AFP, SAN FRANCISCO: Ten people were wounded after a stabbing spree broke out during a neo-Nazi rally Sunday at California’s state capitol building, officials said.
The white supremacist rally was met by counter-protesters, Sacramento Fire Department spokesman Chris Harvey told AFP.
One female and 9 male patients had “multiple stab and laceration wounds,” the fire department said on Twitter. It was unclear to which group the wounded, who ranged in age from 19 to 58, belonged.
Of those injured, at least two were in critical condition, Harvey said.
The stabbing spree broke out when some 25 neo-Nazis, who had permission to protest on the capitol’s west steps, clashed with more than 150 anarchists and “anti-fascist” counter-protesters, the Sacramento Bee newspaper reported.
Videos and photos posted online showed the crowd grow violent, with some members swinging what appeared to be wood clubs, while others hurled rocks.
Crowd members helped an injured and bloody black man lying on the sidewalk in a video posted online by the Bee. Two white men with blood dripping down their shaved heads were escorted by police in footage taken by CNN.