A summary of today's developments
One of these people is in a critical condition in hospital, while the other two suffered minor injuries.
Two of the victims were university students and were named locally as Barnaby Webber, a cricketer from Taunton, and his friend Grace Kumar.
A 31-year-old man is in custody and police are not currently looking for any further suspects.
Chief constable Kate Meynell said officers believe the suspect stole the man’s van and used it to drive into members of the public on Milton Street.
Grace Kumar has been named locally as the second victim of the attacks as she walked back to her University of Nottingham accommodation with her friend Barnaby Webber, a cricketer from Taunton, who was also killed.
The tennis player Andy Murray said he did not know whether play would go ahead at the Nottingham Open after the “heartbreaking” incident in the city centre overnight.
He said: “It was obviously shocking when I woke up this morning and when I was going down to breakfast a few messages on our team chat came up. We are staying in the city centre and had been out for dinner last night and walking around those areas. You never expect something like that to happen, it was really shocking.
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Guardian: Students among victims stabbed
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Members of the House of Lords expressed their horror at the events in Nottingham and sent their condolences to the victims’ loved ones.
Lord Coaker, Labour’s home affairs spokesman, said: “As a Nottinghamshire resident, a former Nottinghamshire Member of Parliament with an obvious close attachment to the city, can I say how shocked, appalled and saddened I am at the awful events in Nottingham today, as we all will be?
“I am sure the whole House will want to join with me in thanking the emergency services and sending our condolences to the families and friends of the victims, indeed the whole community.”
Lord Coaker was the MP for Gedling, an area on the outskirts of Nottingham, for 18 years.
Home Office minister Lord Sharpe of Epsom said: “Can I also join in Lord Coaker’s remarks about the situation in Nottingham, thank the emergency services, as he did, and obviously express our sympathies and my sympathies to the victims and their families?”
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Former England cricket captain Michael Vaughan has paid tribute to Barnaby Webber.
Barnaby Webber .. A young cricketer gone far too soon xxx
— Michael Vaughan (@MichaelVaughan) June 13, 2023
Petra Gyuricska was getting a lift to work early on Tuesday when she suddenly ordered her husband, , to stop the car – there was a man lying motionless outside Magdala tennis club. It is not the sort of thing you see very often at 5.30am in Mapperley Park, one of Nottingham’s leafiest suburbs, write Helen Pidd, Jessica Murray and Jamie Grierson.
“I thought maybe someone was drunk,” said the 39-year-old, “and then we saw the blood.” Another passer-by called 999 and two police cars were quickly on the scene on Magdala Road, followed by an ambulance. “They started doing CPR but you could just see …” Her voice dropped as she recalled the awful scene.
They had arrived too late. The man, in his 50s, was already dead, having bled out on to the pavement. It was impossible to tell how long he had been there, or whether he had waited in vain for someone to help him in time. “There was blood running all down the road,” said Toldi. “He had been stabbed.”
Gyuricska was due at work at 6am at the Ibis hotel, so gave her details to police and went on her way. She cracked on with serving 70 breakfasts, learning later that the horror she witnessed was not the aftermath of one single, terrible incident but one of three shocking attacks to take place across Nottingham before most of the city had woken up.
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Tributes paid to Barnaby Webber by his local cricket club
In a statement, Bishops Hull Cricket Club, in Taunton, Somerset, described Barnaby Webber – who has been named locally as one of the victims – as “our dear friend and team mate”, adding that his “memory will live on”.
Webber, a student at the University of Nottingham, was one of three people killed in the Nottingham attacks this morning.
The statement said: “Today we learnt of the death of our dear friend and team mate, Barnaby Webber.
“Barney was attacked at the early hours of this morning walking home with a friend after a night out on 13/06/2023 and had lost his life.
“‘Webbs joined the club back in 2021 and has since then been a key part of our club and made such an impact in such a short space of time.
“Playing more than 30 games for the club, scoring 622 runs, and taking 29 wickets, his memory will live on.
“As a club we would like to invite family, friends, club members and members of the village and public who wish to pay their respects and lay some flowers at the club. TA1 5EB.”
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— Bishops Hull Cricket Club (@BishopsHull_CC) June 13, 2023
Today we learnt of the death of our dear friend and team mate, Barnaby Webber.
