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Two of the three people killed on Tuesday named locally as students Grace Kumar and Barnaby Webber
Two 19-year-old students and a man in his 50s were stabbed to death, and a further three people injured when a stolen van was driven into them, in an early morning rampage across Nottingham yesterday
A 31-year-old man has ben arrested on suspicion of murder. Counter-terror police were helping officers with their investigation but Nottinghamshire police insisted they were keeping an “open mind” about the motive
The two students at Nottingham University were found unresponsive on Ilkeston Road, north-west of the city’s centre, at 4am on Tuesday.
Detectives believe the suspect then stole a white van, whose driver was later found stabbed to death on Magdala Road, two miles from where the teenagers were found
The van was then driven into people standing at a bus stop near Nottingham’s Theatre Royal at approximately 5.30am, leaving one man in critical condition and two others suffering minor injuries, police said
Officers said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the attacks and, during the hours afterwards, armed police staged a series of raids across the east Midlands city
One of the students was named locally as Barnaby Webber. The second student was named in media reports as Grace Kumar, a hockey player with England U18s
A 31-year-old man remains in police custody – arrested on suspicion of murder – after two 19-year-old students and a man in his 50s were stabbed to death, and a further three people injured when a stolen van was driven into them.
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