The aggressor was arrested. Among the injured are two police officers and they warned that the incident “does not appear to be linked to terrorism.”
April 30, 2024, 09:30 a.m.
The attacker was arrested after injuring five people in the Hainaut area. (Photo: courtesy of The Daily Mail).
A 36-year-old man attacked passers-by with a sword japanese in the east of London. She killed a 13 year old boy and He injured at least four people. He was detained and the incident “does not appear to be linked to terrorism,” police said.
The authorities received a call “shortly before 7am” to go near a subway station in the area of Hainault where according to witnesses “several people had been stabbed”.
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“A man was arrested with a sword”reported in a statement, specifying that, according to witnesses, the suspect had attacked passersby “and two police officers” after crashing a truck into a house.
Footage recorded by witnesses shows police approaching the attacker – a white man, wearing black pants and a yellow hooded sweater – while he brandishes his weapon and a victim lies collapsed on the ground.
The man was detained by the police. (Photo: courtesy of The Daily Mail).
The London ambulance service stated on the social network X that it had “attended five people” who were taken to hospital.
The witnesses claimed to have heard screams and screams. Manpreet Singh, manager of a taxi company, told the newspaper Meter that he saw people shouting that “there was someone with a machete.” Another, with a wound to his neck, said “They stabbed me, they stabbed me” as he walked toward the police.
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“He tried to enter a house, but the police controlled him by shooting him with a Taser,” he said.
Daniel Garfinkle, who lives outside the station, told the Daily Mail that he “woke up at 7am to a lot of screaming.” “There was a guy outside covered in blood, near the station and outside my house. ‘Police were trying to calm down the man who carried out the stabbing. But he headed towards the station. He kept screaming.”
Another neighbor said he saw “a man lying in a pool of blood.”
Police rule out a terrorist attack
“The attack does not appear to be linked to terrorism,” said police chief Ade Adelekan. Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak He spoke of a “dreadful incident.”
“Such violence has no place in our streets,” he wrote on the social network X.
The attacker injured five people, including two police officers. (Photo: courtesy of Metro).
The mayor of London, the Labor Sadiq Khanwas “absolutely devastated” by the attack.
Knife attacks on the rise in the UK
Knife and sword attacks are on the rise in the UK. According to official figures, last year increased by 7%, to almost 50,000in England and Wales.
In London, they shot up 20%with 14,577 attacks recorded, returning to its levels before the coronavirus pandemic.
