Breaking: At least 1 man dead after stabbing rampage in Dundalk

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GARDAI are investigating a string of stabbing attacks this morning that has left one man dead and two others injured.

The incidents took place in Dundalk, Co Louth. One man has died after he was attacked and stabbed on Avenue Road. He is understood to be of Asian descent. His age is as yet unknown. The man was pronounced dead at the scene.

It is understood that two other men - both understood to be Irish - were subsequently injured in separate attacks.

Gardaí who were called to the scene confronted and disarmed the attacker.

He has been arrested on suspicion of murder and is being detained at Dundalk Garda Station. He can be questioned for up to 24 hours. It is understood that the attacker is originally from Syria.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/one-man-killed-two-others-injured-in-series-of-stabbings-in-louth-36455136.html


Gardai are investigating whether this attack was planned, or was random in nature.

bloodless_coup

https://www.rte.ie/news/2018/0103/930792-dundalk-death/

1 dead, 2 injured, 3 crime scenes, Middle Eastern suspect...

2smiggy

I thought they are all well qualified doctors etc coming over from Syria ?

Nesta99

It would be best not to simply speculate on motives just yet. Nationality is incidental until more is known.

moonlighting_1

it was only a matter of time before this happened.

Red_Wake

Pretty sure the attacker was just after leaving the cinema before he started his rampage.

bear1

2smiggy wrote: »

I thought they are all well qualified doctors etc coming over from Syria ?

Before this descends into a muslim bashing thread, I see no relevance to your sarcastic post regarding the immigrants that have/are coming over.
It is understood he is from Syria but not confirmed.
And even if it is confirmed he is from Syria then what difference does it make?
Is it somewhat worse that a Syrian would murder someone than if it were a French/British/Irish national?
Murder is murder regardless of your nationality.

Nesta99

Red_Wake wrote: »

Pretty sure the attacker was just after leaving the cinema before he started his rampage.

At 9am?

Cina

2smiggy wrote: »

I thought they are all well qualified doctors etc coming over from Syria ?

Someone is murdered and this is your response? Really?

wakka12

I think by now after so many of these type of events turned out to be nothing but coincidence we should know not to speculate or imply anything until further information comes out.

The Backwards Man

bear1 wrote: »

Before this descends into a muslim bashing thread, I see no relevance to your sarcastic post regarding the immigrants that have/are coming over.
It is understood he is from Syria but not confirmed.
And even if it is confirmed he is from Syria then what difference does it make?
Is it somewhat worse that a Syrian would murder someone than if it were a French/British/Irish national?
Murder is murder regardless of your nationality.

Middle Eastern cowardly murderous bastards are infinitely worse than white European ones.

Halloween Jack

2smiggy wrote: »

I thought they are all well qualified doctors etc coming over from Syria ?

Anybody using a tragic event, where people have lost their lives, to score cheap political points needs to take a long hard look at themselves...

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Well every cloud has a silver lining. Innocent people dead and injured but at least we can make gloaty little posts!

Although I'd imagine some people are still actually rubbing one out in vindictive glee.

jacksie66

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The Backwards Man

Nesta99 wrote: »

At 9am?

They're just struggling to hide their considerable glee at the needless loss of life, pay no notice.

Colonel Claptrap

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Middle Eastern cowardly murderous bastards are infinitely worse than white European ones.

Well that didn't take long

suicide_circus

Fernando Flat Silkworm wrote: »

Well every cloud has a silver lining. Innocent people dead and injured but at least we can make gloaty little posts!

Although I'd imagine some people are still actually rubbing one out in vindictive glee.

More people making this kind of post than the kind of post you're condemning

GLaDOS

Can we wait until we have concrete facts at least before losing the run of ourselves?

Jobs OXO

Why take the risk and let them in? They are obviously not compatible with social norms in the west and would be more at ease among their own kind.

BillyBobBS

R.I.P. to the victim.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

suicide_circus wrote: »

More people making this kind of post than the kind of post you're condemning

And I wouldn't have had any cause to make the post if the OP, first response and several other posts weren't so cunty. Obviously people are going to respond to such low nastiness, and the fact they outnumber the low nasties is heartening at least.

Anyone got any actual updates or is this gone meta already?

wakka12

Jobs OXO wrote: »

A lot of these folk seem deranged. Why take the risk and let them in? They are obviously not compatible with social norms in the west and would be more at ease among their own kind.

Irish people murder people too
How many syrians have we had murder anybody in ireland? This is the first Ive ever heard of

twinytwo

Jobs OXO wrote: »

A lot of these folk seem deranged. Why take the risk and let them in? They are obviously not compatible with social norms in the west and would be more at ease among their own kind.

