A man has been arrested, while the victims have been taken to a hospital's major trauma centre.
A security guard disarmed a knifeman after an 11-year-old girl and a 34-year-old woman were stabbed in London's Leicester Square. Abdullah, 29, said he 'heard a scream', then 'jumped on' the man who was attacking the child before holding him down and taking the knife off 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.
'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,' he said. 'Then a couple of more people joined as well, and we just held him until the police came, it took maybe three to four minutes for the police to arrive and then they just took him into custody.' Police officers remain at the scene in central London, which is a popular destination for tourists.
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