IranPress/America: according to Eyewitness News, three adults and three infants were stabbed in a day care operating out of a house in the Flushing section of Queens Friday morning.
US Police were called to the day care center in Queens around 3:40 a.m., WPIX reported. A 52-year-old woman with apparent self-inflicted knife wounds was taken into custody.
Three infants, all girls, were taken to Cornell and LIJ hospitals. They are all in critical but stable condition. The babies are extremely young, one is 3 days old, another is a month old, and the last is 20 days old.
The victims were found inside the home on 161st Street just after 3:30 a.m.
The three day old baby and month old baby both have injuries to their stomachs. The 20-day-old baby has cuts to her chin, ear and lip.Two adults were also injured. A female co-worker could be heard screaming. As she was being stabbed the father of one of the babies ran in and was stabbed in the legs.
The suspect, a 52-year-old woman, was found unconscious in the basement with self-inflicted slash wounds to her wrist.
She is in police custody at New York-Presbyterian/Queens, where she is also being treated for critical injuries.
All the babies and children in the home were there with their parents. There were nine children in total inside at the time of the stabbings. Other children living in the day care were not injured.
Police recovered a butcher knife and a meat cleaver at the scene.Stay with Eyewitness News and abc7NY for the latest on this breaking news story.
According to the FBI, 1,604 people were killed by “knives and cutting instruments” and 374 were killed by “rifles” in 2016.
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BUSINESS INSIDER reported, Americans are more likely to die from gun violence than many leading causes of death combined, with some 13,000 people in the US killed in firearm assaults each year, which translates to a roughly 1-in-315 lifetime chance of death from gun violence.
That's about 56% more likely than the lifetime risk of dying while riding inside a car, truck, or van. It's also more than 11 times as high as dying from any force of nature, such as a hurricane, tornado, earthquake, flood, or lightning strike.
These measures also suggest Americans are more likely to die from gun violence than the combined risks of drowning, fire and smoke, stabbing, choking on food, airplane crashes, animal attacks, and natural disasters.
In 2015, some 333 mass shootings left 367 people dead and 1,328 injured. The statistics rose in 2016 to 383 mass shootings, 456 deaths, and 1,537 injuries. In 2017, there were 346 mass shootings that led to 437 deaths and 1,802 injuries.
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