Stabbing in the Manor of Lugano TI

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  Canton police are trying to determine the course of events in the Manor branch. According to witnesses, there was an argument between two women on the sixth floor. One pulled a knife and apparently injured the other in the neck.

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  Within a short time the police cordoned off the square in the heart of the old town. Details of the bloodbath in the Manor branch are not yet known.

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  On Tuesday afternoon around 2 p.m. there was a knife fight on the top floor of the Manor branch on Piazza Dante in Lugano TI.

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  Shopping horror in the old town of Lugano: customers try to recover from the horror in front of the Manor branch.

The horror is in their pale faces. People run out of the Manor branch in central Lugano. Many cannot believe what just happened on the sixth floor. It’s just before 2 p.m. Suddenly a woman attacks two others near the cash register. First the attacker chokes one of the victims, then pulls out a large knife and stabs the other woman. “I heard screams and turned around. Then I saw a woman lying on the floor in the middle of a pool of blood. It was shocking, ”an eyewitness told“ La Regione ”.

The witness is not the only one who witnessed the drama. While many customers run to the exits in panic, a couple courageously grabs the knife by the hair and holds her until the police arrive. The attacker’s hand is still clutching the murder weapon when the officers arrest the assassin.

The perpetrator may have bought the knife recently in the housewares department on the floor below. According to Ticinonline, the carnage occurred on the top floor of the department store. The police later confirmed that the perpetrator was a 28-year-old Swiss resident in Lugano.

Several emergency services can reach Piazza Dante within a few minutes. The square in the heart of the old town is immediately cordoned off. Ticino media also report witnesses who observed a young woman being carried out of the manor on a stretcher and pushed into the ambulance. Both women were injured, one was badly wounded, but not life-threatening, the police said in a press release. One cannot rule out a terrorist attack, according to the Kapo, and is now working with the federal police, the city police of Lugano and other competent authorities.