A BRAVE barber confronted a woman on a blade rampage in Covent Garden after one of the bloodied stab victims burst into his shop.

The woman stabbed four men outside a theatre in central London yesterday with a pair of scissors before she was tackled to the ground by Taser-wielding police officers.

Dramatic pictures showed the woman being arrested by cops still holding onto her vape

Cops arrested the 47-year-old woman at the scene

The victims were rushed to a major trauma centre following the attack by a woman who witnesses said appeared “possessed.”

The Met Police called it an “isolated, mental health-related incident”.

One barber told The Sun how one of the victims burst into his shop with a bloodied blue shirt, shouting: “I’ve been stabbed.”

He said: “I was cutting someone’s hair when a man rushed in asking for help. He was bloodied and was holding his back.

A hero barber has told how he confronted the woman and held her back

Police officers arrested a woman at the scene

“I immediately ran to give him some tissue and tried to calm him down. He said a woman had jumped at him without saying anything and just started attacking him with scissors near the theatre.

“While we were treating him he shouted that the same woman was coming back down the street.”

The 36-year-old, who works at the 2 Chairs Grooming Room, then said he helped confront the woman, and stopped her from attacking more people.

He said: “We all came rushing out of our shops to help. I ran towards her down the street and she stopped and looked at me holding the scissors.

“She had a weird look in her eyes. It was like she was possessed almost. But I still ran towards her and held her back. I was holding the woman back to stop her from attacking more people.”

After 15 minutes, the officers stopped her rampage by knocking the scissors from her hands after she took a puff from her vape.

Eyewitness Brontë Giles 26 told The Sun: “She was in a stand off with Tasers and the crowd told her to put it down.

“She went to hit her vape and they swatted the [blade] out of her hand.”

She is bundled into a police van

Four people have been stabbed in a horror broad daylight rampage at Covent Garden

Locals said the woman was staying at a nearby homeless hostel, and had been seen begging for money just before the terrifying lunchtime attack.

A waiter at a local chip shop told The Sun: “It was a homeless woman who randomly lunged at a group of people.

“It was a random attack with a pair of scissors. There was a lot of confusion, people were still walking past when it happened.”

He said the suspect “was very skinny and begging for money just before it happened”, and police were on the scene within seconds.

The victim who rushed into his shop was later seen with a gash on his back before being taken to hospital.

CCTV footage shows the alleged attacker heading away from the scene after the broad daylight stabbing.

The video, seen by the Daily Mail, shows the woman, in brown trousers and a white top, walking past the Rock & Sole Plaice restaurant on Endell Street at 12.27pm, minutes before emergency services arrived.

Dramatic footage taken at the scene showed cops armed with Tasers in a tense stand-off with a woman.

She was taken to custody while officers cordoned off a huge stretch on Endell Street

The victims have been rushed to hospital ‘as a priority’

Officers were seen talking with her on the junction between Short’s Gardens and Neal Street as she appears to hold an unknown item in her hand.

They then tackle her to the ground and appear to restrain her as terrified bystanders kept their distance.

Pictures showed an Air Ambulance helicopter landing in a packed Trafalgar Square as shocked tourists watched on.

After being treated at the scene, the victims – aged 34, 39, 42 and 52 – were then rushed to hospital “as a priority”.

Two of the victims remained in hospital with injuries not believed to be life-threatening or life-changing. The other two men were discharged after treatment.

A 47-year-old woman has since been arrested on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon and assault.

She was taken to custody while officers cordoned off a huge stretch on Endell Street, with an array of police cars parked along the road.

It is understood that a pair of scissors were recovered at the scene.

The London Ambulance Service confirmed crews were scrambled shortly after midday

A 47-year-old woman has since been arrested on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon and assault

Chief Superintendent Jason Stewart said in a statement: “Officers responded within minutes of this incident after receiving a number of reports.

“While still at an early stage of the investigation, we would like to reassure the community that we currently believe this to be an isolated, mental-health related incident.

“A visible police presence will remain in the area while evidence is gathered at the scene and we thank the public for their understanding.”

The force previously said: “At around 12:27hrs on Wednesday, police were called to reports of stabbing on Endell Street, Covent Garden.

“Officers attended alongside the London Ambulance Service and London’s Air Ambulance.

“Four men – aged 34, 39, 42, and 52 – were found with stab wounds and assessed at the scene by paramedics.

“They have since been taken to hospital and we await an update on their injuries.

“A 47-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon and assault.

“She was taken to custody where she remains.”

A horrified witness at the Craft Beer Co claimed a woman approached members of the public outside a nearby theatre.

They told LBC she then she stabbed two men in the back, ran down Endell Street, then stabbed more people.

An LAS spokesperson added: “We were called at 12:29pm today (5 August) to reports of a stabbing on Endell Street, WC2H.

“We sent an ambulance crew, paramedic in a fast response car and an incident response officer. We also dispatched London’s Air Ambulance.

“We treated four patients at the scene and took them all to a major trauma centre as a priority by road”.

Source: https://www.the-sun.com/news/16797241/three-stabbed-london-tourist-hotspot/