LONDON — A stabbing Monday at a kids’s dance class in northwest England killed two kids and wounded 11 different individuals, police stated, and officers arrested a 17-year-old boy and seized a knife after the bloody rampage.

9 kids and two adults have been wounded within the assault in Southport, a seaside city close to Liverpool, Merseyside Police stated. Six kids and each adults have been in crucial situation.

Police Chief Constable Serena Kennedy stated the wounded adults had “bravely” tried to guard the kids throughout the “ferocious” assault.

“The offender, who was armed with a knife, walked into the premises and began to assault these inside,” Kennedy stated. “We consider that the adults who have been injured have been making an attempt to guard the kids on the time they have been attacked.”

A witness described seeing bloodied kids operating from the category that was held for youngsters aged about 6 to 11 on the primary day of summer time college trip. An commercial for the occasion promised “a morning of Taylor Swift-themed yoga, dance and bracelet making.”

Kennedy stated the motive for the assault is unclear. Police stated earlier that detectives weren’t treating the assault as terror-related.

Naked Varathan, who owns a store close by, stated he noticed a minimum of seven youngsters injured and bleeding exterior a nursery.

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“They have been within the highway, operating from the nursery,” Varathan stated. “That they had been stabbed, right here, right here, right here, in all places,” he stated indicating neck, again and chest.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer known as the assault “horrendous and deeply stunning.”

Merseyside Police stated officers have been known as at about midday to an deal with in Southport, a seaside city of about 100,000 individuals close to Liverpool. It known as it a “main incident” however stated there was no wider risk to the general public.

The suspect, who has not been recognized, lived in a village about 5 miles (8 kilometers) from the positioning of the assault, police stated.

King Charles III stated in a message on X, “My spouse and I’ve been profoundly shocked to listen to of the totally horrific incident in Southport at the moment. We ship our most heartfelt condolences, prayers and deepest sympathies to the households and family members of those that have so tragically misplaced their lives, and to all these affected by this really appalling assault.”

Ryan Carney, who lives together with his mom on the street, stated his mom noticed emergency employees carrying kids “lined in crimson, lined in blood. She stated she might see the stab wounds within the backs of the kids.”

“All these items by no means actually occurs round right here,” he stated. “You hear of it, stabbings and stuff like that in main cities, your Manchesters, your Londons. That is sunny Southport. That is what individuals name it. The solar’s out. It is a pretty place to be.”

Britain’s worst assault on kids occurred in 1996, when 43-year-old Thomas Hamilton shot 16 kindergarten pupils and their instructor useless in a college gymnasium in Dunblane, Scotland. The U.Ok. subsequently banned the personal possession of just about all handguns.

Mass shootings and murders with firearms are uncommon in Britain, the place knives have been utilized in about 40% of homicides within the 12 months to March 2023. A number of headline-grabbing assaults and a latest rise in knife crime have stoked anxieties and led to requires the federal government to do extra to clamp down on bladed weapons.

PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. – One individual was injured at Tennessee’s well-known Dollywood amusement park on Sunday after a strong thunderstorm moved throughout the world and produced torrential rain that brought on flash flooding.

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Heavy precipitation was reported throughout Knox and Sevier counties on Sunday, prompting the Nationwide Climate Service workplace in Morristown, Tennessee, to situation a Flash Flood Warning for the world, together with Pigeon Forge, the place Dollywood is situated.

The FOX Forecast Heart says 2.5 inches of rain fell in a single hour, and 4 inches in complete fell throughout the Pigeon Forge space on Sunday.

Pictures and movies from Dollywood on the time the flash flooding was reported present water masking walkways and parking tons as folks, some with strollers, wade by means of the dashing water to attempt to get indoors.

Movies additionally present flooding creeping into a number of outlets throughout the amusement park.

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Different movies present a Dollywood car parking zone surrounded by floodwaters, trapping quite a few automobiles inundated by the rising water. Individuals can be seen making an attempt to get into flooded automobiles.

