A member of the public leapt over a barrier cordoning off part of Nottingham before being tackled by police hours after three people were killed after being knocked down by a van in the city centre.
They were pursued by several officers, including some who were armed, and one appeared to sustain an arm and was left clutching their arm in pain after the incident, in Milton Street, reported GB News.
Witnesses earlier described hearing screams as two people were stabbed amid a string of attacks in Nottingham that left three dead and another three victims in hospital.
Nottinghamshire Police said two people were found dead in Ilkeston Road at around 4am on Tuesday.
The body of another victim was discovered in Magdala Road, and another three people were hurt when someone tried to run them over with a van in Milton Street.
A witness told the BBC he saw a young man and young woman being stabbed in Ilkeston Road, close to the junction with Bright Street.
The man, who did not give his name, said he heard “awful, blood-curdling screams” and looked out of his window to see a man dressed all in black with a hood and rucksack grappling with some people.
He told the broadcaster: “She was screaming ‘Help!’ I just wish I’d shouted something out of the window to unnerve the assailant.
“I saw him stab the lad first and then the woman. It was repeated stabbing – four or five times.
“The lad collapsed in the middle of the road.
“The girl stumbled towards a house and didn’t move.
“The next minute she had disappeared down the side of a house, and that’s where they found her.
“I’d say it all happened within five or six minutes. The attacker then just walked off up Ilkeston Road towards town, as calm as anything.”
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