Overview
- Emergency services and police responded on Wednesday after reports of a stabbing on Endell Street in Covent Garden and officers arrested a 47‑year‑old woman at the scene.
- Officers seized a pair of scissors that they say was used as the offensive weapon and the area was cordoned while forensic teams worked.
- London Ambulance Service and the air ambulance treated four men at the scene and rushed them to a specialist trauma centre, with two later discharged and two still in hospital with injuries not believed to be life‑threatening.
- The Metropolitan Police said they are not treating the attack as terrorism and that an early assessment points to the suspect's mental health as the likely motive.
- The investigation is ongoing and police have asked witnesses to come forward; witness accounts describe police using a Taser and an air ambulance landing in Trafalgar Square during the response.