List of mass stabbing incidents (2020–present)
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This is a list of mass stabbings that took place in the 2020s.
2020
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Streatham, England
Midland, Texas
On 14 March 2020, Hispanic American man, 18, attacked an Asian family at a Sam's Club in Midland. After grabbing a knife from a store display, the attacker punched the father and cut him before attacking two of his sons, aged two and six. A Sam's Club employee and a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer held the attacker down, with the store employee being stabbed in the process. The attacker yelled for the family to "get out of America" during the attack and later told police he attacked them because he believed they were Chinese and responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, though the family was actually Burmese. The attacker pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges and was sentenced to 25 years in prison.[1][2]
Romans-sur-Isère, France
Knoxville, Tennessee
South Hedland, Australia
On 1 May, A fly-in fly-out worker from Perth attacked seven people in a shopping centre. None died but five were hospitalised. Police shot the attacker dead [3]
Vrútsky, Slovakia
On 11 June, one person was killed and five others were killed in a mass murder at a school, The perpetrator was shot dead [4]
Reading, England
Glasgow, Scotland
At approximately 12:50 pm on 26 June 2020, a man stabbed six people in the Park Inn Hotel, West George Street in the city centre of Glasgow, Scotland.[5] The attacker was cornered in an upstairs room of the hotel where he was shot dead by a police officer.[6] Earlier, a police officer had responded to the initial call for emergency services to attend the scene and was injured shortly after arriving at the hotel. Armed response units were then called to the scene, before evacuating all staff members and asylum seekers to safety before attempting to apprehend the attacker.[7]
The attacker stabbed and injured six people, including a police officer and hotel staff.[6] The 42-year-old male police officer confronted the attacker and suffered serious injuries to his neck, abdomen, and leg.[8] He later recovered and left the hospital.[5] A 17-year-old boy from Sierra Leone was stabbed in his abdomen after a struggle with the attacker. The other injured men are two asylum seekers and two hotel staff members, aged 18, 20, 38, and 53; all were admitted into hospital.[7][9] One was in critical condition.[10]
At the time of the attack, the Park Inn Hotel had been closed to all potential guests due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and was instead being used by Mears Group to accommodate asylum seekers.[11][12] A spokeswoman for the campaign group Positive Action In Housing said the hotel was housing asylum seekers for the Mears Group, a housing and social care provider; 100 asylum seekers were said to have been residing there.[13][14]
The attacker, Badreddin Abadlla Adam,[10][15][16] was a 28-year-old male asylum seeker from Sudan who had arrived in the UK six months earlier.[17] He went on a rampage after numerous reports had been made to the relevant authorities by charities and other asylum seekers residing in Park Inn Hotel, who were concerned about his deteriorating mental health, and the potential risk he posed to himself and others.[18]
Police Scotland announced that the stabbing was not being treated as a terrorist incident.[19] Police Scotland Assistant Chief Constable Steve Johnson said, "As would be the case in any police discharge of firearms involving a fatality, the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service has instructed the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner to investigate."[20] Detectives are investigating whether the attacker was in any way inspired by the mass stabbing attack in Reading six days prior.[21]
Sarpsborg, Norway
On 15 July, a woman was killed and two more were injured in a series of stabbings. The perpetrator was arrested [22]
Manchester, England
On 26 July 2020, four people were stabbed in Moss Side in Manchester, England. 17-year-old Mohamoud Mohamed died at the scene.[23] The incident was the result of a gangland feud between Rusholme Crips and Moss Side's AO, or, 'Active Only'. Both gangs are believed to have grown out of Manchester's notorious Gooch and Doddington outfits.[24][25][26] The attack happened a month after a mass shooting in the same area that killed two people.[27]
Police were called to a disturbance in Henbury Street, Moss Side, at 7:30 pm.[28] A murder investigation was launched following the death of one of the victims, teenager Mohamoud Mohamed.[29][30] The alleged perpetrators and members of Moss Side's AO were arrested the next day. On 12 February 2021, four men were convicted of manslaughter; Daneaco Reid, 19; Jamall Walters, 18; Romeo Daley, 18; and a 17-year-old boy. They were all arrested and charged with murder.[31]
Members of the two rival Manchester gangs would often release music and videos taunting and threatening each other, which some believe has led to more violence. In court, some of the music from AO's members was played, lyrics to one particular track said: "I swear that's Mo let's kill him, kill him...". The gang members and music artists often express their allegiance in music through the use of certain hand signals, and wearing different colours, Moss Side's AO wearing the red bandana, and Rusholme Crips wearing light blue.[32]
Paris, France
On 25 September 2020, two people were injured in a stabbing outside the former headquarters of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris. The magazine's headquarters had previously been the site of an Islamic terrorist attack in 2015.[33] The French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin considered this to be "clearly an act of Islamist terrorism."[34] A man from Pakistan, suspected of carrying out the attacks, was arrested near the scene.[35] Six other suspects were subsequently arrested in Paris in connection with the attack.[36]
The main suspect was identified as a 25-year-old Pakistani man,[37] who is charged with "attempted murder in association with a terrorist enterprise."[38][39] The suspect acknowledged having carried out the attack for religious reasons.[40] He claimed to be 18 in order to be eligible for social welfare benefits.[37] Before the attack, he stated in a video that he was seeking vengeance against Charlie Hebdo for publishing caricatures of Islam's prophet Muhammad.[41] The suspect left his village in the Punjab region in Pakistan in early 2018 and came to Europe, following his brothers and other young men from the village. According to Associated Press, villagers considered the suspect a hero for carrying out the Paris attack. The suspect's father championed his son's actions, but was warned by Pakistani police against speaking publicly.[41] In France, the suspect moved to Pantin, a working-class district with many immigrants from North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa and Pakistan. He shared an apartment with several other Pakistanis above a Hookah bar.[41]
In December 2020, four Pakistanis aged 17 to 21 were found to have been in contact with the assailant by authorities and were taken into custody. Two were apprehended in the Gironde, a third in Caen and the fourth in the Paris region. According to authorities, they had "spread their ideology and one of them had expressed his hatred against France before the attack". The investigation had also found numerous messages published on the TikTok social media network where the suspects expressed their hatred towards Muhammad caricatures and "glorified" the assault by their compatriot.[42]
Zielona Góra, Poland
On 29 September 2020, 3 people were attacked with knives in a school [43]
Nice, France
Quebec City, Quebec
On the night of Halloween 2020, at about 10:30 p.m. local time, a man dressed in a medieval costume carried out a mass stabbing in Quebec City, attacking people with a katana-style saber near the provincial legislature, the National Assembly of Quebec. The victims were chosen at random. Two people were killed, Suzanne Clermont, a 61-year-old woman and François Duchesne, a 56-year-old man,[44] and five others were injured.