Barney was attacked at the early hours of this morning walking home with a friend after a night out on 13/06/2023 and had lost his life.
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Nottingham is “completely devastated” by the attacks but has “come together” in the wake of the tragedy, the Labour MP for Nottingham East Nadia Whittome said.
Whittome told the PA news agency: “Our whole city is shaken and completely devastated by this.
“Nothing like this has happened in Nottingham in my lifetime.
“But I know that the city already has come together. We’ve all just come back from the vigil which was particularly attended by a lot of young people who are paying respects to their classmates and their families who have been killed today and I know that that will continue over the coming days and weeks.”
The MP also encouraged people affected to access support available through the University (of Nottingham) wellbeing services and Nottingham Victim Care.
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The University of Nottingham’s vice-chancellor, Shearer West, has just released this statement.
West said: “All of us at Nottingham are deeply shocked and saddened by the deaths of two of our students following a major incident in Nottingham city centre.
“I know our entire University community will join me in offering our deepest condolences to their family and close friends, as well as the other victims of the incident. Our thoughts are very much with them all at this incredibly difficult time.
“The university is supporting the students’ family and friends, as well as staff and students. Our security team is working closely with Nottinghamshire Police and the authorities to support the ongoing investigation into the incident.
“Support is available through our support and wellbeing services for any of our community who may need it.”
Bosses at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust said the three deaths had “shocked everyone who lives or works” in Nottingham.
In a joint statement, chief executive Anthony May and chairman Nick Carver offered “our thanks and admiration” to emergency service staff “for their swift response and professionalism at such a difficult time”.
Universities UK, which represents 140 institutions across the country, said it is “shocked and appalled” by what has happened in Nottingham and that support teams will be available for students at all universities, the BBC reported.
“The thoughts of the university community are with those impacted,” it said in a statement.
“We understand this is an upsetting time for all students, and remind them that every university will have student support teams standing by to speak to anyone who feels affected by the news.”
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After the University of Nottingham confirmed two of the victims of the attack in the early hours of Tuesday were students, concern rippled through the academic community.
At the Student Union bar Mooch, students were in shock as they struggled to comprehend what had happened. “It’s really scary, it’s a really busy part of the city,” one student, who asked not to be named, told the Guardian. “I had a friend who was walking home at roughly the same time – it could have been her.”
The students said there had been a number of events in the city on Monday night, including a party at a club called Pryzm, from which the victims could have been returning.
Student Union officers announced that the Grad Ball planned for Tuesday evening had been cancelled.
One student, who contacted the Guardian anonymously, said: “Our leavers’ Grad ball was due to happen tonight and has just been cancelled. Many other fellow students previously keen to enjoy their final week or so in this lovely city are now scared to leave their houses.”
One of the University of Nottingham students killed has been named locally as Barnaby Webber, the PA news agency reported.
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Here is the footage of Nottinghamshire police chief constable Kate Meynell’s update on its investigation.
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A vigil at Nottingham’s St Peter’s Church, in the city centre, was attended by hundreds of people paying their respects to those who died and those injured.
During the service, attended by mainly young people of university age, those present were invited to place flowers below the altar or light a candle.
The Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham, the Rt Revd Paul Williams, said the impromptu service was an opportunity to “pray for those whose lives have so cruelly taken away”.
The bishop also said the city was “in collective shock and disbelief.”
Those attending the vigil included students from the University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University.
Speaking outside the church, a second-year student at the University of Nottingham said: “We live fairly close to where, unfortunately, they were found, so it has properly shook up a lot of people.
“It’s really scary. It’s so horrible that this has happened.”
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Police 'keeping an open mind' on motive, no further arrests made
Nottinghamshire police chief constable Kate Meynell added that the families of the Nottingham attack victims have been informed.
She said: “We are keeping an open mind and are working closely with counter-terrorism policing to establish the facts as we would normally do in this type of circumstance.
“The families of all the victims have been informed and are being supported by specially-trained officers.
“Officers have also carried out a number of searches of addresses across the city to gather evidence, but no further arrests have been made.
“A team of dedicated detectives are investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident and will continue to gather evidence over the coming days.
“I want to thank those who live and work in our city for their patience and understanding in incredibly difficult circumstances. We will, of course, keep the public updated as soon as we are able to say anything further.”
