NEW YORK – Moments of strong tension in the afternoon of Monday in Times Square, a few steps from the New York editorial office, where a woman armed with knives stabbed two people before being wounded by some NYPD agents.
The incident occurred around 4:27 in the afternoon, in the area between Seventh Avenue and 42nd and 43rd Street, one of the most frequented areas of Manhattan. According to the NYPD and reported by ABC7, shortly before the firefighters had intervened after reporting a stabbed person.
The woman would threaten some people with two knives and hit a man and a woman. Immediately afterwards he would have fled north, towards NYPD station in Times Square.
The agents reached her and they would have told her to drop the weapons. According to the preliminary reconstruction of the police, the woman would not obey the orders and the agents then opened the fire, ferendola.
The woman and the two stabbed people were transported to the hospital. ABC7 reports that their conditions would be serious. At the moment the identity of the people involved has not been spread.
NYPD has asked residents and tourists to avoid the area, reporting road closures, slowdowns and possible public transport in the vicinity of Times Square. The presence of law enforcement forces remains significant while the investigations continue on the dynamics of the incident.
The investigation is underway and the reconstruction of the facts can be updated in the coming hours with further information from the authorities.
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