Bailey and Sophie Elkins had been among the many Dollywood guests trapped by the flash flooding. The sisters stated they needed to wait about 2 hours for the water to recede earlier than leaving the park.

The ponds and creeks all through the park shortly stuffed, enhancing the flooding, based on the Elkins sisters.

“When that rain down poured it actually heightened the growing rise of the water in these ponds and what not, so they only overflowed so fast,” Bailey Elkins stated. 

After the flooding, Dollywood officers launched an announcement saying one minor harm was reported amid the reviews of the extreme climate and flooding.

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“I believe the staff dealt with it with such grace, and so they had been calm and picked up,” Sophie Elkins stated. “It undoubtedly was a whole lot of water all of sudden.”

The Elkins stated they had been in a position to depart by driving by means of a service entrance a number of hours after the flooding began. 

“Dollywood is supporting visitors whose automobiles had been affected by this climate occasion, and cleanup crews have been deployed,” Dollywood stated in an announcement.

Dollywood is anticipated to reopen for enterprise on Monday afternoon.

“Park officers will proceed to evaluate circumstances and updates will probably be posted to our social media pages as extra data turns into accessible,” the park stated.

*Novak Djokovic 6-1 5-4 Rafael Nadal

Djokovic goes 0-30 up and roars in delight, earlier than Nadal pulls some extent again to offer the group hope at 15-30.

Oh, no, Nadal shanks a forehand down the road large, and it is 15-40 with two break factors to Djokovic. Hazard.

Djokovic out, one saved; Djokovic responds to a drop volley from Nadal down the road… and Nadal volleys it away for deuce! The gang are on their toes.

Argh, a horrible time for the ball to return off the fallacious a part of the racket, benefit Djokovic, the Serb nets, again to deuce.

Fantastic stuff from Djokovic: a rip-snorting forehand into the left nook, barely returned, a forehand whacked into the opposite nook with utter disdain. Emphatic. Then with benefit, he fashions a beautiful drop shot to get the break.

PARIS — Novak Djokovic, who received, and Rafael Nadal, who misplaced, met on the web and hugged after taking part in on the Paris Olympics within the sixtieth — and fairly probably final — installment of a record-breaking and sometimes riveting rivalry between two tennis greats who share a mutual respect if not a detailed friendship.

This 6-1, 6-4 victory for Djokovic got here within the second spherical of the Summer time Video games moderately than a Grand Slam ultimate, like 9 earlier head-to-head encounters, and it was not essentially the most scintillating contest, apart from for a 20-minute interlude within the second set, when Nadal’s ultimate push made issues briefly aggressive after he ceded 10 of the preliminary 11 video games.

Afterward, neither Nadal, who’s 38, nor Djokovic, 37, was prepared to concede they will not play one another once more, even when it appears unlikely they’ll. Nadal actually appears near retirement; he has had two injury-filled seasons, wanted hip surgical procedure just a little greater than a 12 months in the past, and spoke in 2023 about 2024 being his farewell.

However he is not completed at these Olympics, pairing with Carlos Alcaraz in doubles for Spain, and mentioned Monday he was a bit bored with getting requested each day about his future.

“I can not reside each single day with the sensation that it is going to be, or not going to be, my final match. I come right here, I strive my greatest, I play. And after I resolve to cease taking part in, or after I resolve to maintain going, I’ll let you realize. I do not know,” Nadal mentioned. “If I really feel that I’m not aggressive sufficient to maintain going or bodily I’m not … able to preserve going, I’ll cease, and I’ll let you realize.”

What was clear for the primary 1½ hours in opposition to Djokovic is that Nadal was diminished, nowhere close to the expert, hustling model of himself that received a document 14 French Open trophies on the identical crimson clay at Roland Garros that’s internet hosting Summer time Video games matches.

He acknowledged as a lot after leaving Courtroom Philippe Chatrier, the place followers repeatedly tried to encourage him with chants of “Ra-fa! Ra-fa!”

“Enjoying in opposition to Novak with out creating harm to him, and with out having the legs of 20 years in the past, is nearly not possible,” mentioned Nadal, whose proper thigh has been taped up for his matches in Paris.