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Suella Braverman also told broadcasters: “First of all, I want to say how shocked and saddened I am that three people have lost their lives earlier today in Nottingham and that further individuals have been injured in this tragic incident.
“My thoughts first and foremost are with all of those who have been involved, their friends, their families and their communities.
“I want to thank the emergency services for their rapid response. They’re working around the clock to keep people safe and we’re incredibly grateful for their efforts.”
The home secretary added: “I’m in regular contact with the chief constable of Nottinghamshire police, but I want to take this opportunity to urge anybody who has any information about this incident to come forward and report it to the police.”
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The home secretary Suella Braverman said “we’re in a very early stage of the investigation” when asked whether the deadly Nottingham attack could have been terror-related.
She told broadcasters in Westminster: “We need to allow the police the time and the space to carry out all of their operational activity to determine the motive.
“It’s right that Nottinghamshire police are working with Counter Terrorism Policing. But it’s also fair to say that everybody and all professionals on the front line are keeping an open mind as to what the precise motive might have been.”
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Nottingham suspect believed to have killed man and used van to drive at members of public, say police
At a press conference outside Nottinghamshire police central police station, chief constable Kate Meynell says:
This is a very sad day for our city and we will do everything possible to get justice for the victims and their families.
She says two people aged 19 were found stabbed and unresponsive on Ilkeston Road and a man in his 50s was found with knife wounds on Magdala Road. Police believe his van was stolen and then used to drive at pedestrians.
Meynell adds that several searches at addresses across the city have been carried out to gather evidence.
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Reporters are now being told the press conference will start in five minutes. Police will read a statement and take no questions.
Police are due to hold a press conference soon to update the public on their investigation into this morning’s killings. You’ll be able to follow that live here.
A vigil is planned early this evening, the city council’s leader, David Mellen, has said. He told BBC Radio Nottingham:
I believe there’s going to be a vigil outside St Peter’s Church in the square organised by the diocese at 5pm for people to come together to just take in the enormity of what has happened to stand together.
Nottingham is a city where people get on well together, where people live in harmony, people work together. To have this shocking incident break into the harmony is truly awful and whatever the motives we would want to stand against them.
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Two students among those killed
Two of the three people killed were students at the University of Nottingham, the institution says.
It is with great sadness that we confirm the sudden and unexpected death of two of our students following a major incident in Nottingham city centre overnight.
We are shocked and devastated by the news and our thoughts are with those affected, their families and friends. We know this is likely to cause distress for staff and students in our community.
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France “shares the grief” with the UK after the deaths of three people this morning, the nation’s president, Emmanuel Macron, has said.
Our thoughts go to the victims of the tragic events in Nottingham, the injured, the families. We share the grief of our British friends and stand by their side.
Our thoughts go to the victims of the tragic events in Nottingham, the injured, the families. We share the grief of our British friends and stand by their side.
— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) June 13, 2023
Macron’s statement of support comes after the UK’s prime minister, Rishi Sunak, offered “any assistance” the country could provide after the stabbing of four young children in an “unfathomable attack” in a lakeside park in the French Alps.
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The University of Nottingham students’ union has confirmed it has cancelled Tuesday’s graduation ball following the attacks in the early hours. The organisation said it was “devastated and shocked” by the attacks that have left three people dead and three in hospital.
We stand in solidarity with all our students and the wider city, and our thoughts are with the families and friends of those harmed, alongside those directly and indirectly affected by the unfolding of these terrible events.
In light of this, we have made the decision to cancel Grad Ball this evening. Attendees will be contacted in due course but, in the meantime, we are continuing to work with the university and relevant authorities to understand the situation.
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At the police cordon on Ilkeston Road, a forensics team have collected what appear to be two paramedic rucksacks in bags labelled “evidence bag”.
A collection of debris, which looked like clothing and bags, was left at the scene where two people were killed. Two officers remain outside a property a few hundred yards away, which was raided by armed police earlier today.
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A significant police presence including several vehicles remains in Bentinck Road, reportedly the scene of the suspect’s arrest.
A police cordon restricts access at the Noel St and Sophie Road junctions, with a number of police officers guarding the perimeter.
A housing association block of flats off Bentinck Road is also taped off.
