Four People Injured in Knife Attack near White House in Washington

At least four people were injured in a knife attack near the White House in Washington DC, according to local media reports.

The attack, which comes on the heels of start of presidential election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, left three men and a woman injured and were sent to hospital following an altercation near the intersection of 14th Street and New York Avenue Northwest, just two blocks from the White House, according to the DC Police Department.

Police are asking residents to be on the look out for two black males and one black woman, with the latter believed to be armed with a knife.

The victims reportedly told police that their attackers were associated with Black Lives Matter, a liberal-left group which recently gained national and global media attention after organizing protests, some of them violent, in the wake of the police killing of an unarmed black Minneapolis man.