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Police shoot man in London, reports of object strapped to chest & people stabbed Several people stabbed, police shoot knifeman in London ‘terrorist-related incident’
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Police in London have reportedly shot a man in Streatham, and are urging the public to avoid the area. Several people have been reported stabbed, and video footage shared on social media shows armed police on the street. London police have shot a man in the city’s Streatham area in a “terrorist-related” incident. Several people have reportedly been stabbed, and video footage shared on social media shows armed police and ambulances on the street.
Armed police officers descended on the London suburb of Streatham on Sunday afternoon, andshot a knife-wielding criminal dead. The Metropolitan Police said on Twitter that a “number of people have been stabbed,” and that the incident has been declared “terrorist-related.”
Video footage shared on social media shows a man lying on the ground outside a shuttered pharmacy, as armed police officers train their weapons on his unmoving body.
Unconfirmed reports on social media suggest that the man reportedly had some sort of object strapped to his chest.
Police have advised the public to avoid the scene of Sunday’s shooting while emergency services deal with the aftermath.
The incident comes two months after police in London shot a jihadist terrorist dead on London Bridge, after he stabbed two people to death. The murderer had a history of terror offenses and was described by a judge several years earlier as a “serious jihadi.” He was on parole at the time of his stabbing spree.
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