Terror at Taylor Swift dance party: two children killed, 9 injured in mass stabbing..

Two children have died and nine others are injured – six critically – after a horror attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance workshop on Monday.

Armed police and paramedics swooped on the town of Southport, Merseyside, just before midday after a knifeman walked into the dance school and launched a ‘ferocious attack’ that left mothers arriving to pick up their kids screaming in horror.

As well as the two fatalities, 11 others, including nine more children, were stabbed at the sold-out dance, yoga and bracelet making workshop, which was just minutes from finishing.

Six of these are fighting for their lives in hospital, as are two adults, who police said ‘bravely tried to protect them’ from the attack at the Hart Space Studios on Hart Street.

A 17-year-old boy, from the nearby village of Banks in Lancashire, remains in custody after being arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder.

As the nation reeled from the senseless violence, the attack was branded ‘utterly horrific’ by King Charles and ‘horrendous and deeply shocking’ by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.

The shocking nature of the frenzy – likened to a scene out of a ‘horror movie’ – was laid bare in a press conference update this evening.

Merseyside Police Chief Constable Serena Kennedy said: ‘My officers were called to reports of a stabbing at 11.47 this morning at an address in Southport.

‘When they arrived, they were shocked to find that multiple people, many of whom were children, had been subjected to a ferocious attack and had suffered serious injuries.

‘It is understood that the children were attending a Taylor Swift event at a dance hall when the offender, armed with a knife, walked into the premises and started to attack the children inside.

‘We believe that the adults who were injured were bravely trying to protect the children who were being attacked.