A 9-year-old lady died on Tuesday morning within the health facility, police stated.July 30, 2024, 10:30 AM ET• 4 min readLONDON — A 3rd younger lady has died following a stabbing spree at a youngsters’s Taylor Swift-themed tournament in the UK, police stated Tuesday, because the pop superstar reacted on social media pronouncing she was once “in surprise.”Officials spoke back simply ahead of midday on Monday to studies of a stabbing at a assets in Southport, a seashore the town about 20 miles north of Liverpool, in line with Merseyside police.Two women, 6-year-old Bebe King and 7-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe, had been killed, and 9 different youngsters had been injured, police stated.A 3rd lady, 9-year-old Alice Dasilva Aguiar, died on Tuesday morning within the health facility, police stated.Alice was once certainly one of six wounded youngsters who have been in vital situation, in conjunction with two adults, who had been additionally stabbed, police stated.The opposite 5 youngsters and two adults remained in vital situation on Tuesday, police stated.Floral tributes close to the scene in Hart Boulevard, Southport, Britain, Tuesday July 30, 2024, the place two youngsters died and 9 had been injured in a “ferocious” knife assault, police stated. James Speakman/AP”We consider that the adults who had been injured had been bravely attempting to give protection to the kids who had been being attacked,” Merseyside Police Leader Constable Serena Kennedy stated on Monday.The cause stays unclear, Kennedy stated.Merseyside police stated the kids had been attending a Taylor Swift-themed tournament at a dance college. A flyer for the two-hour tournament referred to as it a “Taylor Swift Yoga and Dance Workshop.” The development was once for youngsters between 6 and 11 years previous, in line with a publish at the organizer’s Instagram.Cops and forensic workforce post a fence on Hart Boulevard in Southport, northwest England, on July 29, 2024, following a knife assault.Darren Staples/AFP by means of Getty ImagesThe “horror” of the assault was once “washing over me steadily,” Swift stated in a publish on Instagram. She stated she was once “totally in surprise.””The lack of existence and innocence, and the horrendous trauma inflicted on everybody who was once there, the households and primary responders,” she stated. Those had been simply sons and daughters at a dance magnificence. I’m at a whole loss for the right way to even put across my sympathies to those households.”A 17-year-old boy from Banks, a coastal village in Lancashire, simply out of doors Southport, was once arrested on suspicion of homicide and tried homicide, police stated. The suspect, whose title was once now not launched, was once born in Cardiff, Wales, police stated.The “complete instances” had been nonetheless being investigated, Kennedy stated, including that the assault wasn’t being investigated as a terror-related. Police weren’t looking for further suspects, she stated.