Carl Girouard, a 24-year-old man from Sainte-Thérèse on Montreal's North Shore, was arrested.[45][46] The police reported that the attacker was prepared to inflict as much damage as possible, and had gasoline containers in his car. The man was not affiliated with any terror group, according to police, but his motivations are unknown.[47][48] Police said that the man had, five years prior, expressed to a doctor threats to perform similar actions.[46][49] On 18 June 2021, Prosecutor François Godin filed a direct indictment, with Girouard set to go directly to trial without a preliminary hearing.[50] On 20 May 2022, after five days of deliberation, Carl Girouard was convicted of the first degree murders of François Duchesne and Suzanne Clermont. He faced life in prison with no possibility of parole within the next 25 years.[51]
Kaiyuan, China
On 27 December 2020, a man stabbed fourteen people in Kaiyuan, China, killing seven.[52] As the school was closed at the time of the incident, no students or teachers were hurt. The victims were all passersby, mainly middle-aged or elderly women. The attacker then stabbed and wounded a policeman before being arrested.[53] The suspect, identified as Yang Moufeng, is a man in his 60s.[54]
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Mwenda, Democratic Republic of the Congo
On 4 January 22 people were killed in a mass stabbing committed by the ADF [55]
Vetlanda, Sweden
Some minutes before 14:55 local time, near the street of Bangårdsgatan in the southern Swedish locality of Vetlanda, a man went on a 19-minute mass stabbing rampage in the streets,[56] attacking random pedestrians with a knife.[57] The police received its first emergency calls at 14:54 local time, with the first patrol arriving at 15:10. Three minutes later, the attacker was shot by police and wounded, before being arrested.[56] Police said that five different crime scenes were identified, hundreds of metres apart.[58] The police investigation concluded that the attack was not a terrorist act.[59] An investigation by the Swedish National Board of Forensic Medicine found that the perpetrator was not suffering from a severe mental disorder (allvarlig psykisk störning, a Swedish legal term), during the attack. This meant that he could be sent to prison when found guilty instead of a psychiatric institution.[60][61]
Seven civilians were stabbed.[62] The oldest victim was born in 1945, and the youngest was born in 1985.[63] They were all men.[64] All casualties, including the perpetrator, were hospitalised. Three of them were initially in life-threatening, critical condition;[65][66] two were seriously injured, two others were moderately injured and one individual was slightly injured.[67]
The perpetrator is Tamim Sultani, an Afghan who had sought asylum in Sweden claiming to be 22 years old[66][68] and lived in an apartment in Vetlanda.[69] According to public records, he applied for asylum in Norway using an Afghan passport which said he was born in 1988. Norway rejected his application. He then migrated to Sweden in 2018 and applied for asylum again, this time saying he was born in 1999. He received a temporary residence permit which was later extended. The Swedish Migration Agency did not send him back to Norway which they should have according to the Dublin Regulation.[70] He moved to Vetlanda in April 2020,[65] from a nearby town. According to his neighbours he spoke Swedish poorly and had no English knowledge, which made communication with him difficult.[71] He was frequently helped by a woman from the social services. He had a previous conviction for drug offences[72] and was known by the police for committing minor offences.[69]
Sultani was prosecuted by the Eksjö District Court but the trial was held in the high-security premises of Jönköping District Court. The trial started 21 May.[73] He was found guilty of seven attempted murder and a minor narcotics offense. He was sentenced to life in prison and deportation from Sweden and ordered to pay damages to each stabbing victim.[57][68]
Beni, Democratic Republic of the Congo
On 15 March 15 civilians were killed in a stabbing attack. The ADF was suspected to have been behind the attack [74]
North Vancouver, British Columbia
On 27 March 2021, one person was killed and six others were injured in a mass stabbing in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. A man named Yannick Bandaogo was arrested and charged with second-degree murder.[75][76][77][78] In September 2021, he was additionally charged with one count of aggravated assault and five counts of attempted murder.[79][80] Bandaogo did not know any of his victims. On 29 May 2023, he pleaded guilty to all of the charges.[81] On 31 August 2023, he was sentenced to life imprisonment.[82]
Beiliu, China
Potsdam, Germany
On 28 April, 4 people were killed and another one was injured in an attack at a hospital, the perpetrator, identified as a female hospital’s employee, was arrested. The victims were all patients [83]
Saudades, Brazil
Dunedin, New Zealand
Beni, Democratic Republic of the Congo
