Knife attack in Suriname kills at least 9 people, police say

A weapon onslaught extracurricular Suriname's superior of Paramaribo killed astatine slightest 9 people, including 5 children, constabulary said Sunday.

Officials said the victims included the attacker's children and neighbors who came to their aid. Local media reported the victims were located astatine aggregate homes.

The onslaught took spot successful Richelieu successful the Commewijne territory astir 25 kilometers (15 miles) eastbound of Paramaribo.

In a connection Sunday, Suriname's Police Corps said the antheral fishy attempted to onslaught constabulary officers who arrived connected the country and helium was injured during his arrest. He is present recovering successful a hospital.

Police said a sixth kid and different big were earnestly injured successful the onslaught and were being treated astatine a infirmary successful Paramaribo.

On her Facebook page, Surinamese President Jennifer Geerlings-Simons reacted to the news, saying the attacker took the lives of his children and his neighbors.

"I privation each the bereaved overmuch strength, resilience, and comfortableness successful this unimaginably hard time," Geerlings-Simons wrote successful Dutch, the nation's authoritative language.

Suriname, a erstwhile Dutch colony, is the smallest autarkic federation successful South America, with a colonisation of astir 600,000 people. It has traditionally had 1 of the lowest execution rates successful the region. But the execution complaint spiked successful 2024 to 30 homicides per 100,000 residents, according to information gathered by the deliberation vessel Insight Crime.