A 30-year-old man of Pakistani origin was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following the incident, police have reported.
A 17-year-old girl has been stabbed in the neck in northwest England, just days after a brutal knife attack in Belfast sparked national outrage and anti-immigration riots.
A 30-year-old British-born man of Pakistani heritage was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following the incident in the town of Brierfield, Lancashire Police said on Saturday. The victim is also of Pakistani heritage, according to the BBC.
Police said officers were called after receiving reports that a teenager had been stabbed on Friday afternoon.
Video footage circulating on social media purports to show the attacker walking up behind the unsuspecting girl, who had was wearing a hood, and stabbing her twice in the neck.
Warning: Disturbing Video
Lancashire Police have confirmed that a 30 year old British born man of Pakistani heritage has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a 17 year old girl was stabbed in the neck in Brierfield.
Thankfully, the victim’s injuries are not believed to be life… pic.twitter.com/IInxRbvlvt
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“This was a very serious incident but thankfully the girl’s injuries were not life-threatening,” police said. “After receiving treatment and care, she has been discharged from hospital and is recovering at home.”
Oliver Ryan, the MP representing Brierfield, called on people not to “exploit” the incident for clickbait.
“First and foremost, my thoughts are with the young victim of yesterday’s horrific stabbing,” he said in a statement on X on Saturday.
The attack comes at a time of heightened tensions across Britain and Northern Ireland.
Earlier this week, Sudanese asylum seeker Hadi Alodid attacked a man in Belfast, leaving him with severe injuries including the loss of his left eye. He was later arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. The gruesome video of Alodid kneeling atop the bloodied victim and repeatedly cutting at him with a knife quickly went viral and ignited widespread outrage.
The attack sparked several nights of anti-immigration riots across Belfast and other parts of Northern Ireland, with multiple residential buildings, shops, and vehicles set ablaze.
The violence came amid long-running tensions over immigration and asylum policy in the UK, following multiple high-profile murder and rape cases involving migrants in recent years.
Here come the upticks…and the very real trigger for Civil War in the U.K…
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Victim was “Stabbed in neck”, but “not life threatening”. The police statement still defends the aggressor.
The death penalty needs to come back with a vengeance, the reason there are high trust low violence White society is because we HAD the death penalty and these people were put to death and were not allowed to have children, that is how you do it, these people are genetically programed to act that way. The reasons they act this way are ‘mental health’ reasons, if you dont lock them down for their own and everyone else’s safety they will hurt people, themselves included, they are low IQ, they dont understand the world they live in and are of no use to a modern society, send them back to their low IQ country or put them to death, it is a mercy for everyone.
Also a footnote, if you ever see one of these people in action, the self defense law allows you to use to use deadly force, dont hesitate, use it, then use your right to remain silent.
zippy, totally agree 👍
Agree. I am all for the death penalty. Save the taxpayer BILLIONS. Stop these FERALS breeding.
Have the British police arrested her yet?
quazzy, lol, hopefully there are no Herald readers here, reading that. They are too stupid to get your drift.
Don’t worry, they probably will. She was asking for trouble quietly walking down the road and minding her own business.
The UK has lost the plot. All by design however, very plain to see.
NZ is not too far behind though. Sure hope we don’t catch up.
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Once again, nothing to see here, right? I think the public are well past believing the official lies and propaganda.
Attempted “honour killing”?