Security guard Abdullah who was involved in helping an 11-year-old girl who was stabbed in London's famous Leicester Square. A 34-year-old woman was also stabbed in the incident.
Follow all the developments on the MailOnline live blog hereThis is the moment a 'knifeman' was arrested after a schoolgirl and her mother were attacked in Leicester Square.
'I jumped on him, held the hand in which he was a knife, and just put him down on the floor and just held him and took the knife away from him. 'I jumped on him, held the hand in which he was a knife, and just put him down on the floor and just held him and took the knife away from him' 'I just saw a kid getting stabbed and I just tried to save her. It's my duty to just save them,' he said.A police cordon has been put in place surrounding the double doors of the TWG Tea shop on Leicester Square
'I would like to pay tribute to the members of the public, including staff from local businesses, who bravely intervened in this incident. They put themselves at risk and showed the best of London in doing so. A London Ambulance Service spokesman said: 'We were called at 11.36am on Monday August 12 to reports of a stabbing at Leicester Square.
'Before I could jump down to go , two guys were just passing, and they grab him, they put him on the ground, and immediately the police came. I think the woman was also stabbed once, but the child was the most targeted, he was stabbing the child several times. Police held him and stood him up and cuffed him.'
He added: 'It was so terrible, I've never seen a thing like that. I was heartbroken, I saw the woman was screaming with all her strength.'
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