3 February
A knife-wielding man has been shot dead by police in South London after stabbing two people on a street filled with weekend shoppers. London's Metropolitan Police have declared the attack as a terrorist-related incident inspired by Islamic extremism.
The attack took place in Streatham on Sunday. The attacker was shot dead on the spot by officers.
Metropolitan Police say one of the two victims was seriously wounded and that a person near the crime scene was also lightly injured.
Police say the attacker was wearing on his body what appeared to be explosives, but that they turned out to be fake.
Media reports say the incident temporarily caused panic on the street crowded with Sunday shoppers.
In a separate case last November, an attacker believed to have been inspired by Islamic extremism, stabbed two people to death and injured three others on London Bridge in the city center.
NHK
