Suspect arrested in string of at least 9 stabbing attacks in Seattle
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A man has been arrested in connection with a spate of random stabbings over two days in Seattle, in which a woman and eight men were injured — five of them on Friday afternoon, police said.
"This incident was apparently one individual over a 38-hour period of time committing random assaults," Deputy Chief Eric Barden said at the scene Friday.
The stabbings on Friday afternoon took place in a roughly four-block area in Seattle's Chinatown-International District.
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