A 15-year-old girl, a 63-year-old woman and two men aged 49 and 22 have lost their lives after a knife attack, where a man attacked them with a knife in the American city of Rockford in Illinois on Wednesday afternoon local time.
The attacks did not take place in the same place, but rather at different addresses in the American city.
In addition to the four killed, seven people are injured, writes the AFP news agency.
The police have arrested the suspected perpetrator. This is stated by the Rockford police in a statement, where it is added that the suspect is a 22-year-old man.
There is no information about the subject.