Beetham Tower: Woman attacked in Manchester Hilton hotel
Image copyright Anthony HiltonArmed police are at a hotel in Manchester where a woman was attacked and left with serious neck injuries.
Police said the victim managed to flag down officers outside Beetham Tower on Deansgate at about 11:10 BST.
Four men, a woman and a teenage girl have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
The victim has lacerations to her neck and crime scene officers are searching one of the Hilton's hotel rooms and the street outside the tower.
Greater Manchester Police said the attack is not believed to be related to terrorism or thought to be a random act.
The four arrested men are aged 20, 24, 26 and 26, the woman is 20 and the teenage girl is 17.
They are all in custody for questioning and inquiries are ongoing, police said.
Cordons are in place outside the hotel in central Manchester, where three marked police cars remain.
A section of pavement opposite the hotel outside the 340 Deansgate office building has also been blocked off.
Three marked police vehicles remain outside the front of the hotel.
Anthony Hilton, 32, who works in a nearby letting agents, told the Press Association: "There must have been 15 undercover and normal police cars out in the street.
"Police were running to and fro from the car park and the Hilton hotel."
