{"id":60661,"date":"2020-02-03T11:40:36","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T03:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60661"},"modified":"2020-02-03T12:29:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T04:29:36","slug":"london-police-shoot-man-over-terrorism-related-stabbings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60661","title":{"rendered":"London police shoot man over \u2018terrorism-related\u2019 stabbings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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LONDON, Feb 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Police shot dead a man wearing a “hoax” explosive device after a stabbing attack in south London that left three people wounded and was described by police as a “terrorism-related incident”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The London ambulance service said three people had been taken to hospital after the attack on Sunday in Streatham, a residential district south of the River Thames.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police said one of the wounded was in a life-threatening condition and that the scene of the incident was fully contained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“A device was found strapped to the body of the suspect and specialist officers attended. Cordons were put in place and it was quickly established that this was a hoax device,” said Lucy D’Orsi, deputy assistant commissioner in the Metropolitan Police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some witnesses said the attacker had been armed with a machete and one described him as wearing silver canisters on his chest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A witness Karker Tahir said he was at work when he saw police chasing a man down Streatham High Road, the area’s main shopping district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“They kept telling him, ‘Stop! Stop!'” Tahir said. “But he didn’t stop, and then I saw that they shot him three times. It was horrible seeing it. The man was on the floor and it looked like he had something, which police said may be a device.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Officers responded quickly to the stabbings because of a “proactive counter-terrorism operation” that was underway, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prime Minister Boris Johnson<\/a> thanked the emergency services for their response. “My thoughts are with the injured and all those affected,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, said in a statement after Sunday’s incident: “Terrorists seek to divide us and to destroy our way of life – here in London, we will never let them succeed.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last such incident in London took place in November, when police shot dead a man wearing a fake explosive vest who stabbed two people to death and wounded three more before being wrestled to the ground by bystanders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authorities had called it a “terrorist attack”. — NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LONDON, Feb 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Police shot dead a man wearing a “hoax” explosive device after a stabbing attack in south London that left three people wounded and was described by police as a “terrorism-related incident”. The London ambulance service said three people had been taken to hospital after the attack on Sunday in Streatham, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":60683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209,296],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60661"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}