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Police are searching three separate locations in their investigation into a series of stabbings in a County Tyrone village. Police are searching four locations in their investigation into a series of stabbings in a County Tyrone village.
Four people were taken to hospital after being attacked by a man in Caledon shortly before 1100 GMT. Four men in their 30s were taken to hospital after being attacked by a man at a convenience store in Caledon shortly before 1100 GMT.
One of the victims is local, the other three are tradesmen who were working in the village. One man is in a critical condition, one is serious, while the other two are said to be serious but stable.
Two men were seriously injured. Police said a man has been arrested and a 10-inch kitchen knife was recovered. Police said a man in his early 20s has been arrested and a 10-inch kitchen knife has been recovered.
Eyewitnesses said a man understood to be in his 20s attacked a person inside the village Mace store before going outside and stabbing three more people. The series of events began when a man entered the Mace convenience store on Main Street shortly before 1100 GMT.
Motorists have been asked to avoid the village which has been cordoned off. I could see a man coming backwards down the street wielding a spade - following him, roaring and shouting, was a young man with a very large knife Tish MillarEyewitness He stabbed a shop fitter working there before running from the shop.
One woman from Caledon said she had been in the village collecting a child from a playgroup. Another three men working nearby were also stabbed.
"The whole street was just completely blocked off. They wouldn't let any children walk up the street to come and meet their parents out of the school," she told the BBC. One victim is local, while the other three are tradesmen who were working in the village.
"The children are only three-years-old. Eyewitness Tish Millar said she became aware of a disturbance when she heard shouting near her home.
"We all had to go along back roads to lift the children and they were escorted out the play group. "I could see a man coming backwards down the street wielding a spade - following him, roaring and shouting, was a young man with a very large knife," she said.
"It is very worrying when you have a child in a play group and there is somebody going about stabbing people." "He chased him round a tree, then eventually came back up the street again.
"In my humble opinion, he didn't know where he was or what he was doing - he looked as though he was totally and completely out of it."
The injured men were treated at the scene by doctors from the neighbouring village of Tynan, before being taken to Craigavon Area Hospital.
The hospital's lead consultant in emergency medicine, Seamus O'Reilly, said the men all had injuries to their backs.
"One man is critically ill, one is seriously ill and two are serious but stable," he said.
"They said they were working in the shop, setting up shelves, when an assailant came in and attacked them.
"They cannot understand why this should happen to them."