Two women stabbed to death at Muslim centre in Lisbon

Police officers stand at the entrance of the Ismaili Muslim centre in Lisbon (Armando Franca/AP)

A man wielding a large knife killed two women and injured several other people at an Ismaili Muslim centre in Lisbon in an attack which Portuguese authorities said they were investigating as a possible terror act.

The women were Portuguese staff members at the centre, Ismaili community leader Narzim Ahmad told Portuguese TV channel SIC.