Two police officers stabbed

TWO young police officers are in hospital after being stabbed in central London by a “frenzied individual”, police said.

Scotland Yard said a man in his 20s has been arrested after two officers – one male and one female – were attacked in the Leicester Square area at around 6am.

The female officer was stabbed through a vein in her arm suffering “massive blood loss”, a police source told the PA news agency – an injury which could be lifechanging. The male officer was stabbed three times in the neck and once in the chest but is expected to make a full recovery, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said.

A man in his 20s has been arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm and assaulting an emergency worker.

Speaking at Scotland Yard yesterday morning, Sir Mark said that both officers are now in a stable condition. He said the female officer challenged the man after suspecting him of carrying a knife, and he stabbed her in the arm before attempting to flee.

Aaron Chow Forensics officers and police at the scene of the stabbings in Shaftesbury Avenue