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Terror at Taylor Swift dance party: two children killed, 9 injured in mass stabbing
There has been a tragic event in Southport

Merseyside is in shock after two children were murdered and ninemore were injured at a Taylor Swift dance party in the town of Southport.

A hooded man wielding a knife stormed through the dance workshop on Monday where children were dancing along to Taylor Swift songs, just weeks after her Eras Tour visit to Anfield which was incredibly well received by the city of Liverpool and Taylor herself.

Southport is a town in the north of Merseyside, on the border with Lancashire. The Daily Mail reported that the unidentified man entered The Hart Space where the workshop was taking place shortly after noon local time.

At least 25 children were taking part in the event when the attack unfolded, the Mail said.

“It is like a scene from a horror movie,” local merchant Colin Parry told the BBC. “They are coming here now and screaming. It’s like something from America, not like sunny Southport.”

The attacker was quickly taken into custody and the knife was seized and taken away. The wounded girls were rushed to three local children’s hospitals, where they were being treated after the attack.

According to reports he pulled up to the scene in a taxi.

Horrific events in Merseyside
“Horrendous and deeply shocking news emerging from Southport,” Prime Minister Keir Starmer said in a statement.

“My thoughts are with all those affected,” Starmer said. “I would like to thank the police and emergency services for their swift response. I am being kept updated as the situation develops.”

One witness reported the scene outside the venue.

“I saw seven to ten kids outside the nursery,” Bare Varathan, who owns a nearby shop, told the Mail. “They were injured, bleeding.

“They were in the road, running from the nursery,” Varathan said. “They had been stabbed, here, here, here, everywhere.”

A Hart Space employee described the chaos.

“When I got there, there was a guy who was absolutely distraught, in a mess,” he said. “He’d seen two children run out of The Hart Space and he though they had got hit by a car because the car was just full of blood at the side of the car.

“But it was actually that the children who had been stabbed had fallen into the car,” the staffer said.