Major incident in Nottingham

[Childcare47]

Anyone local know what’s going on?

Looks like a huge response.

You know this how? It would appear that the attacks were random, not in any way targeted and at this stage (I live in Nottingham) we know nothing of any certainty other than 3 people are dead with the attendant horror that this will bring to their loved ones and another 3 people are in hospital. I really can't understand why people who know nothing other than the headline facts which is all any of us know, make these speculative and very unhelpful comments.

Thank you for your sensible words, @Puzzledandpissedoff

I agree that it is about the victims, but I live very close to the area where one of the killings took place and about 5 minutes away from where a van is being searched in a cordoned off street. I feel very unsettled by this, it is not a good area, lots of crime and can feel quite unsafe so it is not unatural for those of us close to the scene(s) to feel uneasy about what has happened.

Yes but the 'It could've been me' or 'I'm glad my boyfriend's nan's sister's friend didn't make it there today' or 'I'll be holding my kids a bit closer tonight' comments aren't exactly consoling, are they? They just make the posters feel better.

I can imagine if any of the victims' family members read these comments, they might say 'Good for you. Glad it wasn't you or anyone you know'.

And I'm regularly dismayed by the patronising, ageist and misogynistic crap that is posted on here. Plus my favourite of all posters that are holier than thou, above speculation but are all over theads like these with their judges pants fully pulled up.

Looks like an Islamic terror attack to me

why are people so keen to ascribe a motive?

It's just another example of murderous toxic male violence.

There but by the Grace of God go I is a saying as old as time. We forget we are still just animals, with an inbuilt desire to stay alive.

This

Apparently, there is not one journalist or producer in the London media who can pronounce the word ‘Ilkeston’ correctly and tell their colleagues how to pronounce it.
Of course, it’s ‘Illson’ to proper locals, mi duck.

It's bizarre and I'm sure psychologists are already studying it. I know in other countries it's called "mitomania" = the need to be at the centre of attention. It's like the fastest finger posters when someone dies and the people begging for updates on traumatic threads.

Statement from police says it looks as if the 31yo man stabbed a man in his 50s and stole his van, which he then drove at the three people who were injured. The two students killed were 19. What a tragedy.

No word on motive as yet.

Poor families sending their children to university for them to be killed. How many more children need to be killed this way before something is done. It’s not right.

It's bizarre and I'm sure psychologists are already studying it. I know in other countries it's called "mitomania" = the need to be at the centre of attention.

I prefer the term ‘grief vulture’.

It's victim blaming for a start, 3 people have died and 3 others have been injured and here you are making allegations about drugs and organised crime?

Which it doesn't sound anything like

People are human. Having lost a family member in a horrific and high profile manner can't say we were trawling messageboards to see what random people had to say, but also didn't think badly of people expressing their shock and being thankful it wasn't their loved one. People are human at the end of the day, something like this can hit home to people and I don't get why some are so offended by people typing this out on the Internet.

@Fallenties

I don't know, you seem pretty outraged yourself and offended by some people being offended. As you say, people are human which means they can feel how they want right?

I very much doubt it, it has all the hallmarks of a lone person possibly mentally unwell or high

@DisquietintheRanks bloody hell chill out. If I said what I would like to I’d get my post deleted so I went with what’s on my heart. Are you ok? Going off the deep end there.

Uni students aren't children, what do you mean in this way? When was the last time students were killed in any similar way

Horrific although the whole situation is it's a rare occurance

My adult dd is still my child. And London Bridge and the Manchester bombings. Young people killed by maniacs. How many more times are we going to see this

@VisionsOfSplendour they are someone's precious children. Their whole lives ahead of them just awful.