On 27 May, Islamist militants entered a Congolese town and proceeded to stab people while raiding the village. 22 people were killed. The attack happened only 2 months after a 1st attack killed 15 people [84]
Anqing, China
The 2021 Anqing stabbing attack was a mass stabbing in which seven people were killed and 13 others wounded in Anqing, China on 5 June 2021. The attack is believed to have been committed by a single attacker. The attacker wielded a knife and indiscriminately stabbed pedestrians in the streets. The suspected perpetrator was identified as 25 years old and unemployed when the stabbings had occurred. He was later identified as Liang Wu, and was sentenced to death on 15 November 2021 on counts of homicide.[85] The perpetrator reportedly confessed to the crime and was motivated by his family problems, and was a self described pessimist. He apparently viewed his attack as a way to "vent" from his family issues.[86]
Würzburg, Germany
Tokyo, Japan
Auckland, New Zealand
Killamarsh, England
Kongsberg, Norway
Espen Andersen Bråthen,[a] a 37-year-old Danish citizen born in Norway,[87] attacked eight people with various weapons – including a bow and arrow and knife – at locations in Kongsberg, Buskerud. Five people were killed, and three others were injured.
2022
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Djugu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Albuquerque, New Mexico
On 13 February, a man rode a bicycle through the city stabbing 11 people. He was later caught and taken into custody [88]
Beersheba, Israel
Mashhad, Iran
Bermondsey, England
In the early morning hours of 25 April 2022, neighbours heard screams from a three-bedroomed terraced house in Delaford Road, Bermondsey, in south London, England.[89][90] Police attended at 1:40 am, discovering the bodies of three women and a man inside the house. They were a 64-year-old Jamaican woman, her 58-year-old partner, as well as her 45-year-old daughter, and 28-year-old granddaughter.[89] Police arrested a 28-year-old man at the scene and said they are not looking for anyone else.[89] On 28 April, the man, Joshua Jacques (born 19 April 1994), was charged with four counts of murder.[90] On 21 December 2023, and following a three-week trial at the Old Bailey, Jacques was found guilty of the four murder charges.[91] On 1 March 2024, Jacques was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 46 years.[92]
El'ad, Israel
Aachen, Germany
On 13 May an attack occurred in a train station injuring 6 people. The police arrested an Iraqi man and were investigating if it was a terrorist attack [93]
Buskerud, Norway
On 20 May, three people were injured one critically in attacks in Uvdal and Nore. Police said it was due to a domestic dispute, The perpetrator was a Syrian migrant.[94]
Kressbronn, Germany
On 28 June 1 person was killed and 5 other were injured in an attack at a shelter for asylum-seekers [95]
Shanghai, China
On 9 July 4 people were wounded in a stabbing in a hospital. Police opened fire and subdued the suspect.[96]
Somerset, Wisconsin
Jiangxi, China
Saskatchewan, Canada
Las Vegas, Nevada
On 6 October, a stabbing spree occurred along the Las Vegas Strip, killing two people and injuring at least six.[97][98] The incident occurred in front of the Wynn Casino.[99] It is the deadliest stabbing attack in the United States since the 2020 Knox County stabbing.
Security footage shows a man entering the Wynn Casino, where he reportedly asked the janitor to contact ICE for him so he could return to his home in Guatemala. Shortly afterward, he then told a security guard at the Wynn that he was trying to sell his knives. Just before 11:40 a.m. when performers dressed as showgirls were approached by the suspect outside the hotel, he reportedly told a group of four showgirl impersonators that he was a chef at the Wynn. The suspect asked to take a picture with some of the showgirls for free, but they declined. Soon after, he proceeded to stab two of the showgirls. He then began running and attacked six more people—a combination of locals and tourists—before fleeing, pursued by witnesses.[100] A man in a bloodstained chef's white jacket was arrested a short time later, and police retrieved a knife from nearby bushes that they believed had been thrown there in the retreat.[101] Police reported that the accused thought that his first victims were "laughing at him and making fun of his clothing", and that he continued the attack to "let the anger out".[100]
The suspect was identified as 32-year-old Yoni Barrios, a Guatemalan citizen who U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement believe entered the United States without passing through a border checkpoint.[102] KSNV obtained records of a 2019 domestic violence charge filed against him in California, which was not prosecuted due to a COVID-19 pandemic-related backlog in the court system and the victim's non-appearance in court.[103] His public defender raised mental health concerns at an arraignment hearing the week following his arrest, and in December, two court psychiatrists found Barrios unable to understand court proceedings or the charges against him.[101][104] He was ordered to indefinite care at a state psychiatric facility until found competent to face charges.