A resident within the block told the Guardian they heard commotion from the street at around 5.30am and shouts of “get on the floor”.
The resident said they did not believe the suspect lived in the block, and that he was arrested outside a shop on Bentinck Road.
Unverified footage that emerged early on Tuesday shows a man being pinned to the floor by police next to a van in Bentinck Road.
On Noel Street, an entire tram is stationary within the cordon but the Guardian understands it is not linked to the incident.
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Sky News has spoken to another student who lives in the area of the incident, and who witnessed the police operation unfolding in Nottingham. Joel Riley told viewers:
I mean there are sirens all along this road pretty much all year round. There was always a slight thought that maybe something a bit more was going on. There was quite a lot, all throughout from 5am, it was pretty constant. I guess it was around 9 or 10, and I had messages from people. I hadn’t checked the news at that point, and then I kind of realised that something had actually happened. It was absolutely packed with police. Armed police going checking cars. Police going into this building here. So yeah, it was a little bit of a shock really this morning. It’s quite a weird thing to wake up to.
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Nottinghamshire police are operating a dedicated line for people concerned about a family member or friend in the area of the incident – 0800 0961011.
Here are some of the latest images of the police operation in Nottingham, where a man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after three people were killed and a further three injured in the city centre.
Police keeping 'open mind' about motive for attack
Police have said they are keeping an “open mind” about the circumstances around today’s attack, which has left three people dead.
The force also confirmed that one man was in hospital in a critical condition after the attacker attempted to run over three people in a van. The other two victims suffered minor injuries.
No one else is being sought in connection with the incident and police have arrested a 31-year-old man on suspicion of murder who remains in police custody.
Chief constable Kate Meynell said counter-terror police were involved in the investigation, though that does not necessarily mean the attack is terror-related.
In a newly released statement, Meynell said:
This is a tragic series of events which has led to the lives of three innocent people being taken and left another member of the public in a critical condition in hospital.
My thoughts are with all the families affected by this shocking incident, and we will be working extremely hard to understand exactly what has happened.
We are at the early stages of the investigation and need to determine the motives behind these attacks and will keep the public updated as soon as we are able to say more.
We are keeping an open mind as we investigate the circumstances surrounding these incidents and are working alongside counter-terrorism policing to establish the facts – as we would normally do in these types of circumstances.
We do have a man in custody who has been arrested on suspicion of murder. Currently, we do not believe there is anyone else involved in this incident.
It is safe to go into the city centre but there are a number of streets that will remain closed including Ilkeston Road, Magdala Street, Milton Street and Maple Street. This is so officers can gather evidence in order to understand what has happened.
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Hours after the attacks, the sequence of events remains unclear
Police believe the first two people they found at around 4am were stabbed. A witness also told the BBC they saw two people being attacked with a knife. Postmortems will determine the cause of death.
The sequence of the attacks, hours after they took place across an area of over a mile and a half, remain unclear.
At some point a van was obtained by the suspect – believed not to be owned by him – and used to drive into three people. They are being treated in hospital, and a mile from that scene a white van is visible with dents to the bonnet and damage to its window.
Hours after the string of attacks, armed police have been involved in raids across the city as the police investigation chases down leads and hunts for evidence.
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People living in Bentinck Road have said they saw police drag a man out of a white van at about 5.30am. Demi Ojolow, a student, has told the PA news agency:
I just saw the police shouting at him to get out of the car and get on the floor. And they dragged him out of the car and he just fell on the floor. He was still pretty wrestling at the point. They dragged him away and that was about it.
Ojolow said police were pointing some kind of weapons at the man, but she was not sure whether they were Tasers or firearms. Nor did she know whether or not the man from the van was armed. Asked what the police shouted, she said: “Get out of the car and get on the floor.”
Another Bentinck Road resident, Dimitrious Lawani, told PA:
Two of [the police officers] were holding what seemed to me to be a Taser. The other one seemed quite a bit bigger than a Taser. I’m not sure what that one was.
Lawani, also a student, said he arrived at the scene just as the man was being pulled out of the van.
There’s two of them pulling him and two behind pointing at him – I think those were Tasers.
He said they shouted: “Get down, get out, stop fighting.” Lawani said:
He was being quite resistive – very resistive from what I could tell – and he was also making a lot of noise but I couldn’t really distinguish what he was saying. Once he was on the floor and the shouting calmed down, I went back to sleep.
