Overview
- Police and medics responded to reports of stabbings on Endell Street in Covent Garden on Wednesday lunchtime and found four men with stab wounds who were treated at the scene.
- A 47‑year‑old woman was arrested at the scene on suspicion of assault and possession of an offensive weapon and remains in custody while officers say they are not seeking anyone else.
- Officers recovered a pair of scissors at the location and the Metropolitan Police say the attack is being treated as an isolated, mental health–related incident in its early stages of inquiry.
- London Ambulance Service and London's Air Ambulance were dispatched; all four victims were taken by road to a major trauma centre and two have been discharged while two remain in hospital with injuries not thought to be life‑threatening or life‑changing.
- A large police cordon briefly closed parts of the West End, witnesses described a tense stand‑off and incoherent behaviour by the suspect, and detectives have appealed for witnesses to contact police quoting CAD3449/05AUG.