Girl stabbed in attack calls for mandatory first aid training

A GIRL who thought she was “going to die” after being stabbed in the Southport attack has called for mandatory first aid training in schools.

- ROSIE SHEAD Press Association reporter

In an interview with Sky News marking one year since the attack, when Axel Rudakubana killed three schoolchildren, the girl said it was “disgusting” that young people carried knives.

The girl had attended the Taylor Swift dance class with her younger sister on July 29 last year.

She was stabbed in her arm and her back by Rudakubana, during the attack in which he murdered Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, and attempted to kill eight other children and two adults.

Describing the incident, the girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said: “Some of the girls were sat down in a circle making bracelets with the teachers, and then a couple of them were getting up to get beads and I was stood in between two tables, and he came through the doors and stabbed a little girl in front of me, and then came for me and stabbed my arm.