Dublin stabbing leaves 5 injured, including 3 children: media reports

Irish police said five people, including three young children, had been taken to hospital on Thursday following what local media said was a stabbing in Dublin city centre.

Irish police said five people, including three young children, had been taken to hospital on Thursday following what local media said was a stabbing in Dublin city centre on Thursday.

Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said police had detained a suspect.

National broadcaster RTE quoted a witness on the scene as saying she saw a man in a “stabbing motion” from across the road and that when she ran closer, she said that two children had been stabbed as far as she could tell.

Anthony Boyle, 31, an IT consultant who lives on the road and was passing by told Reuters, “I saw a child on the ground, a little girl.”

“There was complete and utter pandemonium, women wailing, men screaming and crying.”

He added that he saw a man lying on his side but did not see the events before.

One girl has sustained serious injuries and the other two children are being treated for less serious injuries, police said. An adult female is also being treated for serious injuries and an adult male has less serious injuries, police added.

Local media reported that the people were stabbed on Dublin’s Parnell Square, which is next to Dublin city’s main thoroughfare of O’Connell Street. There were around 20 officers on the scene that police said remained sealed off.