Police shoot suspect after two stabbed to death at Muslim centre in Lisbon

Police have shot a man after two people were stabbed to death at an Ismaili Muslim centre in Lisbon (Sean Pavone/Alamy/PA)

Portuguese police have shot a man suspected of stabbing two people to death at an Ismaili Muslim centre in Lisbon.

Police were called to the centre on Tuesday morning where they encountered a suspect “armed with a large knife”, a police statement said.