A 14-year-old boy was killed and four others were injured. after a man attacked them with a sword on Tuesday outside a tube station in Hainault, east London, police said.
Of the four wounded, two were police officers. They were hospitalized and had to undergo surgery, although their lives are not in danger, and two other people were also hospitalized, but not seriously.
London Metropolitan Police Chief Superintendent Stuart Bell confirmed the death of the minor. “He was taken to hospital after being stabbed and unfortunately, he died soon after. The child’s family is supported first by my local agents, and now by some specialized agents,” he explained to the media.
London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley admitted this Wednesday that a policeman may lose his hand as a result of the attack.
When This happened early Tuesday morning. near Hainaut metro station, east of the capital. A video filmed by a citizen and broadcast by British media shows the alleged perpetrator of the attack, a man with a beard wearing an ocher hooded sweatshirt.
The man was seen in the photographs walking with a big sword (Japanese style katana) in hand.
“The first thing to say to parents participating in the project is: We lost his 14 year old son and it’s just terrible., it’s everyone’s worst nightmare. “I’m sure we are all thinking about them,” Rowley said in a statement today to BBK.
The Commissioner recalled that agents They arrived at the scene “within 12 minutes” and that the aggressor, a 36-year-old man, “was arrested within 22 minutes.”
“Obviously, some of the first contacts (with the aggressor)“resulted in very serious injuries to officers” said.
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One of the policemen The man has “serious arm injuries” while another police officer (a woman) “spent several hours in surgery yesterday after suffering horribly serious injuries to his arm.”
Regarding the latter, Rowley admitted that Agent “He’s not far” from losing his arm as a result of the attack.
The police have thrown away that the attack has some connection to terrorism.
(according to information from EFE)