Because Germany has said so ..thus must obey. To logically question automatically makes you racist/islamophobic etc etc

Jobs OXO

wakka12 wrote: »

Irish people murder people too
How many syrians have we had murder anybody in ireland? This is the first Ive ever heard of

One is too many

wakka12

wakka12 wrote: »

Irish people murder people too
How many syrians have we had murder anybody in ireland? This is the first Ive ever heard of

And how many Syrians do we have?

dav3

Jobs OXO wrote: »

A lot of these folk seem deranged. Why take the risk and let them in? They are obviously not compatible with social norms in the west and would be more at ease among their own kind.

Quite similar to re-regs and people with multiple accounts trying to push an agenda on this forum, don't you think?

Nesta99

The Backwards Man wrote: »

They're just struggling to hide their considerable glee at the needless loss of life, pay no notice.

I still dont really get the eh meaning, relevence, attempted sarcasm, humour, whatever. I obviously dont pass that much attention to AH postings so!

Where it has happened would have been very busy at 9am, heavy and slow moving traffic. Would almost be at a stand still if schools were open. Plenty of people will have witnessed a horrible incident!!

major bill

Too early to speculate but RIP to the victim, it scares the ****e out of me that life can be taking so cheaply.

The Backwards Man

Nesta99 wrote: »

I still dont really get the eh meaning, relevence, attempted sarcasm, humour, whatever. I obviously dont pass that much attention to AH postings so!

Where it has happened would have been very busy at 9am, heavy and slow moving traffic. Would almost be at a stand still if schools were open. Plenty of people will have witnessed a horrible incident!!

It's a reference to the case of an Irish citizen who may or may not have been wrongly imprisoned in an Egyptian prison. Edgy stuff.

Fcuk all to do with this incident, but hey, they're brown and possibly Muslim.

RobertKK

Most Syrian people are fine people.

It doesn’t change the fact that even Interpol said that the migrant crisis was used by terrorists to gain access to Europe, and thousands of terrorists were believed to have arrived in that period of the crisis.

It does appear to be a terrorist attack in Dundalk. Some people will downplay it as to normalise it. Others will overplay it for others reasons.
It doesn’t change the fact 1 person is dead and more injured in an attack where it was said the man responsible who is from the Middle East was intent on stabbing as many people as possible.

Well done to the Gardai. Who did a professional and efficient job with disarming and arresting the culprit.

RobertKK

RobertKK wrote: »

Most Syrian people are fine people.

It doesn’t change the fact that even Interpol said that the migrant crisis was used by terrorists to gain access to Europe, and thousands of terrorists were believed to have arrived in that period of the crisis.

It does appear to be a terrorist attack in Dundalk. Some people will downplay it as to normalise it. Others will overplay it for others reasons.
It doesn’t change the fact 1 person is dead and more injured in an attack where it was said the man responsible who is from the Middle East was intent on stabbing as many people as possible.

Well done to the Gardai. Who did a professional and efficient job with disarming and arresting the culprit.

If this had happened in London it would be getting more reactions on here.
Also if the 3 places being mentioned are where the stabbings happened then the Gardai were not very efficient in tracking him down.

Hammeron Frazier

Regardless of the attackers probable skin colour/ethnicity, regardless of his probable religion, and also since the details are yet to emerge, lets not jump to conclusions shall we?

However at first glance this does look like what has been happening all over Europe for the past couple of years, does it not?

Expect to hear more of the "sure Irish people stab other people too" line of thinking.

tomwaterford

Jobs OXO wrote: »

A lot of these folk seem deranged. Why take the risk and let them in? They are obviously not compatible with social norms in the west and would be more at ease among their own kind.

Maybe they shouldve just sent this lad to limerick?

RobertKK

[Deleted User] wrote: »

If this had happened in London it would be getting more reactions on here.
Also if the 3 places being mentioned are where the stabbings happened then the Gardai were not very efficient in tracking him down.

Well that is true, we have to wait and see what the response time is.
TV3 say the Gardai are investigating if it is terror related.

RobertKK

The dead man who was stabbed is believed to be a Japanese national.

triple nipple

Red_Wake wrote:

Pretty sure the attacker was just after leaving the cinema before he started his rampage.

Maybe he saw the new Star Wars

whiskeyman

moonlighting_1 wrote: »

it was only a matter of time before this happened.

