Police arrest three people after 20-minute bloodbath leaves two stabbed and one shot in Liverpool

Three people have been arrested after police in Liverpool were called to two stabbings and a shooting in the space of 20 minutes.

One teenager is in a critical condition after the series of incidents in Toxteth last night, Merseyside Police said.

Officers were called at 9.54pm after a 18-year-old man received multiple stab wounds to his head and chest on Carter Street.

He was taken to hospital by ambulance where he is in a critical but stable condition.

A 17-year-old boy and 20-year-old man from Toxteth were arrested in connection with the stabbing, a police spokesman said. 

Police also received a report a 20-year-old man had been shot on Gwent Street. He arrived at hospital with a gunshot wound to his hip but was discharged.

Twenty minutes later officers were called by paramedics to Hatherley Close where a 17-year-old boy was being treated for a stab wound to the buttocks.

The victim, who has been released from hospital, is not co-operating with police.

A 29-year-old woman had been arrested on suspicion of affray following the incident. Det Insp Jenni Beck said: ‘We are in the early stages of investigating these incidents and are keeping an open mind, although given the times and locations of the incidents we can’t rule out that they may be linked. 

‘Three young men have been assaulted in a 20-minute period within a short distance of each other, one of those young men is in a critical condition.

‘Please if you have information come forward so we can identify those responsible and put them before the courts.’