Stabbings

The 39-year-old female suspect in the Hamburg attack was sent to a psychiatric ward after appearing before a judge on Saturday.

The knifeman who killed a German man in Berlin on Saturday has been identified as a 43-year-old Syrian, the public prosecutor’s office said on Sunday.

Four people were injured, including two seriously, following a stabbing incident in the central Norwegian city of Trondheim. 

Dutch police have revealed that the suspect in the Amsterdam mass stabbing on Thursday is a 30-year-old Ukrainian from the war-torn region on Donetsk.

A migrant from Brazil has been arrested and charged in connection to the mass stabbing attack in Dublin on Sunday.

A man has been arrested after multiple people were stabbed in the Stoneybatter area of the Irish capital of Dublin on Sunday. 

Two women and a dog were left dead in a Christmas Day stabbing spree in the English town of Bletchley, Milton Keynes.

A man attacked and injured three young children as they were heading to a day care center in Zurich on Tuesday, Swiss police said.

A murder investigation has been launched after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death in the Birmingham suburb of Oldbury.

Police arrested four people following a stabbing in front of a row of shops in the multicultural British city of Birmingham.

The suspect in the mass stabbing at a German “festival of diversity” reportedly shouted out “Allahu Akbar” during the attack and is said to have been a “visitor to a local mosque”.

Four Syrian brothers have been arrested after a 67-year-old teacher was nearly killed in a knife attack last month in a suburb of Hamburg, Germany.

A 22-year-old man has been arrested after a multiple stabbing incident in Manchester left a woman dead and two others seriously injured.

A 16-year-old has been arrested after the stabbing of an Irish Army chaplain at a barracks in Galway city late Thursday evening. UPDATE 1800: Despite initial reports that terrorism was not suspected, the Special Detective Unit of the Irish Police

A mass stabbing in Southport, in northern England, has resulted in multiple casualties, some of whom were brought to a children’s hospital.

German police shot to death an Afghan man after he fatally attacked a compatriot and later wounded three people on Friday evening.

A police officer has died after being stabbed multiple times by an Afghan migrant who attacked an anti-Islamification rally in Mannheim, Germany on Friday.

Nasen Saadi, described as being from Croydon in South London, has been charged with murder following the stabbing of two women in Bournemouth.

A 22-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a woman at a bus stop in north-west London on Thursday.

At least six people were killed and multiple people were sent to hospital with injuries after a stabbing attack at a shopping mall in Sydney, Australia on Saturday.

Police have launched a manhunt and schools have been shut down after a woman was stabbed in the small Welsh village of Aberfan.

Nine people who descended upon a small French village to “stab white people” have been arrested after killing one and injuring 16.

South Korean police announced increased patrols, stop-and-search operations on the streets, and other precautions after the relatively placid country’s second knife rampage in two days and a string of attacks and threats over the past three weeks.

Police outside a subway station in Seongnam, South Korea, responded to an emergency incident on Thursday evening local time in which a man drove his car into a pedestrian walkway, then got out and began stabbing bystanders, multiple reports detailed.

A former University of Waterloo student was charged after stabbing a gender studies professor and two students during a lecture.

A 13-year-old student in Brazil stabbed four teachers and a student at the Thomazia Montoro State School in the Vila Sônia district of São Paulo on Monday, killing 71-year-old teacher Elisabeth Tenreiro.

A Tunisian man in Milan was stabbed after being attacked by other North Africans who noticed he was drinking a beer during of Ramadan. 

A 16-year-old died at a Toronto subway station in what appears to be just the latest act of unexplained violence in recent months.

Alessandro Cattaneo, a member of the Italian parliament for the centre-right Forza Italia, has warned parts of Milan are “out of control” following a mass stabbing by a Moroccan migrant.

A North African migrant was arrested by Milan’s central railway station this week after committing five robberies and stabbing six people, seriously injuring two of them.

Knife slayings hit their highest total since records began in 1946 in the year to March 2022, according to official statistics.

A mentally ill Moroccan migrant was arrested on Monday after attacking and wounding several people in a French supermarket. 

Police in Germany arrested an Eritrean accused of stabbing two young teens walking past an asylum home on their way to school, killing one.

A Syrian man faces trial in Vienna after allegedly nearly stabbing a fellow Syrian man to death because the latter was applying himself to learning German on a course they attended.

The extensive library of the main suspect in an alleged terrorist attack that left one police officer dead is being analysed by specialists.

An Afghan migrant was arrested over the fatal stabbing of a young 19-year-old woman after he allegedly confessed to his victim’s father.