Police step up patrols after Underground stabbing

Deputy Chief Constable Adrian Hanstock from the British Transport Police said the number of firearms teams had doubled in the past year and they had boosted the number of officers and patrols across the London underground network in response to Saturday’s stabbing.

One person was arrested.

He was eventually pinned down after a stun gun was used.

“Following Saturday’s incident, we are now deploying still more officers in this role”.

Britain’s Counter-Terrorism Command is investigating and its leader Richard Walton said: “We are treating this as a terrorist incident”.

Pantucci also said the speed with which police had labelled the attack a terrorist incident made it likely the attacker had linked his actions to Syria.

An eyewitness quoted by The Guardian said the attacker appeared to claim that he was retaliating for Western attacks on Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group militants in Syria.

Video shows an alleged attacker appearing to wield a knife at a tube station in east London on Saturday.

Salim Patel (59), who runs the station shop and saw the attack unfold, said he heard shouts and saw the attacker beat up his victim before leaving him unconscious on the station floor. Newton urged the public to “remain calm and carry on using public transport as normal”.

Detectives are searching a residential address in east London after the “violent unprovoked knife attack”, which is being treated as a “terrorist incident”.

Britain was already on edge after Islamic extremist attacks in Paris last month left 130 people dead.

It is also claimed Mire brandished the knife at other members of the public, aiming it at the throat of at least two of them.

The most seriously injured victim, a 56-year-old man, was in a stable condition in hospital Sunday night and his injuries were not believed to be life threatening.

Officers from Waltham Forest borough arrived at the scene within five minutes of the emergency calls and were confronted by a man who was still in possession of a knife. “Stupid idiot”, after the man is Tasered. “You ain’t no Muslim”. “You ain’t no Muslim”.

A police vehicle is seen parked outside Leytonstone station in north London on Sunday.

Britain’s worst Islamist militant attack was in July 2005, when 52 people were killed by suicide bombs on underground trains and a bus.

A spokesperson for 10 Downing Street said: “There is an ongoing police investigation into the attack in London”.