USA: Knife attack on a Los Angeles hospital

At least three people are fighting for their lives after were stabbed in hospital in Encino’s neighborhood Los Angeles on Friday night (3/6).

The Los Angeles Police Department responded to a call shortly after 3:45 p.m. at Encino Hospital Medical Center on Ventura Avenue. According to the Los Angeles Fire Department, the three men, all hospital staff, were taken to a local trauma center and are in critical – but stable – condition.

The hospital has been closed as Authorities believe the perpetrator remains inside.

It is unknown at this time whether the suspect and the victims of the stabbing knew each other.

The hospital identified the three injured as a doctor and two staff nurses.

“It simply came to our notice then. We isolated the person. “We have no information that there is anyone else in there with him,” said Los Angeles Police Chief Michael Moore.

Police had cordoned off the suspect “in the emergency area,” Moore said as an FBI team headed to the hospital.

SWAT officers arrived at the hospital around 5:25 p.m.

Nicholas Prantz, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Fire Department, said police had asked fire crews to remain on the scene.

Dignity Health Northridge Hospital Medical Center, the institution that received the three stabbing victimssaid in a statement that all three are in stable condition.

This attack came a few days after gunman kills four before killing at Oklahoma Tulsa hospital.

Michael Lewis stormed the hospital armed with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, determined to kill the doctor who had recently operated on him and anyone else standing in his way, Talsa Police Chief Wendell Franck said hours after the tragedy. at a press conference.

One of the two doctors who was among the four victims of the massacre, Preston Phillips, had operated on Michael Lewis on May 19. Lewis was discharged five days later and then began calling the hospital almost daily to express his displeasure with the pain, asking for additional treatment.

Michael Lewis last visited his doctor on Tuesday. The next day, he called again to request additional treatment and then decided to invade the hospital and spread the death.

Doctors Preston Phillips and Stephanie Huzen, secretary Amanda Green and a patient named William Love were shot dead by the butcher.

Lewis aimed his gun at himself and was fatally wounded shortly before police stormed the floor.

The United States – where Bloodshed from gun attacks is a scourge, but the right to bear arms is enshrined in the Constitution Have so far failed to restrict citizens’ access to weapons.