Five people have been taken to hospital after a 'mass stabbing' following a brawl outside of a Bournemouth college.
Five people have been taken to hospital after a ‘mass stabbing’ following a brawl outside of a Bournemouth college.
Two people have since been arrested on suspicion of ‘wounding with intent’, the Daily Echo reported, following a large emergency services presence.
A third person was also arrested on suspicion of assault by beating, as South Western Ambulance Service said it has took five patients to hospital.
A spokesperson for Bournemouth & Poole College said in a statement: ‘Police are currently in attendance, and our team is assisting them as required.
‘Due to the incident being a police matter, we are unable to comment further at this point in time.’
The college is a further and higher educational college based over three sites in both Bournemouth and Poole.
Student Henry Tootal, 20, told the Bournemouth Echo: ‘We saw all the police cars and three people being taken out on stretchers and [sic] people have been injured. We saw two people surrounded by armed policemen outside the hotel.’
Another woman who witnessed the incident told them: ‘I suddenly saw this mass brawl. There were 10 on each side and they were fighting.
‘I think they were two groups of college students. I saw one of them lifting another boy’s shirt up to check if he had been hurt.’
The incident reportedly occurred on Meyrick Road and five ambulances, nine police and three unmarked cars arrived at the scene.
The severity of the injuries are not known, but one victim was taken to Southampton Hospital -a major trauma centre.
A spokesperson for the South Western Ambulance Service said: ‘We were called at 14:54hrs on January 25 to an incident on Meyrick Road, Bournemouth.
‘We sent five double-crewed ambulances, three air ambulances, and two operations officers.
‘We conveyed four patients by land ambulance to Poole Hospital and one patient by land ambulance to Southampton General Hospital.’
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