Sainsbury's stabbing: Horror as four women knifed in 'unprovoked attack'

A WOMAN is fighting for her life and three others injured after being stabbed in a Sainsbury's supermarket car park.

HORROR: A man pulled out a knife in the Sainsbury's carpark

Shoppers took to social media to describe utter carnage at the scene where a man is alleged to have waved a knife in the carpark in Tagley Road, Hampton as customers ran for their lives.

The man reportedly turned on four women – leaving one for dead.

An air ambulance lifted the victim who was suffering from critical back injuries to a nearby hospital.

SHOPPING HORROR: The car park in Tangley Park road, Hampton

Three others were treated in an ambulance.

A 60-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder, police said.

A member of staff at the nearby Hampton pub described a man who "appeared to be out of it" and targeting women.

FORENSICS: One woman has been left with life-threatening injuries

The woman, who did not want to be named, said: "He only went for the women. The man ran through and started attacking them.

"It didn't seem like they knew him. It was completely unprovoked."

She said that the victims managed to make her way to a nearby police station where she raised the alarm.

4 people have been stabbed in the car park of my local Sainsburys in Hampton & there's an air ambulance & everything :/ scary stuff :(

— A-Mii ☆ (@amyhavok) May 20, 2016

"She is well-known locally and always goes shopping there all the time," she added.

It follows yet another brutal group stabbing on the streets of London earlier this month.

Blood splattered the streets as teenagers as young as 16 pulled knives on each other outside of a south London McDonald's before police were called to the scene. 

We have treated four women for stab injuries following this incident in #hampton https://t.co/qnn2NtnxMC

— London Ambulance (@Ldn_Ambulance) May 20, 2016

Metropolitan Police confirmed a man was being held.

A spokesperson said: "The London Ambulance Service also attended and are providing treatment to the women.

"A fourth woman who had also suffered knife wounds was subsequently located at a nearby property. She has been taken to hospital where her condition at this stage is thought to be life-threatening."

LUNATIC: A man is alleged to have pulled out a knife

A member of staff at Tangley Park Children's Centre, which backs onto the scene of the attack, said: "We kept all the children safe and kept them in the building until we knew it was safe.

"It's just such a shock - our parents and children could have been walking to their cars at that time.

"Our sympathies go out to everyone who was hurt and we are really glad none of our families were involved."