London: fatality knife fighter attack in London – Virtual Poland

• One person was killed and five were wounded in the attack knife fighter at Russell Square in central London

 • Three injured people have been released from the hospital

 • 19-year-old striker was arrested

 • The police did not rule out a terrorist motive

 • ongoing questioning of witnesses

 • Police appeal to people who have any information on the case, reported to services
 

One person was killed and five were wounded in the attack knife fighter at Russell Square in central London – said on the night from Wednesday to Thursday the police does not exclude a terrorist motive. Attacker was arrested.

See also: Photos from the place of attack
 

Service were called about 22.33 local time (23.33 Polish time) after reports of an attack knife fighter. Six minutes later, the perpetrator was overpowered stun gun and arrested after killing more than 60-year-old woman and wounding five other people, including another woman and four men.
 

 During the night press conference, Mark Rowley from the Metropolitan Police said that according to the first findings of the mental health of the perpetrator “is an important factor,” and “remains the main line of investigation”, but noted that the services are not able to rule out a terrorist motive.
 

He added that at this stage of the investigation department investigates the case for. Killings with the support of the anti-terrorist branch SO15. Even earlier, in the first statement handed to the media, the London police estimated that “terrorism is one of the tested capabilities at this stage of the investigation.”
 

Rowley also said that Londoners should be expected on Thursday reinforced the presence of armed police patrolling the streets of the city.
 

Russell Square is a square in central London, close to the British Museum. In July 2005, just in this area there has been attacks on the London underground and a bus, resulting in the deaths of 56 people and more than 700 were wounded.
 

The attacks involving knives are not uncommon in London: according to the Metropolitan Police, last year, police were called to approx. 9 thousand. incidents. In the past 12 months, 12 people died and 291 were seriously injured.
 

The incident occurred less than 24 hours after the head of the Metropolitan Police, Bernard Hogan-Howe and Mayor of Sadiq Khan reported that the streets of the British capital will be patrolling the 600 armed police in order to prevent terrorist attacks similar to those observed in the countries of continental Europe.
 

 Hogan-Howe and Khan stressed on Wednesday morning that the decision was preventive in nature and is not connected with obtaining intelligence information about the immediate, specific threat. The level of terrorist threat in London, however, remains at the level of “serious” – the fourth in a five-point scale – meaning that an attack is “highly possible”.