Nong Bua Lamphu, Thailand
Ludwigshafen, Germany
On 18 October 2 people were killed and another was injured after a stabbing attack, the perpetrator, a Somali National was arrested.[105]
Assago, Italy
On 27 October 1 person was killed and 5 others including Spanish footballer Pablo Mari were injured in a mass stabbing in a carrefour supermarket. The perpetrator, a man with mental health problems, who used a knife from a shelf was arrested at the scene [106]
Brussels, Belgium
A stabbing attack happened on 10 November 2022 in Brussels, Belgium, killing a police officer and injuring another. Authorities suspect the attack to be terror-related.[107][108] The attacker shouted the Arabic phrase allahu akbar while committing the stabbing.[109]
At around 18:15 (GMT) close to the city's Brussels-North railway station two officers were stabbed before the attacker was shot in the legs and abdomen by another police patrol arriving at the scene. One of the police officers died after being stabbed in the neck. The other wounded officer as well as the attacker were hospitalised.[110]
The suspect is a 32-year-old Belgian-Moroccan named Yassine Mahi, who was born and domiciled in Brussels. He was known to the Belgian security authorities and appeared on a list of radicalized Muslims. In the morning on the same day the stabbing incident happened, he made threats against the police on a police station. Despite the threats he was not arrested but instead brought by the police to the psychiatric unit of the Saint-Luc hospital, where he stayed voluntarily for psychiatric treatment. There he was able to leave the hospital.[111][112] The police checked the criteria for psychiatric surveillance, but because he voluntarily went to psychiatric treatment, the legal criteria was not given.[113]
Ariel, West Bank
On 15 November 2022, a vehicle-ramming and stabbing attack killed three Israelis and wounded three others in the West Bank settlement of Ariel. The attacker started by stabbing a security guard at the entrance to the Ariel Industrial Park and then fatally stabbed two men and wounded another during a knife attack at the Ten gas station which was 60–70 meters away. He left the scene with his vehicle which he rammed into a group of cars, fatally injuring a 50-year-old man from Kiryat Netafim. A civilian exited his car to help the wounded man which the perpetrator used as an opportunity to steal the man's BMW and drive off.[114] He drove the vehicle to an area on the road with traffic where he tried to attack more cars. The killer was shot dead by civilians and security forces,[115][116][117] at around 9:48 am local time, twenty minutes after the attack had started.[116]
An 18-year-old Palestinian man named Mohammed Souf from the village of Haris was identified as the perpetrator. He worked as a cleaner at the Ariel Industrial Park.[115][116] He was associated with the West Bank's ruling Fatah party and his father was a member of the party. Souf did not have a criminal record, but his father had spent time in Israeli prison.[118] His home was demolished by the Israeli military in May 2023.[119]
Moscow, Idaho
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Paris, France
On 11 January 6 people were injured in a mass stabbing in the Gare du Nord train station. The attacker was shot arrested and hospitalised [120]
Brokstedt, Germany
Algeciras, Spain
São Paulo, Brazil
A teacher was killed and 5 other people were injured in a school attack. A 13 year old student was taken to a police station.[121]
Lisbon, Portugal
Blumenau, Brazil
Manaus, Brazil
Santa Tereza de Goiás, Brazil
Duisburg, Germany
On 18 April 4 people were injured in an attack at a gym [122]
Bodmin, United Kingdom
In the early hours of 30 April, a deadly knife fight and stabbing between 2 groups was enemy after argument outside a nightclub in Bodmin, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, left 4 people dead including 1 men beheaded by machete and 7 others injured.[123] 4 people being stabbed who then subsequently died at the scene. Seven other men and women were injured by stab wounds and taken to hospital. Injuries ranged from ‘serious’ to ‘minor’, but none were life-threatening. Five of the injured were released from hospital within 24 hours, and the remaining two remained longer in hospital to recover from surgery.[123]
On 2 May 2023, a local man, Jake Hill, 24, of Jubilee Terrace, Bodmin, was charged with one count of murder, three counts of attempted murder and two counts of Section 18 causing grievous bodily harm with intent.[124] On 4 May, the judge said that the public should refrain from discussing the case, in order to guarantee a fair trial.[125]
A tribute site was set up at Bodmin RFC, where people could gather to remember Michael Allen, pay their respects and lay flowers.[126] Additionally, the local Bodmin Youth FC football team closed its nearby ground at Coldharbour after the incident and cancelled training on 3 and 4 May 2023 out of respect.[127]
On 12 April 2024, and following a trial at Truro Crown Court, Jake Hill was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 28 years for the murder of Michael Riddiough-Allen.[128]
Tomisławice, Poland
On 10 May, a 19 year old man went on a rampage in an orphanage killing a 16 year old girl and injuring 9 other people.[129]
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
On 14 May, four women were injured after being stabbed during a fight at an apartment building on Milwaukee's northside. Two women and a teenage girl were later apprehended. Afterwards, ten knives were reportedly recovered from the scene.[130][131]
Eskilstuna, Sweden
On 1 June, four people were injured in an attack at a school [132]
Annecy, France
Nottingham, United Kingdom
Mpondwe, Uganda
Lianjiang, China
Seoul, South Korea
On 21 July, 1 person was killed and 3 other were injured in a stabbing attack near subway station. The attacker was apprehended.[133]
Santiago, Chile
Between 31 August and 1 September 2023, Begoña Lauga Blanco, an engineer in Las Condes, stabbed her three children (one of whom suffered from Down syndrome) to death, one-by-one, with a knife before alerting her husband via WhatsApp about the murders and finally slitting her own throat. When her husband arrived, Lauga was alive but injured. By the time paramedics arrived on scene, she had bled out to death. It was later revealed she suffered from clinical depression and her husband had just started divorce proceedings.[134][135][136]
Canberra, Australia
On 18 September, 3 people were injured in a mass stabbing at the Australian national university, the attacker was detained.[137]
Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
Arras, France
On 13 October 2023, a mass stabbing occurred at the Gambetta-Carnot secondary school in Arras, Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France. One person was killed, and three others were seriously wounded. The attack was postulated to be connected to rumours that Hamas had called for a global day of terrorism on the 13th.[138][139] The suspect was previously known to the French security services for his involvement with radical Islamism.[140][141]At around 11:00 CEST on 13 October 2023, the attack began in the school's car park.[142][143] According to witnesses the suspect was heard shouting "Allahu akbar" during the attack.[144] The attacker was confronted by a teacher and other members of staff including the headmaster before being detained by police.[142][145] A French language teacher, Dominique Bernard, was killed while another teacher, a security guard and a cleaner were seriously injured.[146][147]
The suspected attacker is a Russian man of Ingush origin[148] who was born in 2003 and moved to France with his family in 2008.[142] Police had arrested him the previous day on suspicion of radicalism.[146] The suspect was known to the French security services for his involvement with radical Islamism; he was arrested by police.[149] The suspect was listed at a state list of potential dangerous persons and the domestic secret service DGSI is said to have, among other things, intercepted his telephone conversations.[150] The suspect is a former student of the school and his younger brother was also detained on the same day.[151] The attacker pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and expressed his hatred for France.[152]
The funeral of Bernard was held in the Arras cathedral with screens used to broadcast the hundred watching outside. Bernard was posthumously awarded the Legion of Honor by French President Macron.[153] Immediately after the attack France mobilized at least 7,000 soldiers to be stationed around the country for an increase in security.[154] Classes were canceled at the Gambetta-Carnot school where Bernard taught, and bomb threats were seen across the country, in airports, the Louvre Museum and the Palace of Versailles.[153] The school was subject to a bomb threat after Bernard's death but as it had only been open to allow pupils and staff to pay tribute to Bernard and other victims, the process of evacuation was quick.[155]
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
On the evening 23 October 15-year-old Erik Mendoza stabbed three people within minutes of each other on Milwaukee's northside at random.[156]
- The first stabbing occurred around 6:50 p.m. when an 18-year-old man was stabbed in the back near the intersection of 42nd and North Avenue.
- At around 7:07 p.m., a 14-year-old boy was stabbed in the shoulder while walking near the intersection of 35th and Center Street.
- The last stabbing occurred around 7:15 p.m, at the intersection of Sherman Boulevard and Center Street, when a 38-year-old year old woman was stabbed in the back of the neck as she waited at a bus stop.
Two days later, on 26 October, Mendoza, along with 27-year-old David Pietura, allegedly killed 5-year-old Prince McCree in the basement house they shared shared with McCree. In July 2024, Pietura was sentenced to life in prison without parole for his role in McCree's death. Mendoza currently awaits trial.[157][158]
Crépol, France
On the night of 19 November, a group of around 10 people armed with knives attacked people at a village festival in Crépol, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. Seventeen people were wounded, three critically; a 16-year-old boy was killed.[159][160]
Dublin, Ireland
Los Angeles, California
Ruston, Louisiana
A senior student at Louisiana Tech University was charged with stabbing four women on campus on 13 November 2023, killing one. According to police, the suspect first threatened a student playing basketball inside the Lambright Sports and Wellness Center before chasing him outside. The man then stabbed two women leaving an exercise class, killing one. The man then attacked another woman who taught a class at the center, as well as a woman to attempted to intervene.[163]
Paris, France
On 2 December 2023, a French man of Iranian origin carried out a knife and hammer attack against three people near Pont de Bir-Hakeim in Paris, France, killing one of them.[164]
On Quai de Grenelle in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, just before 21:00 CET (20:00 GMT) on 2 December 2023, a man attacked three people using a knife and hammer as he allegedly shouted Allahu Akbar.[164] One victim was killed.[164]
Police tasered the suspect near the scene[165] and arrested him for premeditated murder and terrorist-motivated attempted murder.[164] President Emmanuel Macron described it as a terrorist attack.[164]
The fatally attacked victim was a young man who was a tourist from the Philippines, who had immigrated to Germany.[164] He was a nurse who was a naturalised German citizen.[164] The surviving victims are a Frenchman aged around 60 and a 66-year-old British tourist.[164][165]
The suspect is Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoabis, a 26-year-old man who has mental health problems.[164][165] He was born in France in 1997 to Iranian parents who fled the Iranian Revolution in 1979.[164][165][166] He acquired French nationality on 20 March 2002, through the collective effet of his parents' naturalization.[167][168] His birth first name was Iman, but it was changed in 2003.[168] He was released from prison in 2020 after serving four years for planning an attack. He has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.[164]
New York City, New York
On 3 December, A man stabbed and killed 4 of his family member and injured another one before he went on to attack 2 police officers before he was shot dead [169]
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Rizhao, China
On 10 February 2024, the first day of the Chinese New Year, a man reportedly attacked multiple people in Zhaike Village, a settlement in Rizhao's Ju County in Shandong, China, with a knife and some type of firearm. Also known as the Ju County massacre (Chinese: 莒县惨案) or Zhaike Village massacre, the incident left at least 21 people dead, including one doctor and two police officers,[170][171][unreliable source?] and many more injured. Details of the bloodshed remain unclear and unconfirmed due to strict government censorship.[172] Some reports indicated that additional attackers were involved.
