SAN JOSE (UNITED STATES) • Two people were stabbed to death and others injured on Sunday night at a church in San Jose, California.

There were "multiple stabbing victims", the police said in a post on Twitter. No services were being held at the time of the attack at Grace Baptist Church, and the police added that "unhoused individuals" had been brought to the church out of the cold.

The church is near the campus of San Jose State University.

Mayor Sam Liccardo had initially said on Twitter, before deleting the post: "Our hearts go out to the families of the two community members who have succumbed to stabbing wounds in the attack at Grace Baptist Church downtown tonight. SJPD (San Jose Police Department) has arrested the suspect.

"Others are seriously wounded, & we keep them in our prayers."

He later tweeted that a statement would be made soon and the police said they had made no arrests. No further information on a motive or a suspect was immediately available.

San Jose, a city of a little more than one million people, is in Silicon Valley, a major tech hub in the Bay Area of California.

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