Know what the situation is, we don t know how mass casualty otherwise this incident might be, but met speculation on social media, you have to be very careful about that. This would have been a call, it doesn t matter if i went to the police or ambulance first, worth a reported casualties, where there are there are reports of stabbing, police and ambulances will attend. We can see fire appliances on the same day, as well. There is a multi agency situation. You would expect a good command to be set up there. Some of the senior within emergency services coordinator and that action on the ground. Typically in scenes where or reported casualties and reported stabbings, the concern of the paramedics is going to be to save as many people as possible. From a pleasing perspective, what they don t want is for those emergency services workers to become a casualty themselves. There will be because communications between the control rooms, the prison and the ambulance service and the fire service.
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Good evening from southport, where there is stunned shock and grief this evening after an attack in which eight people were stabbed, including children. The victims have been taken to three hospitals, including alder hey children s hospital in liverpool, which has declared a major incident, saying that parents should only bring their children if it s urgent. There has been an update from police. They say armed police arrested a 17 year old boy. They ve said they re not treating the incident as terror related and have said there is no risk to the public. Let s explain what we know. A dance and yoga event for primary school children was taking place near where the incident happened. Those injured were taken to alder hey children s hospital, aintree university hospital and southport and formby hospital. Judith moritz has tonight s first report, and you may find some of the details upsetting. A sunny day in the school holidays and children who has been dancing moments earlier are lying in