Wutterpal, Germany
On February 22, a student stabbed 5 people in a school before attempting to commit suicide and getting arrested [173]
Vienna, Austria
On 23 February, 3 women were stabbed to death in a brothel. A 27 year old suspect was arrested.[174]
Guadalajara, Mexico
On 6 March, 3 people were killed after a student at a school attacked people with a knife and an axe [175]
Ottawa, Canada
On March 6, 2024, the Wickramasinghe family, Sri Lankan immigrants, were fatally stabbed inside of their house in Barrhaven, a suburb of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Four children were killed, along with their mother, a male family friend and their father was injured. It was the worst mass killing in the city's recent history.[176]
Febrio De-Zoysa, 19, a Sri Lankan former Algonquin College student residing with the family, was arrested in connection with the incident, and was charged with six counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder.[177][178]Honolulu, Hawaii
On 10 March 2024. A man fatally stabbed his wife and three children, aged 17, 12, and 10, at a residence located in the Manoa neighborhood. The man then committed suicide. He did this because the family was in financial distress.[179]
Cullinan, South Africa
On 12 March 3 Coptic Christian monks from Egypt were stabbed to death in an orthodox church. A 4th person was reportedly hit with an iron rod.[180]
Río Bueno, Chile
On 25 March, Francisco Uribe Obando stabbed a pregnant woman, her husband of 12 years, and their 10-year-old daughter to death.[181] The suspect has since been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia and is awaiting trial.[182]
Rockford, Illinois
On March 27, 2024, four people were killed and seven others were injured in a mass stabbing in and near Rockford, Illinois, with the fatalities entailing two men, a woman, and a 15-year-old girl. A suspect, 22-year-old Christian Ivan Soto, of Rockford, was taken into custody and charged with several counts of first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, and home invasion.
Bondi Junction, Australia
Wakeley, Australia
Ammanford, Wales
London, England
Zhenxiong, China
On 7 May, a 40-year-old man stabbed two people to death and injured 21 others in a knife attack before being arrested. He had been imprisoned before due to injuring others over a motorcycle dispute in 2013.[183]
Zofingen, Switzerland
On 15 May, a stabbing attack occurred in a railway station in the northern Swiss town of Zofingen leaving 6 injured. The perpetrator was arrested afterwards [184]
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
On 16 May, 4 people were injured with a knife at a tennis club [185]
Norilsk, Russia
On 18 May, a 34-year-old man killed a 36-year-old woman in her apartment, injured her 12-year-old son, then exited and injured a man and a woman he did not know and was arrested.[186]
Taichung, Taiwan
Massachusetts and Connecticut, United States
On 25 May 2024, a 26-year-old Martha's Vineyard man allegedly stabbed four girls at the AMC Braintree 10 movie theater in Braintree, Massachusetts. Hours later, the same man allegedly stabbed two McDonald's employees at a restaurant in Quincy. He was arrested in Sandwich later that day and was charged in connection with those stabbings, as well as the stabbing death of a man in Deep River, Connecticut, believed to have been committed before the movie theater stabbing.[187]
Mannheim, Germany
Jilin City, China
On 10 June 2024, four Americans from Cornell College, Iowa were stabbed while visiting a temple in Beishan Park, along with one Chinese national.[188]
Charlotte, North Carolina
On 12 and 13 June 2024, a 19-year-old man stabbed three people in different neighborhoods throughout Charlotte.[189]
Indianapolis, Indiana
On 17 June 2024, a 27-year-old man stabbed and injured nine people during a confrontation between two groups outside of a restaurant on Indianapolis's northwest side. The man was later arrested.[190][191]
Huntington Beach, California
On 4 July 2024, two people were killed and three others were injured when a man exited a vehicle and began stabbing people celebrating Independence Day on a residential street.[192]
Hayes, England
Between 3 and 8 July 2024 four men were attacked in Hayes, West London by a man described by the officers as a being a muscular black male with straight hair aged around 35, carrying a knife.[193]
- In the first incident, A 42-year-old man suffered an injury to his ear when he was attacked in the morning of Wednesday 3 July.
- On Sunday 7 July a 41-year-old man sustained multiple cuts around his face and neck when he was attacked in the same location as the previous incident.
- Later the same day, a man was slashed in the face with a knife.
- In the early hours of Monday 8 July, a 47-year-old man suffered an injury to his eye after being attacked by the same perpetrator.
