Five other people were injured, including Australian, British, Israeli, and USA citizens. “It does appear to be somebody who had mental mental health problems, according to the police”.
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“There are no words to express our heartache over this bad tragedy”, Florida State University President John Thrasher said. Police said Thursday the suspect is a Norwegian teenager of Somali origin, and that they have not found signs that he was motivated by terrorism.
Mark Rowley, the Metropolitan Police Service’s Assistant Commissioner for Specialist Operations, said police believe the mental health of the suspect to be a “significant factor” in the case, but cautioned that it is just one of several lines of inquiry.
The other four victims – an American man, an Australian woman, an Australian man and an Israeli woman, also suffered stab wounds but have since been discharged.
Early on Thursday, a 19-year-old man committed a knife attack in the United Kingdom capital that led to the death of a woman in her 60s.
Police said a British man with a stab wound to his stomach was hospitalized in serious but stable conditionpot.
Neighbors in south London’s Tooting area, where Bulhan lives with his mother and siblings, said they were shocked to learn he had been accused of the crime.
Mayor Sadiq Khan said Londoners should remain “calm and vigilant” following a knife attack on August 3 in a popular tourist area that killed one and injured five.
Police received calls about 10:33 p.m. London time about a man who had a knife and was attacking people in the Russell Square park.
Two Australians have been released from a London hospital after being injured in a central city stabbing attack that left a USA woman dead.
The London incident followed a series of attacks in other European countries, although Britain had been relatively quite.
The couple had planned to fly home to Tallahassee the next day. The stabbings anxious many who have already been on edge due to prior terrorist attacks in the area and throughout Europe.
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Rowley said “we should be proud of them and the British tradition of using the minimum necessary force”.
