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Girl, nine, stabbed outside cinema

Monday 23 October 2000 00:00 BST
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Andrew Feinberg

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A nine-year-old girl is in hospital tonight after being repeatedly stabbed outside an Edinburgh cinema.

A nine-year-old girl is in hospital tonight after being repeatedly stabbed outside an Edinburgh cinema.

She was attacked with a knife in the car park of the Fountainpark cinema complex at about 2pm.

Police say a youth aged about 15 was seen running away.

The girl is being treated in the city's Royal Hospital for Sick Children. Her condition is described as "stable".

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