Tube station stabbing rampage a terror attack

British police were investigating a stabbing at an east London subway station Saturday evening as a “terrorist incident” after the attacker reportedly claimed he had acted “for Syria”.

Police said they were called at 7.06pm (1906 GMT) to reports of a number of people being stabbed at the suburban station on the Central Line. Officers used a Taser stun gun on the suspect, who was reportedly threatening other people with a knife, they said.

A stabbing at a Leytonstone station, east London is being treated as a “terrorist incident”, the Met Police has said.

“I saw pedestrians shouting at him, one tried to throw a bottle and the police officers said “back off” and took him to the police van”.

In 2005, suicide bombers attacked three Underground trains and a double-decker bus in a coordinated attack that left 52 people dead and more than 770 wounded.

“We are treating this as a terrorist incident”, CTC leader Commander Richard Walton said in a police statement.

Britain is on its second-highest alert level of “severe”, meaning a militant attack is considered highly likely.

Police said initial reports indicated the man had also threatened other bystanders.

The Tube station shopkeeper Salim, who saw the attack unfold, told LBC radio: “I just hear the screaming and shouting and I thought, usually drunken people do that, but the victim was shouting “Somebody help, somebody help”.

Video posted on Twitter shows the moment the alleged knifeman being Tasered by a police officer as pools of blood mark the floor in the Leytonstone Underground station.

Police tape is seen at a crime scene at Leytonstone underground station in east London, Britain December 6, 2015.

The video depicts a tense scene as officers surround the man, dressed in khaki trousers and a gray shirt, and demand that he surrender.

“We are treating this as a terrorist incident”.

“The tall man was punching him so hard and when they fall on the floor he started kicking him and then I called the police”.

A fresh wave of Royal Air Force strikes hit a key oil field held by the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant inside Syria yesterday.