VIDEO: London Tube station stabbing a ‘terrorist incident’

British police investigating a “terrorist incident” at an east London Tube station have urged witnesses who filmed the stabbing to share their footage with detectives.
VIDEO: London Tube station stabbing a ‘terrorist incident’

The knife attack on three people at a Tube station was being treated as a terrorist incident, police have said.

The man, who was said to be wielding a machete, reportedly said “this is for Syria” after he launched the attack at Leytonstone station in east London. Shocking video footage posted online shows a large pool of blood spattered across the floor of the ticket hall as a man, believed to be 29, is seen threatening other passengers in the station.

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