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Dublin riot sees clashes with police after five hurt in stabbings
A number of people including three children were stabbed in the centre of the Irish capital.
www.bbc.co.uk
Five people, including three children, have been taken to hospital after a serious incident in Dublin, Irish police say.
Irish broadcaster RTÉ have reported the injuries have come from a suspected stabbing incident.
It happened shortly after 1:40pm on Parnell Square East, not far from one of the city's busiest streets, O'Connell Street.
The casualties are a man, a woman and three young children.
One of the children, a girl, and the woman are being treated for serious injuries.
An eyewitness told RTÉ how she and another bystander disarmed a man with a knife.
Siobhan Kearney described the scene as 'absolutely bedlam'.
'Without thinking, I just took across the road to help out,' she said.
'Two children and the woman were taken back into the school where they were coming from.'
On the man with the knife, she said that he was on the ground and there were a lot of people trying to restrain him.
'Me and an American lady formed a ring around him saying we'd wait on the Garda.'
The area has been sealed off and declared a crime scene.
An Garda Síochána said it is following a definite line of inquiry and not looking for any other person at this time.
In a statement, the Irish Minister for Justice Helen McEntee
said she was 'deeply shocked by the appalling attack'.
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