Man arrested after six stabbed to death on Britain’s Jersey island

A man allegedly stabbed to death six people including three infants on the British Channel Island of Jersey.

Police arrested the 30-year-old suspect after he underwent surgery for injuries sustained in the attack, which unfolded on Sunday afternoon in a residential complex, the BBC reported

Two women and a man were also killed. A local resident told The Guardian newspaper that he believed all the victims were from the same family.

Witness Andre Thorpe said four or five police vehicles attended the scene of the crime, in a quiet residential neighborhood.

"They were trying to access a private house in the crescent… I saw police come running out with a child. It was a small child, I just saw the legs," he said.

"They went off in an ambulance. When the paramedic came back, her shirt was covered in blood."

The killings have shocked residents of Jersey, a normally peaceful community of about 100,000 people which last experienced a murder in 2004.

Investigation chief Stewart Gull said the killer used "a knife or knives" and described the incident as "pretty traumatic" for emergency responders.

"Jersey is an incredibly safe island, probably one of the safest places in the western world, and incidents of this nature are an extremely rare occurrence," he said.