Angry street protests erupted in Dublin after a on Thursday afternoon, a man attacked passers-by, leaving five people, including children, stabbed. five people, including children, were stabbed. This is reported by the BBC, according to UNN.
Details
It is noted that a few hours after the attack, people took to the streets of the Irish capital, people took to the streets. The crowd, which chanted anti-immigrant slogans clashed with police officers.
The protesters also set fire to a police car and a and a bus.
The attacker has been detained, the authorities have not disclosed the identity of the authorities do not disclose the person's identity, but local activists are sure that he is a foreigner.
They gathered near the site of the attack in Parnell Square in the in the north of the city.
Context
The stabbing incident occurred at around 13:40 local time in Parnell Square. time in Parnell Square East, near one of the city's busiest streets O'Connell Street. An elementary school is located nearby.
A man, a woman and three young children were injured in the attack. small children. Two of the victims (a girl and a a woman) were seriously injured.
Local resident Siobhan Kearney, who was at the scene, told the Irish television station, told an Irish television station that she and another passerby disarmed the man with the knife.
Kearney described what was happening as "complete chaos."
Without thinking twice, I just ran across the road to help. The two children and the woman were taken back to the school where they had come from
She continued that by the time the man with the knife was on the ground, he was trying to hold on to on the ground, many people were trying to hold him down.
We, together with one American woman, organized a circle around him and said that we would wait for the police
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said that police had a suspect in custody.
Irish police officials said that they had a certain version of the event, but did not specify what it was. No one else is wanted in connection with the incident. no one is wanted in connection with the incident.