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The attack in central London. Police: do not rule out a terrorist motive
Service were called about 22.33 local time (23.33 Polish time) after reports of an attack knife fighter. Six minutes later, 19-year-old man was overpowered stun gun and arrested. As she wrote in a statement handed to the media the London police, “terrorism is one of the tested capabilities at this stage of the investigation.” The wounded have multiple stab wounds.
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 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.
As pointed out, this decision is 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”.
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