Southport child dance class attacks.

[Old Frightful]

Two children dead and nine others injured.

Simply wicked, what else is there to say?

[JohnM]

Tragic incident....with more bad news to come, I suspect.

[Maximus Decimus]

My best mate is from Southport and has a young girl. He's from that area and for a while I feared the worst. Luckily for him he's OK, but they were only a few streets away. These incidents are always tragic, but when it's in a place familiar to you it feels that much more sickening.

I was trying to find information on-line, and I was pleased to find out that people have matured and don't believe the first rumour that gets spread across the Internet.

Oh wait, that's not what happened at all .

[Padge]

Awful news, and the idiots are trying to exploit it, it is hard to comprehend what the families involved must be going through.

An ITV news reader you could tell was struggling conveying the news,

[Futtocks]

32 minutes ago, Maximus Decimus said:

My best mate is from Southport and has a young girl. He's from that area and for a while I feared the worst. Luckily for him he's OK, but they were only a few streets away. These incidents are always tragic, but when it's in a place familiar to you it feels that much more sickening.

I was trying to find information on-line, and I was pleased to find out that people have matured and don't believe the first rumour that gets spread across the Internet.

Oh wait, that's not what happened at all .

Fake news is out of the gate and halfway down the street before real reporting gets going, because the latter has to find out what happened and the former had the story already written ages ago, save for the names and places.

[Maximus Decimus]

15 minutes ago, Futtocks said:

Fake news is out of the gate and halfway down the street before real reporting gets going, because the latter has to find out what happened and the former had the story already written ages ago, save for the names and places.

I just can't believe that in this day and age, after everything that has happened over the years like this that these people didn't think yo maybe not believe the first rumour they saw on the Internet.