New vision shows the moment London police taser and arrest a man after a “terrorist incident” leaves a man seriously injured at Leytonstone Tube station.
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Other media outlets reported the suspect shouted “This is for Syria” although the phrase is not evident in footage circulating online.
Saturday evening’s attack came at the end of a week in which the British parliament voted to extend air strikes on the Islamic State militant group from Iraq into Syria.
“One witness shouted “You’re no Muslim” at the suspect as he was pinned down by officers at Leytonstone station, amateur video footage showed, while a pool of blood was seen in the ticket hall”.
In one witness video, an onlooker is heard yelling at the detained attacker: “You ain’t no Muslim, bruv!”.
The Metropolitan Police said one man suffered “serious knife injuries” but was not thought to be in a life threatening condition.
Police tape is seen at a crime scene at Leytonstone underground station in east London, Britain December 6, 2015.
Detectives were searching a residential address in east London, the police said.
The underground station reopened at 0300 GMT on Sunday.
A knifeman slashed a man’s throat at a busy London tube station shouting “this is for Syria” before being Tasered by the police, according to reports. “And then he’s screaming ‘go on then, run, run” and there’s people like wanting to go forward to try and help the guy, but the guy’s standing just right next to him, just brandishing the knife’.
British counter-terrorist forces say the threat of terrorism remains severe after a man wounded three people. He then saw “a guy, an adult, lying on the floor with a guy standing next to him brandishing a knife of about three inches… maybe a hobby knife”.
Hannah Phillips Haynes is a Kiwi from Palmerston North, now living in London with husband Michael Haynes.
One eyewitness told the BBC that people barracked the suspect as police led him away and one person threw a bottle at him.
A spokeswoman from London Ambulance Service said: “We were called at 7:09pm to reports of an assault at Leytonstone underground station”.
“We looked outside the door and saw a woman had collapsed on the ground – she was hysterical”, Michael said.
‘We treated a man for stab wounds.
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Michael said he had spent some time in East London, and hadn’t found it to be a risky area.
