A woman has been arrested after three people were stabbed in Covent Garden in central London, the Metropolitan Police said.

The London Ambulance Service attended the scene after being called at 12.29pm today to reports of a stabbing on Endell Street.

Four people were taken to a major trauma centre following the stabbing.

London’s Air Ambulance landed in the middle of a busy Trafalgar Square to respond to the incident.

A London Ambulance Service spokesperson told LBC: “We were called at 12:29pm today (5 August) to reports of a stabbing on Endell Street, WC2H.

“We sent an ambulance crew, paramedic in a fast response car and an incident response officer. We also dispatched London’s Air Ambulance.

“We treated four patients at the scene and took them all to a major trauma centre as a priority by road”.

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