16/03/2011

West Belfast Multiple Stabbing Probed

Four people - including a police officer - were stabbed in west Belfast overnight.

Police said that at around 10pm on Tuesday it was reported that a man was taken to hospital after being seen at Waterford Street, off the Falls Road, with a stab wound to his neck. Another man suffered serious stab wounds and was taken to hospital.

A woman was also stabbed in the neck and a male police officer was stabbed in the left arm.

One man has been arrested after the incident and the PSNI said inital enquiries suggest the stabbings followed a disturbance in a bar close to the junction of the Falls Road and Waterford Street. It is believed at least one of the assaults took place in the bar.

Police said the man who was arrested was in his 50s. They said he was not one of the people injured.

(BMcC)

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