His friend, Grace Mambi, said:
It was the police shouting ‘get down’, screaming ‘get down’. That’s the loudest I’ve heard police in my life.
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Police guarding property close to where two people were killed
Police officers are guarding a property at 209 Ilkeston Road, about 400 yards from where two people were killed in Nottingham outside university halls of residence.
Armed police raided the property this afternoon, kicking down the front door to gain access.
At Xclusive Hair Studio barbers next door, Mohammed Qasim said the property had been raided by police last year, but he believed it was empty, and a sold sign had been put up recently.
Further up the street, police entered another property and escorted out two young women, who left in a police car.
The area is predominately occupied by students, many of whom said they were shaken by what happened.
“I was woken up to a phone call from my mum asking if I was OK,” said Joey Buckingham, a Nottingham Trent student.
“I think people are scared and worried in case something similar happens again. It was very close to university accommodation. But most students have gone home for summer now; I’d say only about 20% are still here.”
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Petra Gyuricska and her husband, Miklos Toldi, said they were among the first to discover the body of a man on Magdala Road at 4.30am. They were heading to her workplace when they saw the man lying on his side outside Magdala Tennis Club. Gyuricska told the Guardian:
I was just leaving for work … my husband gave me a lift, and then we were leaving and we saw the body lying ... on the floor, and then we saw the blood and I just told my husband to stop.
I tried to call 999 but I couldn’t get connection. Someone else came as well – [in] another car – and he called.
Gyuricska said she believed he had already died by the time they found him. She told the Guardian:
We stayed … first a police car came, and then another two police cars came, and then an ambulance came. The police, they started CPR but it was too late. I mean, you could just see.
The couple struggled to estimate the man’s age, but agreed he was probably older than 50 years. Toldi said he was dressed in “working clothes” and Gyuricska described him as white.
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Speaking to the same broadcaster, she has added:
I just got off the bus with around 40 other people and we were walking along Market Square to catch our next bus, crossed over the road at Theatre Royal and got around 10ft down the road when all of a sudden we heard a bang which sounded like a vehicle hitting a bollard.
I turned around and then saw the two people on the floor, on the road. Someone was screaming. I think a gentleman ran over to help as well.
The police were there straight away, then the ambulance arrived and they got the two people in the ambulance and got them sent off to whichever hospital.
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Another witness in Nottingham has described the moment she saw a man and a woman hit by a van, with her account tallying largely with that given in respect of the same incident by Lynn Haggitt (see 11.09am).
Frances, who did not publicly give her surname, told Sky News she was on her way to work and was near Theatre Royal in the city centre when she saw the van hit the two people.
There was a male and a female. The female, she could speak. She was in pain from the impact of hitting the ground. She had hit her head but was still able to speak.
Then the gentleman as well took the full brunt of the van and he had head injuries but was still awake. He didn’t lose consciousness, he was still awake at that stage.
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Armed police officers, some wearing balaclavas, have been seen on Ilkeston Road, a few hundred yards above the main cordon, the PA news agency reports.
Police appeared to enter a commercial property on the street, with two young women eventually put in the back of a marked car. Several unmarked police vehicles carrying armed officers then left, after the section of the road was cordoned off.
Here’s a map showing where the incidents we know of so far happened:
We reported earlier that a van was being guarded by police on a street to the north-west of Nottingham city centre (see 11.46am). A little more detail from the PA news agency, which says that – viewed from the other side of the cordon – the van has clear damage to its bonnet and windscreen.
There are two dents on the bonnet, just above the radiator grille, and two sets of corresponding cracks radiating out from two points on the windscreen, the agency reports.
Residents gathered at the cordon said they were disturbed by shouting just before 5.30am, but that this was not unusual because the street is home to several drug rehabilitation establishments.
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A witness has told the BBC he saw a young man and young woman being stabbed on Ilkeston Road, close to the junction with Bright Street in Nottingham, at about 4am.
The man, who did not give his name, told the broadcaster he heard “awful, bloodcurdling screams” and looked out his window to see a “black guy dressed all in black with a hood and rucksack grappling with some people”.
