Child knife deaths plunge sleepy UK town into 'sadness and misery'

Girls aged nine, six and seven died and another five children and two adults were left with critical injuries. "Last night the streets were so quiet, you could taste the sadness and the misery of it all," Jenkins, a 52-year-old writer, told AFP. "Now it's just the aftermath and the shock of the fact that we're all having to come to terms with it." One of the biggest questions was how it could happen in the sleepy town. - 'Pull together' -Bar worker Connor Hodge, 24, also declared himself "in shock" that the deaths could happen "so close to home".