Leicester Square stabbing: Girl, 11, and woman, 34, knifed in centre of London's West End

Evening Standard

A man has been arrested after an 11-year-old girl and 34-year-old woman were stabbed in London's Leicester Square.The Metropolitan Police said the girl will require hospital treatment but her injuries are not life threatening. The woman suffered “more minor injuries”, the force said. “At this stage, there is no suggestion that the incident is terror-related,” it added. The man is in custody and he is thought to be the only suspect. It is currently unclear whether the man was known to the victims.A police cordon has been put in place surrounding the double doors of the TWG Tea shop at the popular tourist spot. A bloodied cloth and blood spatters could be seen on the pavement at the scene.Pollce said they were not treating the incident as terrorism related.A security guard has told how he "jumped on" and took a knife from the knifeman.

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00:00I heard a scream and the moment I saw it there was a one person

00:04Roughly along maybe like mid thirties or early thirties and he was like stabbing a kid

00:10Yeah, so I saw that he was stabbing a kid

00:13I jumped on him hold the hand in which he wasn't having a knife

00:16And they just put him down on the floor and just hold him and kick the knife away from him

00:20And then couple of more people joined as well and we just hold him until the police came

00:24It took like maybe three to four minutes police arrived and they just took him into the custody and the

00:30Child just like all my colleagues

00:32They gave him first aid and in the middle police came as well and they just

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