Department Confirms Stabbing of 11-Year-Old Australian Girl in London

Police have charged a Romanian national with the attempted murder of a young Australian tourist.

Police officers at the scene in Leicester Square, London, as a man has been arrested after an 11-year-old girl and 34-year-old woman were stabbed. James Manning/PA Wire

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has confirmed an 11-year-old Australian girl from New South Wales was the victim of a random stabbing attack in London.

The young tourist was grabbed and stabbed eight times after a man approached her and her mother in Leicester Square on Aug. 12.