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Agence France-Presse

Police arrested a man on terror charges on Friday after a mass stabbing at a shopping centre in Manchester, northwest England, that left five people injured.
The man, in his 40s, was “lunging and attacking people” with a large knife in the Arndale shopping centre, Police Chief Russ Jackson said.
The attack comes two years after Manchester was rocked by a suicide bombing that killed 22 people after a concert by pop star Ariana Grande.
“The man attacked people around him and we understand five people were injured by him,” Jackson told a news conference.
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“Although the injuries are nasty, we are told that, thankfully, none are life-threatening.”
The suspect was detained within five minutes and initially arrested for assault, before this was changed to an accusation of preparing and instigating an act of terrorism.

“We do not know the motivation for this terrible attack. It appears random, is certainly brutal and of course extremely frightening for anyone who witnessed it,” Jackson said.
Nobody else was believed to be involved, nor was there any wider threat at the moment, he added.
Footage posted online appeared to show one police officer restraining the suspect on the ground as another stands over him pointing a taser.
Two women – one of them aged 19 – were taken to hospital with stab wounds and were said to be in a stable condition following the attack, which happened soon after 11:00am (1000 GMT).
A man in his 50s was also being treated while the fourth victim, a woman in her 40s, did not require treatment, police said.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was “shocked by the incident in Manchester and my thoughts are with the injured and all those affected”.
Among the pictures circulating on social media was one of paramedics screening off a cafe to treat victims after the shopping centre was evacuated.
Freddie Houlder, 22, said he was in the centre when he heard “a load of screams” before a woman told him she was nearly stabbed.
“Luckily she had quite a thick jacket – she thought originally it was a fake knife because of how easily it grazed off but police came in and said it was a real knife and she burst into tears,” he said.
“I definitely do not think it was gang violence because this guy was going around trying to stab random people, I believe.”

The Arndale centre had been the scene of a terror attack in 1996 when the largest peacetime bomb ever detonated in Britain injured 212.
The 1,500kg truck bomb, planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army, caused an estimated £770 million (US$970 million) damage, and led to the centre being completely redeveloped.
Two people were also seriously injured last New Year’s Eve when a 25-year-old man went on a stabbing rampage near the city’s Victoria railway station, reportedly shouting “Allah” during the attack.
He was later detained under mental health legislation.
The Arndale centre is near the Manchester Arena, where the Ariana Grande concert attack occurred, and the railway station.


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Terror probe after mass stabbing at Manchester shopping centre

Police cars are seen outside the Arndale centre in Manchester. Photo: Reuters

Police cars are seen outside the Arndale shopping centre after several people were stabbed in Manchester, Britain October 11, 2019. REUTERS/Peter Powell

11 October 2019, England, Manchester: Policemen stand outside the Arndale Centre where at least four people have been treated after a stabbing incident. Photo: Peter Byrne/PA Wire/dpa

In this image taken from mobile phone footage, police arrest a man outside the Arndale Centre in Manchester, England, Friday October 11, 2019, after a stabbing incident at the shopping center that left four people injured. Greater Manchester Police say a man in his 40s has been arrested on suspicion of serious assault. He has been taken into custody. (John Greenhalgh via AP)

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Police officers in front of the shopping centre where the Savo Vocational College is located in Kuopio, Finland, on Tuesday. Phhoto: Hannu Rainamo/Lehtikuva via Reuters

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Deputy police chief Seppo Korhonen from the Eastern Finland Police Department addresses a press conference in Kuopio, Finland, after an attack occurred on the premises of the Savo Vocational College on October 1, 2019. - A "violent incident" at a vocational college in Kuopio, eastern Finland, left one person dead and ten injured, including the suspected attacker, police said. (Photo by Hannu Rainamo / Lehtikuva / AFP) / Finland OUT

Police vehicles and officers outside the shopping centre where a fatal sword attack took place. Photo: dpa

Four homeless men savagely beaten to death with metal bar in New York’s Chinatown

New York Police Department mark the scene of an attack in Manhattan's Chinatown. Photo: AP

New York Police Department officers investigate the scene of an attack in Manhattan's Chinatown neighborhood, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2019 in New York. Four men who are believed to be homeless were attacked and killed early Saturday in a street rampage. NYPD Detective Annette Shelton said that a fifth man remained in critical condition after also being struck with a long metal object that authorities recovered. (AP Photo/Jeenah Moon)

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Emergency services work at Manchester Arena after reports of an explosion at the venue during an Ariana Grande gig in Manchester, England Monday, May 22, 2017. Several people have died following reports of an explosion Monday night at an Ariana Grande concert in northern England, police said. A representative said the singer was not injured. (Peter Byrne/PA via AP)

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A man was ‘lunging and attacking people’ with a large knife in the Arndale shopping centre, police said
The attack comes two years after Manchester was rocked by a suicide bombing that killed 22 people



A man was ‘lunging and attacking people’ with a large knife in the Arndale shopping centre, police said.


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