Tagaytay, Philippines
On 10 July 3 people were stabbed to death in a hotel in the Philippines including 2 Australian tourists [194]
Southport, England
Holon, Israel
On 4 August 2024, a mass stabbing targeting civilians occurred at three nearby locations in Holon. The attack resulted in the deaths of two elderly individuals—a 66-year-old woman and an 80-year-old man—while two others were injured.[195] The attacker, a 35-year-old Palestinian man from Salfit, West Bank, was shot and killed at the scene by a police officer.[196] Palestinian militant organization Hamas later issued a statement mourning the perpetrator, describing him as a "martyred hero."[196]
New York City, New York
Shortly before midnight on 4 August 2024, a man stabbed and injured five men outside of a bar in Queens during a fight. Afterwards, the attacker fled the scene.[197]
Eskisehir, Turkey
On 12 August 2024, a mass stabbing occurred outside of a mosque in Eskisehir. The attacker, identified as 18-year-old Arda Küçükyetim, stabbed and wounded five people before being arrested. He was caught with an axe, a bulletproof vest and helmet, all adorned with neo-Nazi symbology.[198]
Solingen, Germany
On the evening of 23 August 2024, a man armed with a knife attacked several people at a festival in Solingen marking the city's 650 years. The stabbing resulted in at least three fatalities and multiple severe injuries.[199][200] The perpetrator, described by witnesses as appearing of Arab descent, fled the scene and initially remained at large.[201] The Islamic State later claimed responsibility for the attack.[202] Later the suspect turned himself in to police.[203]
Engadine, Australia
On 25 August 4 people were injured in a stabbing attack in a car after a domestic incident. The perpetrator was later taken into custody [204]
Eiserfeld, Germany
On 30 August, at around 7:40 p.m., a 32-year-old woman armed with a knife stabbed and wounded five people on a bus on Freiengründer Strasse on its way to a music festival. The suspect was detained and did not resist arrest.[205]
Azambuja, Portugal
Around lunchtime on 17 September 2024, a 12-year-old boy armed with a knife, and wearing a bulletproof vest, stabbed six classmates at a school in Azambuja, near Lisbon. Shortly after, the police arrested the attacker.[206] Police later found evidence that the 12-year-old attacker was being influenced by Nazi ideology.[207]
Châteauguay, Canada
Three people were stabbed and injured when a man armed with a knife entered a mosque on 20 September in Châteauguay, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.[208]
New York City, New York
Six people were stabbed and injured in the early hours of 22 September in the Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn.[209]
Shanghai, China
On 30 September, a 37-year-old man stabbed and killed 3 people and injured 15 others at a supermarket in Shanghai’s Songjiang district. The suspect was later arrested.[210]
Zurich, Switzerland
On 1 October, three children were injured—one of them seriously—in a knife attack at a daycare center in the Swiss city of Zurich. A spokesperson for the city's police force stated that a 23-year-old Chinese man attacked a group of children who were being led to the center by a staff member.
Ontario, Canada
Between 1 and 3 October, three people were fatally stabbed in Toronto, Hamilton, and Niagara Falls.[211]
Redding, California
A woman was killed and three other men were injured when a 31-year-old local man at a hotel suddenly attacked without provocation during a meeting on 8 October in Downtown Redding. The suspect was later arrested.[212]
Hadera, Israel
Cincinnati, Ohio
On 24 October, a 66-year-old man stabbed 3 people to death before stabbing his self at college hill in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was arrested and later died from his wounds [213]
Montréal, Canada
On 25 October 4 people were injured after 2 teenagers went amok in a school. They were both arrested [214]
Saint-Petersburg, Russia
On 25 October, at about 11:40, a man, armed with two knives being in a state of psychosis, attacked people in a supermarket "O’Key". He injured five people before being detained and hospitalized. Before the attack, he shouted "I hate people!".[215][216]
Kagadi, Uganda
On 30 October, an unknown cult stabbed a bunch of people leaving 8 dead and 8 more injured. 2 of the attackers were shot dead by the Ugandan police.[217]
Seattle, Washington
A series of stabbings in the span of two days left ten people injured on 7 and 8 November.[218]
- The first incident occurred on 7 November across the Chinatown-International District, when a 52-year-old woman was found with multiple stab wounds early morning.
- Later that same day, a 32-year-old man was found with multiple stab wounds during afternoon. At around 8 p.m., a 37-year-old man was stabbed multiple times in the back. A 60-year-old man was then stabbed at 8:39 p.m.
- On 8 November, a 53-year-old man was stabbed in the neck at around 1 a.m.
- At around 2 p.m., five people were found stabbed in four different locations. Four men were in critical condition, while a fifth male was treated at the scene. The suspect, identified as a 34-year-old man from Las Vegas, Nevada, was later arrested.
Yixing, China
New York City, New York
On 18 November, a 51-year-old man stabbed three people within hours of each other in Manhattan at random.[221][222][223]
- The first incident occurred around 8:30 a.m. in Chelsea, when 36-year-old Angel Lata Landi, a construction worker, was stabbed in the abdomen. Landi was later taken to Bellevue Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
- At 10:25 a.m., a 67-year-old man was stabbed in Kips Bayneighborhood as he fished along the East River near FDR drive. He was also taken to Bellevue Hospital where he was where he was pronounced dead.
