“Mental health” might be to blame.
Let the psychobabble begin.
Google “London stabbings”, there is quite a lot of stabbing going on.
Russell Square stabbings: One dead, five hurt in London attack
A woman has died and five other people were injured in a knife attack in Russell Square, central London.
Police were called at 22:33 BST on Wednesday to reports of a man injuring people with a knife, including a woman in her 60s who later died.
A 19-year-old man was arrested at 22:39 after a Taser was discharged by an officer. The Met said mental health was a “significant factor” in the events.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan called for the public to remain “calm and vigilant”.
You bet he would. Next statement “nothing to do with Islam”.
Mr Khan said his “heart goes out to the victims of the incident in Russell Square and their loved ones”.
Two other women and three men received various injuries in the attack, Scotland Yard confirmed later.
Paul O’Geibheannaigh, who lives near to the square, said he had seen the body of the woman “on the pavement” and the area was surrounded by a “heavy armed police presence”.
“I haven’t seen a police presence like that in this area since 7/7,” he said, referring to the terror attacks on the London transport system in July 2005.
‘I heard a scream, then I saw the blood’: Woman in her 60s is killed and five people are injured as man, 19, ‘goes on rampage in a terrorist knife attack’ in Russell Square where 7/7 bomb was detonated
- Woman in her 60s has died and five others injured after knifeman, 19, ‘went on the rampage’ in London
- Police called to Russell Square at 10.30pm last night after witnesses say screaming victims tried to flee
- One witness said: ‘There was a madman running around with a knife just lunging at people randomly and stabbing them. He was just going for anyone he could see’
- Suspect Tasered and is under police guard in hospital – the condition of five other living victims is unknown
- Scotland Yard said incident could be terror related and said knifeman has ‘significant mental health issues’
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London knife attack: Police cannot rule out ‘terrorism as a motivation’ in Russell Square stabbing
Police say they cannot rule out “terrorism as a motivation” after a woman in her sixties was killed and five people were injured in a mass stabbing in Russell Square, and warned Londoners will wake up to an increased police presence on the streets of the capital on Thursday.
The Metropolitan Police said more officers were being deployed as a “precautionary measure” to provide reassurance, but the public were urged to remain “calm, vigilant and alert”.
The incident is being investigated by the Met’s homicide command with the support of counter terrorism police.
One woman dead and five injured in mass stabbing in Russell Square
Speaking outside Scotland Yard in the early hours of Thursday morning, Commander Mark Rowley said it had been a “tragic incident”.
He said: “Police were called just after 10.30pm last night to reports of a man, armed with a knife, assaulting people in Russell Square, Camden.
“Armed officers arrived at the scene within five minutes, they discharged the Taser whilst confronting and arresting the suspect.
“Six people have been injured, including the one woman who sadly died at the scene, and the others have received various injuries.”
Mr Rowley said the dead woman was in her 60s, but it was “inappropriate at this time to give any more personal details about her”.
A 19-year-old man was arrested a shortly after 10.39pm and is currently in police custody at hospital, he added.
Mr Rowley said: “Early indications suggest that mental health is a significant factor in this case and that is one major line of inquiry.
“But of course at this stage we should keep an open mind regarding motive and, consequently, terrorism as a motivation remains but one line of enquiry for us to explore.”
Additional reporting by agencies
This is a real gem:
ATTACK RAISES FEARS ISIS TARGETS MENTALLY ILL
If the Russell Square knife attack is terror-related, it follows warnings that ISIS grooms people with mental health problems to inspire them to carry out murder.
The killing is currently being investigated by the Metropolitan Police’s homicide team with the support of the force’s counter-terrorism unit, but Scotland Yard said early indications suggested “mental health is a significant factor in this case”.
It comes just days after a schizophrenic knifeman who tried to behead a Tube passenger during an Islamic State-inspired rampage was sent to Broadmoor high-security hospital to begin a life sentence.
Somali-born Muhiddin Mire, 30, targeted strangers at random in the ticket hall at Leytonstone Underground station in east London on December 5 last year.
He will serve a minimum of eight and a half years before being considered for parole.
But Mire could serve the entirety of his sentence at the psychiatric unit, which has housed some of the country’s most notorious criminals.
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Islam is a cancer for world peace that is why Islam not accepted world even after it is founded by mahamed before 1400 years. Now Muslims are spreading the Islam by terrorising people by waste to promote the shit.
compared to Christianity it is accepted by whole world due to the worldbest teaching
of jesus christ till date we see peace & freedom of religion where ever it established.