A young female police officer has been left with potentially life-changing injuries after she and a colleague were stabbed in central London by a "frenzied individual", police said.

Scotland Yard said a man in his 20s has been arrested after two officers - one male and one female - were attacked in the Leicester Square area at around 6am.

The female officer was stabbed through a vein in her arm suffering "massive blood loss", a police source said - an injury which could be life-changing.

The male officer was stabbed three times in the neck and once in the chest but is expected to make a full recovery, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said.

A man in his 20s has been arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm and assaulting an emergency worker.

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