Newborn bubs knifed

A 52-YEAR-OLD caregiver in the US has been charged over a knife attack on five people – including three newborn babies – at a home that was apparently being used as an unlicensed nursery for new mothers and their children.

Yufen Wang, of Flushing, Queens, was yesterday charged with attempted murder and criminal possession of a weapon, prosecutors said.

Wang is accused of stabbing and slashing a father, a female worker and three newborn babies inside the three-storey residence in the Flushing section of Queens last week.

All were hospitalised and are expected to survive the ordeal.

Wang was apprehended in the building’s basement with self-inflicted wounds to her neck and wrist.

“The defendant was hired to care for and protect the infants, sadly she was the danger,” Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said.

The motive for the attack is unclear. The nursery is in a neighbourhood popular with Chinese immigrants. Nine babies were present during the attack, the district attorney’s office said.

Local elected officials said it appeared it was an unlicensed facility for new mothers and their babies to convalesce for a month, in keeping with Chinese tradition.