that did this. >> that's will wallace. let's talk now to sophie reaper. sophie >> well, we're just less than half a mile away from where will is this mornin

outpouring of support for the emergency services here in the merseyside region and the wider north—west of course, the nonh wider north—west of course, the north west ambulances several other services responding, the police here on the cordon have been so well supported by the community today, bringing them cups of tea and coffee and offering them whatever they may need to help them as they protect this cordon around the area where the attack took place yesterday, but as a community, they are heartbroken. they are shaken, but they are coming together and they will do whatever they can over the coming hours, over the coming days, over the coming weeks, coming months, whatever it may be, they will stick together and provide that network of support for the families who are experiencing the worst thing that any parent, any family member, could ever experience. >> now, sophie reaper the tributes from the parents to their deceased children are incredibly difficult to read. but you know, we pay the respect by doing so. alice ogier , the by doing so. alice ogier, the nine year old little portuguese girl, her parents called her their princess and the message was fly

three hospitals were used when people were taken away by the north west ambulance service., declared those, alder hey, declared a critical declared a major incident that specifically a children's hospital. they were warning parents of other sick children not to bring them to the hospital unless there was an emergency. that's the severity of what happened here in this part of merseyside . but what part of merseyside. but what we've heard as well tonight from merseyside police is that a 17 year old male from the nearby village of banks has been arrested. he is originally from cardiff. police. at this point detectives have been interviewing him , trying to interviewing him, trying to establish what his motive might be. that remains unclear, but what police say they are , they what police say they are, they think is pretty clear, is that this is not terror related. they say that they do not think that this has anything to do with terrorism. they also say that they're not looking for anybody else and that there is no wider threat to the public. we've been hearing, as well as fro

. >> the north west ambulance service and merseyside fire and rescue, who arrived at an unimaginably distressing scene yesterday and who responded with heroic professionalism, aided by passers by, nhs workers and off duty emergency workers who heard the calls of distress and ran to help . as the police officer said help. as the police officer said to me when we spoke, they do these jobs knowing they can be called upon in the toughest of times, but nothing still can prepare you for an attack on little children . little children. >> yvette cooper, speaking earlier , well, let's not forget earlier, well, let's not forget that five other children and two adults remain in a critical condition in hospital tonight after what was described by merseyside police as a ferocious attack . we now know the attack attack. we now know the attack took place at a taylor swift themed dance workshop at the start of the children's summer holidays. the pop star herself today paying tribute to the victim , saying she's in shock at victim, saying she's in shock at the loss of life and horrendous trauma, addi

it was the north west ambulance service who said that there had been a substantial response to the attacks the police say, started attacking children and the adults who were there. we've heard from yvette cooper who says that what has happened is unimaginable. it's unimaginable for the leaders of the country, but it's also unimaginable for the people here in liverpool and around the region and country. and now, from what we've seen, this outpouring of grief on social media as well as the star who taylor swift, who the children were listening to, puts on her instagram, her thoughts, her condolences and brings what is a big story for the uk to a much bigger audience. as the people here living in liverpool and the wider region, southport, trying to make sense of what has happenedin to make sense of what has happened in their community, but a much wider community trying to make sense as well as to what has happened. we know still that the police, merseyside police , the police, merseyside police, are interviewing that 17 year old male to try to figure out what the motive was. he's been arrest

more than 40 or so police officers had to be treated by the north west ambulance service, and that disorderthroughout the night . we could hear helicopters night. we could hear helicopters throughout the night, and what we're seeing now is the clean up. lots of people from the community. but we've heard for the first time from the chairman of the mosque, ibrahim hussain, who spoke to journalists a short while ago about how the people who were trapped inside of their that mosque, while the riot was taking place, were fearing for their lives. >> we kept getting messages from day before and they were planning it. they obviously accused the muslim. they obviously , find this guilty and obviously, find this guilty and they were going to, punish us for, for whatever happens, which is awful, by the way. whatever whatever happened on monday was absolutely heartbreaking. i would like to thank the police very, very, very much indeed. and i'm very sorry for the casualty that the police took. they took a very bad beating. i would to , love make it better , would to, love make it better, but it's nothin

bricks were thrown, cars were set alight, and the north west ambulance service side 39 police officerse injured. daniel sandford reports. last night, the tragedy of southport descended into violence. a few hundred people had gathered outside the local mosque for a protest. they'd been fired up by social media posts that suggested, incorrectly, an islamist link to monday's stabbings. the protest has turned into a small riot, with large rocks being thrown at police officers wearing riot helmets and carrying shields. at times there was extreme violence as heavy rocks rained down on officers. a police vehicle was set on fire. the home secretary had earlier warned about disinformation linked to the attack. this violence, initially targeted at a mosque, seems to have been one of the consequences. the 17—year—old suspect in monday's attack has no known links to islam. during the fighting, one officer suffered a broken nose. merseyside police said it believed the trouble was caused by supporters of the english defence league. it said the violence was sickening for a community already devastate

we also heard from the north west ambulance service.patched 13 of its ambulances, along with specialised services, an air ambulance and doctors to the scene. the victims were then taken to various hospitals, of course around the north—west including alder hey children's hosphal including alder hey children's hospital, where they are reportedly now receiving treatment. but an incredibly shocked and shaken community here in southport this morning. >> sophie will be crossing to you throughout the programme this morning for the moment. thank you very much indeed, mike buckley and claire muldoon talking about that story and the other stories, making the news today. claire, i don't know where we where you can begin with this one. >> well, we begin as the beginning of the summer holidays as well. that's basically where we are. and no parent would ever have thought that, you know, the relief of not having to do the school run would end up with this tragic, awful, horrific news, that what happened is what happened at yesterday in southport absol

the north west ambulance service this morning have said in a statement that they treated 39 people overnightpolice officers. we saw police officers that didn't have any riot gear walking away from the violent disorder with blood covering their faces. the scenes were like something that i have never seen before in my what we'll describe as a short career so far as a journalist, but i don't think people have seen anything like this on british streets for quite some time . streets for quite some time. this is a community that was the centre of tensions and boiling points that erupted last night. all of this, the authorities would say, is inspired by speculation after the tragic killings of three very young girls aged nine, seven and six. alice el—sisi and bibi. and this is at a time when a community is trying to make sense of something so awful, an addition that just makes it all the more confusing and i think upsetting. this morning and last night, eamonn, and ellie. but you can see here that the people here are the people of southport that were probably up at the crack of dawn this morning, l

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also south yorkshire who supported us, as well as west and south fire and rescue services, and south fire and rescue services, and the yorkshire ambulance. my and the yorkshire ambulance service. my heart goes out to the family and loved ones who have lost people in this incident. this is a truly horrendous collision which we are currently in the early stages of investigating. i would ask that anyone who witnessed the incident or who has dash cam footage, please contact the major collision inquiry team. thank you. 50. contact the major collision inquiry team. thank you.— team. thank you. so, that was superintendent _ team. thank you. so, that was superintendent alan _ team. thank you. so, that was superintendent alan travis - team. thank you. so, that was l superintendent alan travis from team. thank you. so, that was - superintendent alan travis from west yorkshire police, talking about that crash in which six people were killed. he called it a tragic incident with a devastating loss of life. we can show you the picture of the couple who died. this is shannon morgan and shane roller. the superintendent said that specialist officers wer