Several people were stabbed in the Stratham area of London, metropolitan police said on Twitter.
The report notes that law enforcement officers shot the attacker.
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“Circumstances are being clarified, the incident has been found to be related to terrorism”, – the agency suggested, urging to avoid the state of emergency.
As clarifies, in turn, Sky News, the incident happened in the south of the British capital, where an unknown man with a knife tried to provoke a massacre.
Previously, users of social networks posted photos of a man shot dead by police and videos from the scene. One of them shows how a man near a BMW police officer with flashing beacons points a gun at a person lying on the ground.
On the other, several police officers with weapons in their hands approach a lying man, and then run away from him.