An Italian man

stabbed five people on Thursday

, three of them seriously, including the Spanish Monza soccer player Pablo Marí Villar, in an event that took place

in a supermarket in the town of Assago

, on the outskirts of Milan and whose author was detained by the police, the media reported.

The attack occurred around 6:30 p.m. (4:30 p.m. GMT) when a 45-year-old man grabbed a knife from the shelves of a Carrefour supermarket located inside a shopping center and began stabbing those present, injuring five of them. , according to the first information.

Among the injured there are four men, aged 28, 30, 40 and 80 years, and

three were seriously injured

and the most serious had to be evacuated by helicopter.

According to these media,

one of the injured is the Spanish defender on loan

this season to Monza owned by Silvio Berlusconi, but his condition is unknown.

At the moment, it is not clear

if it was a fight or a person with

mental problems.

The Carrefour chain, to which the hypermarket belongs, expressed in a note "its maximum closeness to the

employees and customers involved in the attack

and their families" and confirmed that the police were immediately called and that the attacker was arrested.

The company also immediately activated "a

psychological support

service for all employees directly or indirectly involved in the incident."

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