Alice Dasilva Aguiar, nine, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Bebe King, six, died from their injuries.
British police say they have charged a 17-year-old with three counts of murder over a stabbing attack that killed three children in Southport, northwest England.
READ MORE:Tutor Leanne Lucas was injured shielding two girls from the Southport dance class stabbing, her cousin said. Earlier, a cousin of class organiser Leanne Lucas said the yoga teacher had been wounded shielding "two little girls" from the attack.told the BBCHe said Lucas, who was taken to hospital in a critical condition, was recovering but was "not out of the woods" yet.
"She just screamed at me: 'He's killing kids over there. He's killing kids over there,'" Verite told Sky News. Police said a name of the suspect circulating on social media — spread by far-right activists and accounts of murky origin purporting to be news organisations — was incorrect and that he was born in Britain.
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