Idaho mass stabbing: Nine people including six children injured in horrific knife attack at toddler's birthday party

Idaho mass stabbing: police investigate at the crime scene
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Nine people including six children have been injured in a mass stabbing at a three-year-old’s birthday party in Idaho.

A man who had been asked to leave an apartment block because of "bad behaviour" returned the following day to knife his victims at the toddler’s party, police said.

The birthday girl and five other children, whose ages range from four to 12, were injured in the horrifying attack at about 8.45pm on Saturday night.

Victims of the mass stabbing were found by police and paramedics lying in the street, in a nearby car park and inside the apartment block.

Crime scene: Police tape blocks off an area at the Idaho apartment complex
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Local police said the most gravely injured in the violent scenes were still fighting for life in hospital on Sunday evening.

Boise Police Chief William Bones said: "The victims are some of the newest members of our community… This was an attack against those who are most vulnerable."

Timmy Kinner, 30, was arrested a short distance away following the shocking incident.

Arrested: Timmy Kinner, 30, was detained nearby
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Investigators later found knife, believed to be the one used for the stabbing, in a nearby canal.

Members of refugee families from Syria, Iraq and Ethiopia were among the injured.

Flowers are left just outside the apartment building where the horrifying scenes unfolded
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Kinner, who is not a refugee, had been asked to leave the apartment complex because of "bad behaviour" after staying there for a short time with a resident, Mr Bones said.

Police have not yet elaborated upon what he had done.

Boise Police Chief Bill Bones reacts while releasing the ages of the child victims at a news conference
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The suspect faces several felony charges, including aggravated battery and injury to a child following the stabbing.

"We have no specific evidence at this time to believe it was a hate crime," Mr Bones told reporters at a press conference yesterday.

He said the victims may have been targeted simply because of where they were locate on the property.

The motive for the stabbing remained under investigation.

The attack resulted in the most victims in a single incident in Boise Police Department history, according to Mr Bones.

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