UK police probe ‘terrorist’ knife attack at London station

Scotland Yard said officers arrived at the scene within five minutes of the emergency calls and the 29-year-old suspect was restrained and arrested after police discharged a Taser.

Eyewitnesses said the attacker had reportedly shouted out “This is for Syria”.

Graphic footage of the attacks posted online soon after the incident show a large pool of blood spattered on the station floor.

Isil has repeatedly threatened to attack British citizens, and warned on Thursday that Britain would be the next target, just hours after MPs approved air strikes on the terror group’s strongholds in Syria.

Intelligence obtained by European security agencies indicates ISIS is aiming to attack the United Kingdom as a follow-up to its attacks in Paris last month, a senior European counterterrorism official told CNN.

The victim, a 56-year-old man, suffered “serious” stab wounds and was taken to hospital, but was not believed to be in a life-threatening condition.

Prominent personalities, common people along with British Muslims took the opportunity to counter both terrorism and Islamophobia in one go, as Britain clearly took the edge in the fight against hate.

They show police confronting a man in the ticket area of the station, who is brandishing an object in his hand.

Michael helps run an art gallery next door to the tube station, which he was packing up with his wife when they heard people screaming and running from the station.

However, one of the men injured in the attack slammed those who filmed the incident on their phones rather than rush to help.

Mr Patel, a father-of-six, said he called the police and described how the man was Tasered.

The man was only subdued after unformed officers, who were first on the scene, deployed Tasers and disarmed him.

But the words “You ain’t no Muslim bruv” yelled by an onlooker during an horrific stabbing attack in an East London tube station perfectly sum up a city’s courage in the face of terror. You aint no Muslim.

A spokesperson for the mayor of London said: “The Mayor was briefed by the Commissioner”.

Officers shout “Put the knife down!” and “Drop it now!” at the stunned man, who did drop the short-bladed knife as he quivered on the ground.

The hashtag #YouAintNoMuslimBruv has exploded on Twitter after a passer-by shouted the remark at a knife-wielding man who injured three people in a London Underground station.

“There was a guy with a rucksack saying “Calm down, let’s talk about this” and I saw this guy was going to go for him”.

Detectives were searching a residential address in east London and additional officers were being deployed to the rail transport network, police said.

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