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A knife-wielding assailant stabbed two college students to death in the streets of Nottingham and then fatally stabbed a middle-aged man, stole his van and ran down three pedestrians in a shocking early morning rampage.

The man, who has not yet been named, turned up at MI5s headquarters in London in August, the Sun reports. He was allegedly moved on by security personnel after demanding to be let in.

Officers arrested the man, believed to be a migrant from West Africa, at 5.40am on Tuesday morning on suspicion of murder.

Nottinghamshire Police applied to magistrates for an extension to question the 31-year-old man on Wednesday and were granted another 36 hours.

The dead included two 19-year-old students from the University of Nottingham in the shocking early morning rampage.

Tributes have been pouring in for 'star' students Grace Kumar and Barnaby Webber, who were stabbed to death in a random attack in Nottingham on Tuesday morning.

The family of a 19-year-old university student who was stabbed to death in the early hours of Tuesday morning in Nottingham are in bits, after three people were killed and three others injured.

Police arrested a 31-year-old man on suspicion of murder. The Nottinghamshire Police force said investigators believe the perpetrator acted alone and detectives were working with counterterrorism officers to try to establish a motive.

Two students walking home from a night out were among three killed by a knifeman in Nottingham on Tuesday.

A man has been arrested in connection with a number of incidents in the city.