Suspect questioned in U.K. stabbings

LONDON — Police in the English city of Manchester were questioning a suspect and searching a house for clues about the “terror-related” stabbings of three people at a train station on New Year’s Eve.

The attack Monday night by a knife-wielding man yelling Islamic slogans left a man and a woman hospitalized with “very serious” but not life-threatening injuries and a man in custody, police said. Both the victims have abdominal injuries, and the woman also has injuries to her face.

A British Transport Police sergeant who was stabbed in the shoulder was released after an overnight hospital stay.

Police said they are treating the attack as a terrorist incident, and the investigation is being led by counterterrorism police with help from the security services. Tightlipped U.K. authorities have not commented on a possible motive for the attack, and the suspect, who is in his mid20s, has not been charged or identified.

Assistant Chief Constable Russ Jackson said police believe they have identified the suspect and were searching his home in the Cheetham Hill neighborhood of Manchester. He described the attack as frenzied and random.

Police said there’s no indication that any others were involved in planning or helping the attack.

The train station reopened Tuesday, and extra police officers were on the city’s streets as a precaution.

AP/SAM CLACK Police restrain a suspect late Monday in the stabbing of three people at Victoria Station in Manchester, England.