Kaleigh Watterson,<\/span>Newton-le-Willows,<\/span><\/p>\n Laura O’Neill<\/span>and<\/span><\/p>\n Lynette Horsburgh,<\/span>North West<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n A man has been arrested after five people were assaulted with a weapon in a hospital, police have said.<\/p>\n The casualties, none of whom are thought to have suffered life-threatening injuries, were treated by paramedics at Newton Community Hospital in Newton-le-Willows, St Helens, after the attack with what may have been a crowbar shortly after 12:00 GMT.<\/p>\n Merseyside Police added the suspect was believed to have attended the hospital to request an appointment but became “increasingly agitated” when this was declined and he was asked to leave.<\/p>\n A 20-year-old man, who police said was originally from Afghanistan, was held on suspicion of five counts of Section 18 wounding, affray and criminal damage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The suspect was reported to have damaged a counter before assaulting people inside the hospital, police said.<\/p>\n Sugedaran Shanmugaraja, who was working in the Best One shop across the road from the hospital, said an injured woman fled the scene before coming into his store.<\/p>\n He said the woman, whose head was bleeding, asked him to call the police.<\/p>\n “I gave her my phone to call. I could see blood and she said somebody was attacking everybody,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Mr Shanmugaraja said 10 or 15 police cars soon arrived at the scene and nurses came into the shop to treat the injured woman.<\/p>\n Hannah West, who lives across the road from the hospital, told the BBC she saw members of staff and injured people being evacuated.<\/p>\n She also said she saw a man being arrested.<\/p>\n “I’m so shocked something like this has happened in Newton,” she said.<\/p>\n “I looked out my window when I heard constant sirens and saw some victims coming out and [a man] getting put in the riot van.<\/p>\n “Hospital staff were being evacuated – they looked really stressed, but you could tell they were trying to help people.<\/p>\n “One woman was wrapped up and in a wheelchair being wheeled to an ambulance. <\/p>\n “The other woman came out before the man was arrested and was tended to in the Best One car park.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Seve Gomez-Aspron, who represents Newton-le-Willows ward on St Helens Council, said his father, who lives close to the hospital, heard that someone was attacking staff and damaging the reception area.<\/p>\n He said he rushed to the hospital and got there within a few minutes.<\/p>\n “From receiving the call to arriving there had been a massive emergency response to deal with the incident.<\/p>\n “I can only thank Merseyside Police and North West Ambulance Service for such a swift and efficient response, running into a scenario where danger is unknown.<\/p>\n “It’s a shock, but as always, we need to await the full facts without speculation.”<\/p>\n Supt Sarah Rotherham said: “We were called to reports of a man behaving aggressively at the hospital who had assaulted a number of people. <\/p>\n “Officers attended immediately and the male was swiftly located and arrested. Paramedics attended at the hospital and carried out first aid to those who had been injured.”<\/p>\n Anyone who witnessed the incident is asked to contact Merseyside Police or call Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n #Man #held #people #attacked #NewtonLeWillows #hospital<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kaleigh Watterson,Newton-le-Wi… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/static.files.bbci.co.uk\/bbcdotcom\/web\/20251210-151139-37baf2dfdd-web-2.36.1-1\/grey-placeholder.png\")
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Hannah West<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n‘So shocked’<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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