Before what happened?
Unfortunately we're very used to knife crime in Ireland.
If you are referring to random stabbings, we've had them here before too...
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/dublin-man-jailed-for-six-years-for-random-stab-attacks-30430304.html

RobertKK

whiskeyman wrote: »

Before what happened?
Unfortunately we're very used to knife crime in Ireland.
If you are referring to random stabbings, we've had them here before too...
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/dublin-man-jailed-for-six-years-for-random-stab-attacks-30430304.html

The motivation for the stabbings is what deems it terrorism or not.

Pac1Man

For those upset about so-called agendas being pushed forward, hearing the usual cries for not speculating and jumping to conclusions is equally infuriating.

Imagine seeing strong evidence of potential problem and those around you put their hands over their eyes and fingers in their ears, awaiting for said problem to be confirmed before reacting.

The discussion of one extreme scenario should not be stifled by the alternative extreme viewpoint of another.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

[Deleted User] wrote: »

If this had happened in London it would be getting more reactions on here.
Also if the 3 places being mentioned are where the stabbings happened then the Gardai were not very efficient in tracking him down.

There's not much detail to react to though, and I don't mean that as an attempt to downplay the tragedy or the likelihood of it being a terrorist attack, it's just that the gards are saying nathin.

One Japanese man dead, two other people injured, Syrian man in custody on suspicion of murder.

Briefing at 3pm and they can hold him for 24 hours, hopefully we'll know more then.

dieselbug

RobertKK wrote: »

The dead man who was stabbed is believed to be a Japanese national.

Yes I heard on early buttetins it was an Asian person and my first thought's were of triads or something like that which did happen some years back.

silverharp

dieselbug wrote: »

Yes I heard that on early bulletins and my first tought's were of triads or something like that which did happen some years back.

the Yakuza in Dundalk? sounds like more of a punishment than an assignment...

bloodless_coup

Deleted User wrote: »

Also if the 3 places being mentioned are where the stabbings happened then the Gardai were not very efficient in tracking him down.

What are you talking about, the 3 places could be (and I think are) less than 1 - 2 minutes from each other. How do you expect them to arrive at an incident quicker than that?

dundalkfc10

doylefe wrote: »

What are you talking about, the 3 places could be (and I think are) less than 1 - 2 minutes from each other. How do you expect them to arrive at an incident quicker than that?

He was talking ****e!

The Gardai in Dundalk are afraid to enter some housing estates in town so Im surprised and happy they got this lunatic quick

doylefe

doylefe wrote: »

What are you talking about, the 3 places could be (and I think are) less than 1 - 2 minutes from each other. How do you expect them to arrive at an incident quicker than that?

The three scenes mentioned: https://www.google.ie/maps/dir/avenue+road/Seatown,+Dundalk,+Co.+Louth/@54.0004495,-6.4026321,15z/data=!4m19!4m18!1m10!1m1!1s0x4860cc2e2fd1f3b9:0x4a89321f1aa28a9f!2m2!1d-6.3884445!2d53.9948004!3m4!1m2!1d-6.3785854!2d53.9963248!3s0x4860cc25bdb9c137:0x3700b87720727b4d!1m5!1m1!1s0x4860cea1a49fa2fb:0x7e63acc3299d5835!2m2!1d-6.3960974!2d54.0058016!3e2

Good luck getting from the Avenue Road to Seatown via the bypass in 1-2 minutes.

ohnonotgmail

dieselbug wrote: »

Yes I heard that on early bulletins and my first tought's were of triads or something like that which did happen some years back.

triads are chinese not japanese

Nesta99

doylefe wrote: »

What are you talking about, the 3 places could be (and I think are) less than 1 - 2 minutes from each other. How do you expect them to arrive at an incident quicker than that?

There is about a km of a walk between Seatown and the area of the Avenue Rd/Inner Relief Road where this happened. Even in a car at that time of the morning it could be a 10 minute drive.

dieselbug

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

triads are chinese not japanese

They didn't say Japanese just Asian.

Atoms for Peace

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

triads are chinese not japanese

So possibly some sort of power struggle between the triads and the Yakuza for control of the Dundalk underworld.

6541

If some middle eastern bloke came within 5 meters of me I would politely ask him to stop his approach. If he did not cease at this point he better have a really big knife and know how to use it.

Nesta99

dundalkfc10 wrote: »

He was talking ****e!

The Gardai in Dundalk are afraid to enter some housing estates in town so Im surprised and happy they got this lunatic quick

Talk about hysteria! There is as much in this comment as any other in this thread. If you said 'dont bother' or they take their time on a call out then maybe!