- The last stabbing occurred around 10:55 a.m, when 36-year-old Augustin Wilma was stabbed multiple times in the chest and left arm in the Murray Hill neighborhood near the United Nations Headquarters. Wilma was taken to the New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, where she later succumbed to her injuries later in the day.
After the stabbing of Wilma, the suspect was arrested near East 46th Street and 1st Avenue. The man was identified as Roman Rivera, a homeless man.
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Zagreb, Croatia
Verucchio, Italy
On 31 December, a 23-year old man of Egyptian origin stabbed and injured five people in new year celebrations before getting shot dead by a soldier.[224]
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Lucknow, India
On 1 January, a 24-year old man was arrested after he stabbed and killed his mother and four sisters in an honour killing.[225]
Puente Alto, Chile
On 10 January, a 26-year-old man (who had previously been arrested for home abuse and received a restraining order against entering the household of his would-be victims) stabbed his own mother and his 6-year-old nephew to death,[226] along with attacking another member of the household, a 39-year-old woman who managed to escape and call police. The man then fled on foot, injuring two more people, including a policewoman. As he stabbed her in the neck, responding officers shot him dead.[227][228]
Denver, Colorado
On 11 and 12 January, four people were stabbed on the vicinity of the 16th Street Mall. A 24-year-old was arrested in connection of the stabbings.[229]
Mahaicony, Guyana
On 15 January, a drug addict went on a rampage in Mahaicony, Guyana, killing two people and injuring another. The perpetrator was shot and killed by police.[230]
Spišská Stará Ves, Slovakia
Miami, Florida
On 16 January, two homeless people were killed and two others were injured in an attack. The 30-year-old suspect was arrested.[231]
Tel-Aviv, Israel
On 21 January, four people were injured in a terrorist attack. The perpetrator, a Moroccan-US national, was killed by an armed civilian.[232]
Nagano, Japan
On 22 January, one person was killed while two others were injured in a stabbing attack near Nagano Station.[233] A suspect was arrested on 26 January.[234]
Aschaffenburg, Germany
On 22 January, two people were killed and three others injured when the suspect, a 28-year-old man from Afghanistan with a history of violent behavior and under psychiatric treatment, deliberately attacked a kindergarten group with a kitchen knife. A two-year-old boy of Moroccan origin and a 41-year-old German man were killed, while two adults and a two-year-old Syrian girl were injured.[235][236][237]
Dublin, Ireland
On 9 February, a man stabbed and injured three people before being arrested.[238]
Villach, Austria
On 15 February 2025, a 23-year-old Syrian murdered a 14-year-old boy and injured five other individuals.
Mulhouse, France
On 22 February 2025, one person was killed and seven others were injured in a suspected terrorist attack at a market [239] A 37-year-old Algerian man was arrested at the scene and the prosecutor has opened a terrorist inquiry because the suspect reportedly shouted "Allahu Akbar".[240]
Haifa, Israel
On 3 March, a seventy-year-old man was killed and three other people were injured in a possible terrorist attack at a bus stop. The perpetrator was killed.[241]
Atwater, California
On 19 March, four people were injured in an attack with a sickle. A 38-year-old stabbed three people at a bus station before stabbing and carjacking a person. He was later arrested after crashing during a police chase.[242]
Amsterdam, Netherlands
On 27 March 2025, 30-year old Ukrainian citizen from Donetsk attacks 67-year-old woman and a 69-year-old man with American nationality, a 26-year-old man with Polish nationality, a 73-year-old Belgian woman and a 19-year-old Dutch woman in the Sint Nicolaasstraat area in the vicinity of Dam Square in central Amsterdam
Trondheim, Norway
On March 29, four people were injured in a stabbing attack in the Norwegian city. The perpetrator was arrested and was also reported to be among the injured.[243]
Duhok, Iraq
On April 1, three Assyrian's were attacked with an axe at an Akitu celebration in Duhok, Kurdistan Region, Iraq. The perpetrator who was a supporter of ISIS was arrested.[244]
Washington, D.C, United States
On April 3, a man stabbed himself multiple times before stabbing and injuring six bystanders in a stabbing rampage near Gallaudet University in Trinidad, Washington, D.C.. A suspect that was under the influence of drugs was arrested.[245]
New York City, New York
On April 6, four children were stabbed and injured with a meat cleaver inside of a house in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York, United States. The perpetrator was shot and critically injured by responding officers.[246]
Perry, Georgia
On April 6, a person stabbed three adults and a child to death at home. A suspect who authorities believed knew the family was arrested.[247]
Brasside, England
On April 12, Three prison officers were injured after being stabbed at HM Prison Frankland. [248]
Los Angeles, California
Five people, three critically, were stabbed in the Resida neighborhood of Northwest Los Angeles on April 12.[249]
Belize City, Belize
Kolkata, India
On April 17, a group of knife wielding people stabbed and injured three people near Park Circus.[250]
Antipolo, Philippines
On April 22, a man entered a bakery and fatally stabbed seven employees while they were sleeping. A suspect was arrested but the motive is unknown.[251]
Nantes, France
On April 24, one person was killed and three others were critically injured in a stabbing attack with two knives at a private school. A 15-year-old student was detained.[252]
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