Djokovic was requested whether or not this would possibly mark the tip of head-to-head competitors between the pair.

“In fact it may be, however we do not know that. It actually is determined by many alternative components,” Djokovic mentioned. “I simply hope for the sake of our rivalry, and the game, normally, that we’ll get to face one another as soon as, perhaps just a few occasions, on completely different surfaces, in numerous elements of the world, as a result of I really feel like it will possibly solely profit the game. However I do not know the way he feels in his physique, what his plans are.”

Djokovic additionally dismissed the concept of a “brotherhood” with Nadal, whereas acknowledging his respect and appreciation for his rival and his profession.

“It is robust to be shut, truthfully biggest rivals, and you do not need to perhaps give insights to your life or the way in which you’re feeling and stuff as a result of that may perhaps expose you and stuff,” Djokovic mentioned. “I suppose that is one of many the explanation why perhaps we did not join so shut and I do not suppose at that stage you may actually join so near anyone, however who is aware of when the profession ends for each of us. It is a lengthy life hopefully for each of us, and [we’re] each household folks and hopefully we will handle the completely different aspect of [our] relationship and replicate on issues that we went [through] collectively, that we lived collectively, the particular moments otherwise.”

Djokovic owns 24 Grand Slam titles and Nadal 22, the 2 highest males’s totals within the century-plus historical past of the game. Each have been ranked No. 1, and no pair of males has performed one another extra usually within the skilled period. They’re two-thirds of the so-called huge three of males’s tennis, together with Roger Federer, who retired with 20 Slam titles, a cohort that loved unprecedented success and prompted limitless debates about which is the GOAT.

However Nadal, a gold medalist in singles and doubles at previous Olympics, and Djokovic, who says including a gold to his in any other case glittering résumé is a precedence, are accustomed to assembly within the latter phases of occasions. It occurred a lot earlier this time as a result of whereas Djokovic is the highest seed on the Olympics, Nadal’s rating is outdoors the highest 150 on account of an absence of matches.

“I can not reside each single day with the sensation that it is going to be, or not going to be, my final match. I come right here, I strive my greatest, I play. And after I resolve to cease taking part in, or after I resolve to maintain going, I’ll let you realize.”

Rafael Nadal

The place was packed, from the press seats the place there was jostling for house, to the very best spots within the higher deck for what felt like a historic event. Rapper Snoop Dogg sat beside tennis icon Billie Jean King; Vogue editor Anna Wintour was with movie director Baz Luhrmann.

“You possibly can really feel the strain coming into the match, but additionally unimaginable hype, unimaginable environment,” Djokovic mentioned. “There was plenty of curiosity for this match. Folks wished to see it reside. Folks wished to see it on the TV as properly. I used to be simply very proud to be a part of this match.”

Different males transferring into the third spherical included Alcaraz, Casper Ruud of Norway and Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece.

After a ho-hum stretch, Nadal lastly received going, reworking it into one thing aggressive, which absolutely nobody — least of all Djokovic — discovered too shocking.

“When you give him time, he can damage you. We all know that. I’ve skilled that previously,” Djokovic mentioned. “I began to hesitate just a little on my shot. He stepped in. The gang received concerned.”

Nadal captured 4 consecutive video games within the second set, together with a forehand winner to interrupt to make it 4-all. He raised his left fist, drawing roars from the stands.

That’s when Djokovic regained management. He broke proper again, pointing to his left ear whereas strolling to the sideline as if to taunt Nadal’s supporters, and served out the victory.

A part of Nadal’s troubles Monday was not being in tip-top form. And a part of the issue, to make sure, was that Djokovic was largely the most effective model of himself, placing the ball crisply, placing it proper the place he wished and infrequently utilizing drop pictures to arrange winners and power Nadal to run lots.

“He performed a lot better than me,” Nadal mentioned, “[from] the start to the tip.”

ESPN’s D’Arcy Maine and The Related Press contributed to this report.