Suriname | Pakistan

A man stabbed to death nine people, including five children, overnight in Suriname’s capital Paramaribo, police said Sunday, adding the suspect was wounded and arrested. The man appeared to be suffering from mental health issues, and four of his own children were among the fatalities in the attack, which took place in and around his home, according to local media reports. The suspect had an argument with his wife over the phone before stabbing one of the victims, his 11-year-old daughter, 44 times in the kitchen of their home, local media reported. “A man killed four adults and five children with a sharp object at a residence in Hadji Iding Soemitaweg,” the local police said in a statement. “A sixth child and an adult were seriously injured and were transported” to the hospital, according to the statement. Officers who arrived on the scene had to open fire on the suspect, as “he attacked police with a sharp object,“ the statement said. The man sustained a gunshot wound to the leg and has been hospitalised und...