The First Footage Comes In From The Mass Stabbing In Dublin That Left 3 Kids And 2 Adults Stabbed, 5 Year Old Fighting For Her Life

A five-year-old girl is receiving emergency treatment at Temple Street Hospital after a stabbing incident in Dublin’s inner city which left five people hospitalized, including the perpetrator, on Thursday.

Gardaí have ruled out any possible terrorist motive and consider a man in his 50s, who has also been taken for treatment for serious injuries, to be the chief suspect in the case. They are not looking for anyone else in relation to their investigation.

A boy, also aged five, and a girl (6) sustained less serious injuries and were brought to CHI Crumlin for treatment. The boy has since been discharged.

A woman in her 30s was being treated for serious injuries at the Mater hospital.

The Irish Times understands she was an employee of the school or afterschool care facility the children were attending.

A number of passers-by intervened on the street shortly after the attack began and subdued the suspect, took a knife from him and threw the knife across the street into a grassy area close to the Garden of Remembrance.

Early indications suggest a man tried to attack a number of young people, including children, and that passers-by intervened.

The motive for the attack, which occurred close to a school on the street, has not been established. The area has been sealed off as a crime scene and gardaí and paramedics quickly flooded in the street when the alarm was raised.

The incident took place outside Gaelscoil Coláiste Mhuire on Parnell Square East as children were coming out of the school, which caters to primary-age children.