However, in the wake of a string of recent attacks in Europe, the authorities said that “terrorism remains one line of inquiry being explored”. He is being held at a local hospital, police said.
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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.
A Briton injured in the attack is still in hospital while a man from the U.S., an Australian man, an Australian woman and an Israeli woman were released from hospital Thursday after receiving treatment. “We came around the corner and there were armed police everywhere … a massive police presence … and a corpse lying in the street covered in a blanket”, the man, who gave his name as Paul, said.
A teenager charged with carrying out a knife attack in London which left an American tourist dead and five people injured will appear in court for the first time later.
A police forensic officer works in Russell Square in London early on August 4, 2016, after a knife attack in which a woman in her 60s was killed.
“In some of our big iconic locations, we’ve already got armed patrols – if you look at Parliament, Downing Street – so it’s not entirely new”, Metropolitan Police Chief Bernard Hogan-Howe said. They have said, though, that Bulhan may suffer from mental illness.
The rampage prompted a response tailored for a terror attack, but police said after initial investigation there was no evidence of link to radicalisation or terrorism.
Norwegian police confirmed that the suspect is a Norwegian citizen who was “registered as having emigrated from Norway in 2002”. British detectives questioning a 19-year-old Norwegian of Somali origin over a stabbing spree in London said Thursday they had found no evidence of terror motives or radicalisation. He was treated at a hospital and then taken into custody at a police station in South London.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan called for the public to remain “calm and vigilant”.
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Mr Rowley said 999 calls started coming in just after 10.30pm on Wednesday with reports of a man attacking people with a knife.
