Three people were killed and three others injured Saturday evening in a park in Reading, a town near London. A suspect has been arrested.
the attack at The knife that made three dead and three seriously injured Saturday evening in Reading, west of London, is regarded as “terrorist”, has announced this Sunday the british police. “The anti-terrorist police can now confirm” that the facts, that occurred in a city park, “were reported as being of a terrorist nature,” according to a press release from the local police. A suspect, 25-year-old was arrested and placed in custody shortly after the incident. The Express train made the point on the situation.
Attack in the park
witnesses quoted by the news agency PA reported that a man had attacked several groups gathered in the park in the evening sun. “The park was full, a lot of people were sitting for a drink with friends when someone came in, suddenly shouted words, unintelligible and went toward a group of a dozen people, trying to attack them with a knife”, told the british agency PA Lawrence Wort, a witness to the scene.
“He stabbed three of them, severely in the neck and under the arms, and then he turned around and started running towards me, it turned and started to run”, explained the coach of 20 years. “When he realized that he could not catch up with us, he was able to reach a person at the back of the neck, and when he saw that everyone began to run, it is party in the park”, he told.
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Three dead, three injured
Three people were killed during the attack with a knife, according to the police, which does not currently track terrorist. The attack has also made three serious injuries.
The Prime minister Boris Johnson has sent his “thoughts to all those who have been affected by the terrible events of Reading” in a tweet thanking the emergency services. The Interior minister Priti Patel said it was “deeply concerned”, also on Twitter.
The assailant arrested, the terrorist nature selected
A suspect, 25-year-old and inhabitant of this city of 200,000 inhabitants located about 60 kilometres from the british capital, was arrested and placed in custody shortly after the incident. The investigators believe that the author has acted alone, according to the head of the anti-terrorist police, Neil Basu. “We don’t seek anyone else”, he said. If the motives of this “horrible act” are “far from certain”, the terrorism that has taken the lead in investigations, he explained.
Several british media present the suspect as a libyan refugee. According to the Daily Telegraph, citing a security source, his “mental health” is considered a “major factor”.
Boris Johnson said he “was shocked”
The Prime minister Boris Johnson said he was “outraged and sickened that people have lost their lives in this way”. “If lessons need to be learned”, “we will”, he said, claiming that the government “would not hesitate to take action” where it would be needed. The head of the conservative government, was held Sunday morning a meeting with security officials and several ministers in Downing Street and has been informed of the progress of the investigation, according to a spokesperson.
The French president Emmanuel Macron has expressed its support “to the british people”. “France stands at each moment alongside the United Kingdom in the face of the scourge of terrorism”, he tweeted.
No link with the event “Black lives matter”
The incident occurred in the vicinity of the place where earlier in the day had held a demonstration of the anti-racism movement “Black lives matter”, but the organizers as well as the police believed that there was no link. The incident occurred three hours after the end of the event, according to police.
None of the people who took part in the event has not been affected, said an organizer, Nieema Hassan in a video on the social networks. “We were gone when it happened.”
The United Kingdom, wounded twice in recent months
The United Kingdom has experienced two attacks called terrorists in recent months. At the end of November, a jihadist on parole killed two people in the heart of London. The assailant, who was wearing an explosive vest fake, was shot dead by the police on the bridge from London Bridge.
On February 2, three persons were injured with a knife during an attack “of such a nature that the islamist”, according to the police in a shopping street in south London. The assailant, already convicted of terrorist crimes, had been killed by the police.
