LONDON – Protests broke out in central Dublin on Thursday evening after Irish police said a 5-year-old girl was receiving emergency medical treatment following an attack involving a knife.
A woman and two other children were injured.
Irish police said they were not treating the case as terrorism-related, and that a man in his 50s, who was also hospitalized with serious injuries, was a “person of interest”.
Police said they had a “definite line of enquiry” and they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the violence outside the school in central Dublin shortly after 1.30pm
In the early afternoon, protesters set off flares and fireworks at a police cordon in Dublin around the scene.
Armored police fended off violent protesters who tried to kick and punch them. Many of those who attacked the police had their faces covered.
A number of police vehicles and a tram were damaged during the chaos in the city centre. A bus and a car also caught fire on O’Connell Bridge in the city.
Police at the scene where three children and two adults were injured in a stabbing in Dublin, Ireland on November 23, 2023.@naoiseomuiri/AFP via Getty Images The stabbing happened near a primary school in Parnell Square East.REUTERS
“The scenes we witnessed this evening in our city center cannot and will not be tolerated,” said Justice Minister Helen McEntee. “Thugs and manipulative elements cannot be allowed to use a terrible tragedy to wreak havoc.”
Earlier, Superintendent Liam Geraghty said at a media briefing that initial indications were that a man had attacked several people in Parnell Square East.
He said that the police believed that it was “an isolated incident, not necessarily related to any wider issue that is happening in the country or in the city, and we need to identify the real reason why it happened.”
People protest in the streets after a mass stabbing in Dublin.REUTERS
Geraghty confirmed earlier witness reports that a knife was used in the attack, but he could not provide further details about the nature of the injuries.
He also confirmed that witnesses tried to disarm the man as soon as they saw what was happening.
“My understanding is that members of the public have intervened at a very early stage and we would commend those members of the public for engaging in a traumatic and potentially dangerous situation for themselves,” Geraghty said.
People light flares in the street near the scene of the stabbing.REUTERS A car burns in Dublin after a stabbing protest.REUTERS Dublin police gather near the burning vehicle.AP
He said the woman in her 30s suffered serious injuries, while two other boys aged 5 and 6 suffered less serious injuries.
The boy has been discharged from the hospital, he added.
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Source: thtrangdai.edu.vn/en/
