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| South Wales police say officers are investigating a ‘serious incident’ in Pontypridd | South Wales police say officers are investigating a ‘serious incident’ in Pontypridd |
| Police have arrested a woman in a south Wales village amid reports of a series of stabbings. | Police have arrested a woman in a south Wales village amid reports of a series of stabbings. |
| South Wales police said detectives were investigating in Pen Y Graig, near Pontypridd, following reports of a “serious incident”. They asked shopkeepers to close their stores and told people to avoid the area. | South Wales police said detectives were investigating in Pen Y Graig, near Pontypridd, following reports of a “serious incident”. They asked shopkeepers to close their stores and told people to avoid the area. |
| The force tweeted: | The force tweeted: |
| The incident took place at around 1.30pm, both inside and outside the Co-op supermarket. Four people were taken to hospital. | |
| Local people claimed that two people had been injured very seriously and two others were also hurt. | |
| It is understood the incident took place close to a queue of people who were following physical distancing rules as they waited outside a shop. | |
| Ravi Raj, 35, manager at the Pen Y Graig post office, said he had seen people running from the Co-op, some bleeding. | |
| “There was a woman attacking four different people with a knife,” he said. “I saw one of the men bleeding from his neck and one of the women from the side of the neck.” | |
| One nearby shopkeeper said: “I saw a man with blood dripping down the back of his head and a woman with a cut on her neck. Everyone is feeling very uptight.” | One nearby shopkeeper said: “I saw a man with blood dripping down the back of his head and a woman with a cut on her neck. Everyone is feeling very uptight.” |
| Another said: “The police came round afterwards and told us we had to close and go home. It’s so scary.” | Another said: “The police came round afterwards and told us we had to close and go home. It’s so scary.” |
| The street is lined with terrace houses and shops, most of which are shuttered because of the lockdown. Some businesses including a fish and chip shop and a few stores were open operating under lockdown conditions. | The street is lined with terrace houses and shops, most of which are shuttered because of the lockdown. Some businesses including a fish and chip shop and a few stores were open operating under lockdown conditions. |
| A Welsh Ambulance Service spokesperson said that after they were called at about 1.50pm: “We sent one rapid response vehicle, three emergency ambulances, two advanced paramedic practitioners and our hazardous area response team, who were supported by an air ambulance. | |
| “Four people were taken by road to Cardiff’s University Hospital of Wales and the Royal Glamorgan Hospital.” | |
| Leanne Wood, the Welsh assembly member for Rhondda where the village is located, described what happened as a “serious violent incident in our local Co-op”. | |
| She said: “This is the shop that is my local grocery shop. I know the staff there, I know most of the regular shoppers there, and it is a high street that is different to no other in Wales. My sympathies go to all those affected, their families and the shop staff who must have been traumatised to witness such horror.” | |
| The Rhondda MP Chris Bryant tweeted: | |
| Alex Davies-Jones, MP for the neighbouring seat of Pontypridd, said she was “really concerned” by the news, adding: “Thank you to all our emergency services for responding so quickly. Thoughts are with all those involved.” | Alex Davies-Jones, MP for the neighbouring seat of Pontypridd, said she was “really concerned” by the news, adding: “Thank you to all our emergency services for responding so quickly. Thoughts are with all those involved.” |
| The bus company, Stagecoach, stopped its service in Pen Y Graig for the day. | The bus company, Stagecoach, stopped its service in Pen Y Graig for the day. |