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. 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 man said he called the police, who arrived within five minutes, before paramedics tried to revive the pair for 40 minutes.
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Two police patrol cars were parked inside a cordon near the TK Maxx store on Milton Street, with armed police present, the PA news agency reports.
An adjacent cordon stretching several hundred metres along Mansfield Road was also in place, in the direction of the fatality in Magdala Road. A person who entered the Milton Street cordon shorty before 11.30am was taken to the ground by police officers near a McDonald’s restaurant, before being carried to a police van and driven away.
The area around a white Vauxhall Vivaro van left on a street to the north-west of Nottingham city centre has been cordoned off, the PA news agency reports.
The van had been left a short distance from the pavement, with its passenger door open, and what looked like a black bag on the road near the door. Police were guarding the cordon by a convenience store. However, they were staying clear of the vehicle, with no forensic activity evidently under way.
Kane Brady, a student at the University of Nottingham, told GB News he saw a knife being taken from a white van after a man was arrested outside his house on the street.
We woke up to shouts of ‘armed police’ and what … sounded like some very loud noises, what sounded like gunshots – it was that loud.
I looked out the bedroom window and saw Tasers. I saw a man being dragged out [of the van] and pinned to the floor. I saw him getting arrested, him trying to resist.
I then later saw when they opened the van, I saw a large knife being pulled out and then straight away that’s when police closed off both roads, both Maples Street and Bentinck Road.
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The city’s two professional football clubs, Nottingham Forest and Notts County, have reacted to the incident. The former has tweeted:
We are devastated to learn the news of the horrific events that took place in Nottingham this morning. The thoughts of everyone at #NFFC are with the friends and families of those who have tragically lost their lives and to everyone affected by this incident.
We are devastated to learn the news of the horrific events that took place in Nottingham this morning.
— Nottingham Forest (@NFFC) June 13, 2023
The thoughts of everyone at #NFFC are with the friends and families of those who have tragically lost their lives and to everyone affected by this incident. https://t.co/1ygwoLDBpV
The latter said the news was “devastating”.
Our thoughts are with everyone affected by this devastating news. https://t.co/gjC9NqWuh8
— Notts County FC (@Official_NCFC) June 13, 2023
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What do we know so far?
Here’s a quick roundup of the substantial updates we’ve had:
Three people have been found dead in Nottingham, in what police described as a “horrific and tragic incident”
A 31-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder after two people were found dead in the street in Ilkeston Road just after 4am on Tuesday. A third man was found dead in Magdala Road, Nottinghamshire police said
Another three people are in hospital after someone tried to run them over in a van in Milton Street, in what police believe was a connected incident
Counter-terror police are helping with the investigation, though this does not necessarily mean the incident is believed to be an act of terrorism
Police cordoned off around 400 yards of the scene at Ilkeston Road with tape, and what appeared to be medical kit was scattered across the road.
The PA news agency reports that two forensic officers arrived and appeared to spend the majority of their time at a bathroom and plumbing business called Willbond. The forensic officers eventually left the scene on foot with a black crate and large plastic bag.
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A witness, Lynn Haggitt, has said she saw a van hitting two people in Nottingham. She told Channel 4 News:
At half past five, I saw a van pull up at the side of me. It was white, all white. There was a police car behind it coming up slowly, no flashing lights. The man in the driver’s seat looked in his mirror and saw the police car behind him.
She said the white van then drove up to “the corner of the street and went into two people”.
The lady ended up on the kerb, and then he backed up the white van and he went, speeded up Parliament Street with the police cars following him.
Asked if the people hit were hurt badly, she said a man appeared to have a head injury. “They did get him to his feet,” she added, and said of the woman who was hit: “She was sitting up on the kerb, to me she looked OK”.
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The home secretary, Suella Braverman, has said she is saddened at the deaths in Nottingham, and has spoken with the chief constable of Nottinghamshire police. She tweeted:
I am shocked and saddened that three people have lost their lives today in Nottingham. My thoughts are with those affected by this incident ... I am thankful to the emergency services for their response.
I am shocked & saddened that three people have lost their lives today in Nottingham. My thoughts are with those affected by this incident.
— Suella Braverman MP (@SuellaBraverman) June 13, 2023
I have spoken to @nottspolice Chief Constable & am receiving regular updates. I am thankful to the emergency services for their response.
