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The motive was not clear, but police said detectives were not treating the attack as terror-related.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nine children were wounded \u2014 six of them in critical condition \u2014 in the latest headline-grabbing attack amid\u00a0a recent rise in knife crime\u00a0that has stoked anxieties and led to calls for the government to do more to clamp down on bladed weapons.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two wounded adults who tried to shield the pupils were in critical condition, police said.\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe the adults who were injured were bravely trying to protect the children who were being attacked,\u201d Merseyside Police Chief Constable Serena Kennedy said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Taylor Swift-themed workshop was held on the first week of school vacation for children aged about 6 to 11. The two-hour session was led by two women \u2014 a yoga instructor and a dance instructor \u2014 according to an online listing.\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses described hearing blood-curdling screams and seeing children covered in blood emerging from the business that hosts everything from pregnancy workshops and meditation sessions to women&#8217;s bootcamps.\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were in the road, running from the nursery,\u201d said Bare Varathan, who owns a shop nearby. \u201cThey had been stabbed, here, here, here, everywhere,\u201d indicating the neck, back and chest.\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Keir Starmer\u00a0called the attack \u201chorrendous and deeply shocking.\u201d King Charles III sent his \u201ccondolences, prayers and deepest sympathies\u201d for those affected by the \u201cutterly horrific incident.\u201d\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>Police were called shortly before noon to a street where several small businesses are located behind rows of brick houses in the city of about 100,000.\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>The first officers who arrived were shocked to find so many casualties from the \u201cferocious attack,\u201d most of them children with serious injuries, Kennedy said.\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>Colin Parry, an auto body shop owner, said most of the stabbing victims appeared to be young girls.\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe mothers are coming here now and screaming,&#8221; Parry said. \u201cIt is like a scene from a horror movie. &#8230; It\u2019s like something from America, not like sunny Southport.\u201d\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, who has not been identified, lived in a village about 5 miles (8 kilometers) from the site of the attack, police said. 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