One of the 5 injured in the attack with a katana carried out this morning in an underground station on the outskirts of London has died. This is a boy of just 13 years old, as announced by the British police in an update. The 36-year-old arrested for the attack is now accused of murder, as well as attempted multiple murder.
The attack happened near the Hainault metro stationin the north-east of the city.
It is not an act of terrorism, London police said. “We do not believe there is any ongoing threat to the community. We are not looking for any other suspects,” Deputy Commander Ade Adelekan said. It also emerged that the attacker was armed with a katana.
Furthermore, it emerged that three of the injured are citizens who were passing by near the Tube station in the suburban area of London while the other two are police officers. The very serious event which occurred in the capital of the United Kingdom was commented by the Home Secretary James Cleverly, who expressed solidarity with those affected and thanked the rescuers as well as asking not to speculate on the ongoing investigations. Similar words were expressed by the Labor opposition leader Keir Starmer who described the news arriving from Hainault as “very bad”. The episode of violence takes place two days before the local elections on 2 May in England and Wales, which include the vote for the mayor of London where the Labor Party Sadiq Khan appears certain to be confirmed for a new mandate but is targeted by his rival Tory, Susan Hall, on issues such as the perception of insecurity in the metropolis.
Even if Scotland Yard has expressly asked not to speculate, once a terrorist motive has been ruled out, the possibility remains of a fit that pushed the man armed with a sword, it appears from the first images released to be a katana, to attack indiscriminately those he met in front of him. at the Tube station. “We were called just before 7am to reports of a vehicle having crashed into a house in the Thurlow Gardens area. There were reports of people being stabbed,” reads the note released by the Met Police.
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