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		</div><p>A massive manhunt is under way for a lone knifeman who went on a 90-minute rampage in Birmingham city centre overnight, killing a man and injuring seven other people.<br />
West Midlands Police declared a major incident after being called to reports of a stabbing just after midnight on Sunday, before more calls came in of further attacks.</p>
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<p>Detectives are now racing to catch a male suspect who managed to evade capture last night, with “significant resources” now deployed, said senior police officers.<br />
Police have since released CCTV footage of a man they want to speak to in relation to the stabbings.</p>
<p>Chief Superintendent Steve Graham, of West Midlands Police, said the incidents appeared to be “random”, with “no suggestion” the night’s events were linked to terrorism.</p>
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<li>Manhunt for knifeman after fatal stabbing spree in Birmingham.He said: “A man has tragically died.<br />
“Another man and a woman have suffered serious injuries and five others have also been injured, although their injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.”<br />
In the footage released by police, a man is shown wearing a dark-coloured peaked hat and zip-up hoodie with white drawstrings.Also wearing dark-coloured trousers and shoes, he can be seen standing and walking on a street corner.<br />
The force’s police and crime commissioner David Jamieson labelled the assaults “disturbing”, with the violence enfolding as revellers had been enjoying the night.<br />
Speaking at a press conference at the force’s headquarters, itself only yards from where the initial attacks unfolded, Mr Graham said there was also nothing suggesting it was a hate crime or connected to city gang violence.<br />
He also moved to end speculation the violence was linked to people “squabbling over tables”.</p>
<p>On Twitter, Prime Minister Boris Johnson thanked the emergency services.<br />
He tweeted: “All my thoughts are with those affected by the terrible incident in Birmingham last night.”<br />
Home Secretary Priti Patel also said “all her thoughts” were with people affected by the “shocking incident” in the city.<br />
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<p>Savvas Sfrantzis, who owns Mykonos bar and grill in Hurst Street, said he witnessed a woman being repeatedly stabbed, just across the street, after he was alerted by her screams.<br />
He said: “I looked at him, facing him, and I can see he had a blade, small, not very big, and he was stabbing her in the neck.”<br />
He described how the attacker was “so cold”, walking calmly away and “smirking”, while other bar staff bravely tried to follow him.</p>
<p>David Nash, a bar manager at The Village Inn, The Nightingale Inn and The Loft Lounge, said he came within 10 metres of a hooded suspect, spotted running from the scene of the stabbings, in Hurst Street.</p>
<p>He said: “I was on the street around 2.20am and we heard somebody shout down the street ‘stop him, he’s just stabbed somebody’.<br />
“Initially it was a guy with a black hoodie on with the hood pulled up over his head, who was walking relatively casually.<br />
“As soon as somebody shouted ‘stop him’ that’s when he ran off into the area of Sherlock Street.”<br />
Mr Nash said the person was “calm” and walking unhurriedly, until someone shouted the alarm.</li>
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