Arsenal’s Pablo Mari stabbed at shopping centre, rushed to hospital

Pablo Mari and four other persons have been hospitalized after they were stabbed at the Milanofiori shopping center in Assago, Milan, on Thursday afternoon.

They were stabbed by a 46-year-old man who has now been arrested.

Of the five victims, the Arsenal defender, who is on loan at Monza this season in Italy, and two others are in critical condition.

Tragically, one of the victims passed away.

According to Rai News, a man took a knife from supermarket Carrefour before attacking customers seemingly at random, including Mari.

Members of the public rushed the attacker before the Carabinieri, one of Italy’s law enforcement agencies, took control of the situation.

Investigators have ruled out terrorism as a possible motive at the moment while the authorities are still probing the incident that has left several people hospitalized.

One witness, a young girl, said: “Now that we are far away we are calmer but we were really terrified, we did not understand what was happening, we saw people running away.”