LONDON — In what police are calling a "terrorist incident", a knife-wielding man attacked and injured three people at a London metro Station on December 5, before being brought down and apprehended, the BBC reports.
A witness to the attack at Leytonstone station in the city's east told The Guardian he saw people running from something. On approaching the ticket gates at around 7 p.m., he saw a man holding a small knife standing near a man lying on the ground.
Video taken by bystanders shows the attacker slash at a man seconds before the first police officer arrives. Witnesses say the man yelled "this is for Syria", before the police officer fired a stun gun on the man from several meters away, to no effect. Another officer arrived and one used a stun gun to bring the attacker down. They then arrested him.
The most seriously injured man sustained non-threatening injuries, the BBC reports.
Commander Richard Walton, head of London police's counter-terror unit said in a press statement, "We are treating this as a terrorist incident. I would urge the public to remain calm, but alert and vigilant. The threat from terrorism remains at severe, which means that a terrorist attack is highly likely."
The incident will calls to mind the May 2013 murder of British army soldier Lee Rigby, who was killed by two Muslim converts in a daylight machete attack, also in London.
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