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Police Treating Stabbing Of 3 At U.K. Train Station As Terrorism

On New Year's Eve, a man with a knife was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after three people were stabbed at a busy railway station in Manchester, England.
Police stand near a cordon at Manchester Victoria Station on Tuesday after an attack on New Year's Eve sent three people to the hospital with knife injuries.

A man accused of stabbing three people at a busy railway station in Manchester, England, on Monday is in custody. Authorities said Tuesday that the incident is being treated as a terrorist attack.

Just before 9 p.m. local time on New Year's Eve, fourfrom the agency.

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