The second student victim of the attack in Nottingham has been named as Grace Kumar.
Grace is understood to be one of two 19-year-olds killed in the attack in the city centre this morning, NottinghamshireLive reports.
It is said she was walking home from a nightclub with the other student victim, Barnaby Webber, when they were stabbed in Ilkeston Road.
The University of Nottingham said Grace was a talented hockey player in the first team.
A third victim, a 51-year-old man, was found dead not far away in Magdala Road.
At a press conference Chief Constable Kate Meynell said it was believed the older man’s van had been stolen and was driven at three people in Milton Street.
Three people remain in hospital.
One man remains in hospital in a critical condition while two others suffered minor injuries following that incident.
A 31-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder.
Witnesses said they saw heard ‘blood-curdling’ screams and saw a young man and woman being stabbed close to the junction with Bright Street.
The man, who did not give his name, said he looked out of his window to see a ‘black guy dressed all in black with a hood and rucksack grappling with some people’.
He said: ‘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.’
The man said he called the police, who arrived within five minutes, before paramedics tried for 40 minutes to revive the pair.
Pictures of the arrest show a white Vauxhall Vivaro with two cracks in the windscreen as cops detained the suspect.
A student told GB News: ‘We woke up at about 5.30am this morning to what sounded like gunshots.
‘We ran to the window and there were armed police running out of what looked like an undercover car.
‘Then the suspect was in a van and was tasered and dragged out and then later arrested.
‘We didn’t see any shots but it sounded like them and the glass is all smashed in the van.
‘He was taken out the van and he had the cuffs on him and he was arrested.’
Chief Constable Meynell said Nottinghamshire Police is still in the ‘early stages’ of the investigation and they were still working on determining a motive for the attack.
She added: ‘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.
‘A team of dedicated detectives are investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident and will continue to gather evidence over the coming days.’
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak thanked the emergency services for their response to the ‘shocking incident’, adding: ‘My thoughts are with those injured, and the family and loved ones of those who have lost their lives.’
Home Secretary Suella Braverman also expressed her shock at the deaths, and said she is receiving regular updates from Nottinghamshire Police.
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