WASHINGTON (WJLA/AP) -- Police Chief Cathy Lanier has temporarily shut down McFadden’s Restaurant and Saloon after five people were stabbed and seriously wounded early Saturday morning. 
 
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 More on this story Christmas week brings 12 shootings in 4 days to D.C. The police chief's closure notice can be seen on the front door of McFadden's. (Photo: Alex Brauer/WJLA) The police chief's closure notice was posted on the front door of McFadden's. (Photo: Alex Brauer/WJLA) Police outside McFadden's following stabbing of five people, Dec. 27, 2014. (Photo: WJLA) 
 
 Police say the incident happened inside of McFadden's on Pennsylvania Avenue at 24th Street NW just after 12:30 a.m. on Saturday. 
 
 One man who was at the bar told ABC7 "there was blood all over the floor." 
 
 The father of one of the victims told ABC7 that the victims grew up together and were at the bar celebrating a birthday. 
 
 Police say the victims suffered serious injuries but all are expected to survive. 
 
 Police say no arrests have been made, and they are searching for two suspects. 
 
 The following notice was posted on McFadden’s front door: 
 
 Notice of Closure 
 
 Notice is hereby given that the Chief of Police, pursuant to her authority under the Emergency Suspension of Liquor License Act of 2005 (D.C. Law 16-20; D.C. Official Codes), hereby closes this establishment at: 
 
 1710 Hrs December 27, 2014 
 
 for a period not to exceed 96 hours, subject to a hearing and disposition by the Alcoholic Beverage and Control Board. 
 
 The Chief of Police finds that the continued operation of this establishment would present an imminent danger to the health, safety and welfare of the public; that there is an additional imminent danger to the health and welfare of the public by not closing this establishment; and that there is no immediately available measure to ameliorate these findings. ||||| Tavis Smiley shuts down Bill O’Reilly on police violence: ‘How many isolated incidents equal a pattern?’ 
 
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 Five people were stabbed early on Saturday in a restaurant in Washington, D.C., police said. The incident occurred around 12:30 a.m. at McFadden’s, a popular restaurant and nightclub on Pennsylvania Avenue, eight blocks from the White House in the nation’s capital. 
 
 All five victims were taken to hospital with knife wounds, a police spokesman said Saturday. Their identities have not been released. 
 
 Police said the stabbing happened inside the bar. Photos posted on Twitter Saturday show a blood-splattered sidewalk. 
 
 Calls to McFadden’s requesting comment were not returned. 
 
 (Reporting by John Clarke; Editing by Frank McGurty and Alison Williams)
– A man in a trench coat is suspected in the stabbing of five people in a popular Washington, DC restaurant and club. The victims were attacked in the early hours of this morning at McFadden's, on Pennsylvania Avenue, eight blocks from the White House, the Raw Story reports. Two people were seriously injured, and all were hospitalized, but authorities expect them to survive, police say. The victims were childhood friends out for a birthday, the father of one tells WJLA. Authorities are on the lookout for an attacker who, they say, escaped the bar, the Washington Post reports. "McFadden’s can be a rowdy place, but it was not a violent place," says a graduate of nearby George Washington University.