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Nottingham’s three members of parliament – Nadia Whittome, Alex Norris and Lilian Greenwood – have released a joint statement on this morning’s incident:
Our city has been devastated by the deaths of three people this morning. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and loved ones of those who have died and those injured.
We are grateful for the efforts of the city’s emergency responders in tackling these incidents. They must be allowed to do their jobs in investigating them.
Nottingham is a beautiful city, home to brilliant people from all backgrounds. We are shaken by today’s events but will meet them collectively as a community and heal together.
Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, addressed the incident during a talk at London Tech Week this morning.
There has been a serious incident in Nottingham this morning … Three people have lost their lives, so I’m sure I speak for everybody in this room when I say we’d like to just send our thoughts to all those affected and the emergency services who are responding to this as we speak.
Rishi Sunak says his thoughts are with those who have lost loved ones, and the injured
The prime minister, Rishi Sunak, has said his thoughts are with those who have lost loved ones. He tweeted:
I want to thank the police and emergency services for their ongoing response to the shocking incident in Nottingham this morning. I am being kept updated on developments. The police must be given the time to undertake their work. My thoughts are with those injured, and the family and loved ones of those who have lost their lives.
I want to thank the police and emergency services for their ongoing response to the shocking incident in Nottingham this morning.
— Rishi Sunak (@RishiSunak) June 13, 2023
I am being kept updated on developments. The police must be given the time to undertake their work.
My thoughts are with those injured, and the…
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The MP for Nottingham North, Alex Norris, has said the community sends its thoughts and prayers after the incident. He tweeted:
Awful news for our city to wake up to today. Our community’s thoughts and prayers are with all those affected. Our gratitude is with our blue light responders for their work today also.
Awful news for our city to wake up to today. Our community’s thoughts and prayers are with all those affected. Our gratitude is with our blue light responders for their work today also.
— Alex Norris MP (@AlexNorrisNN) June 13, 2023
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Counter-terrorism police understood to be assisting investigation
Counter-terrorism police are understood to be assisting the investigation as detectives try to understand what triggered the incidents. Regular police remain in the lead, several hours after the first attack, which was just after 4am.
The three attacks have not been declared a terrorist incident, with police urgently investigating the background of the man they have in custody as they try to determine a motive.
To understand what happened, police will try to find and examine any phones or computers the suspect used.
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Road closures in place include Ilkeston Road, Milton Street, Maples Street and Woodborough Road, from the junction with Magdala Road into the city.
The tram network is also disrupted, with all services suspended on the Nottingham Express Transit (NET) as the police investigation continued.
Glen Gretton, a local resident, said he was woken up at around 5am on Tuesday morning by the sounds of a series of police cars passing his home. The 46-year-old delivery driver, who lives in a flat in Mansfield Road in Sherwood, told the PA news agency:
I heard a police car go past. It was driving extremely quickly, followed by another one, another one. They just kept coming so I knew something quite major ... was happening somewhere around the city centre.
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What do we know so far?
Police have said two people were found dead in the street in Ilkeston Road just after 4am this morning.
A third man was found dead in Magdala Road.
Another three people are in hospital after someone tried to run them over in a van in Milton Street, in what police believe is a connected incident.
A 31-year-old man has since been arrested.
Police have said they are still “working to establish exactly what has happened”.
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We’ve got a bit more detail from Nottinghamshire police.
Chief constable Kate Meynell said:
This is an horrific and tragic incident which has claimed the lives of three people.
We believe these three incidents are all linked and we have a man in custody.
This investigation is at its early stages and a team of detectives is working to establish exactly what has happened.
We ask the public to be patient while inquiries continue. At this time, a number of roads in the city will remain closed as this investigation progresses.
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Man arrested after three people killed in Nottingham
A 31-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after three people were killed in Nottingham city centre early this morning.
A Nottinghamshire police statement read:
A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after three people were killed in the city.
Police were called to Ilkeston Road just after 4am where two people were found dead in the street.
Officers were then called to another incident in Milton Street where a van had attempted to run over three people. They are currently being treated in hospital.
A man has also been found dead in Magdala Road.
Police have arrested a 31-year-old man on suspicion of murder and he remains in police custody.
This is a developing situation and we will bring you the latest updates as we get them.
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