00:00London Metropolitan Police have arrested a 47-year-old woman after four men were stabbed in Covent Garden on Wednesday
00:07afternoon.
00:08Emergency services responded to reports of a violent attack in the busy shopping district at around 12.30 p.m.
00:15Paramedics treated four men aged 34, 39, 42, and 52 before transporting them to major trauma centers as a priority.
00:24Two victims remain hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries while two others have been discharged.
00:31Witnesses reported seeing police officers deployed tasers to detain the suspect who was known locally in the area.
00:38Officers seized a pair of scissors at the scene.
00:42Authorities cordoned off the streets for several hours with air ambulance crews landing in nearby Trafalgar Square.
00:51Detectives confirmed the investigation remains at an early stage but is currently being treated as a mental health-related incident.
00:59The investigation remains at an early stage.
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