Mass stabbing in central London leaves woman dead and six injured

[Gerald]

Police explore possibility of ‘terrorism’ after man arrested following the incident in Russell Square in the centre of the city

A woman has been killed and up to six people have been injured in a mass stabbing in the centre of London.

The Metropolitan Police have confirmed that at least six people were injured in the incident at Russell Square.

A statement said a woman was treated at the scene but was pronounced dead a short time later.

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What to say?

Note: Thursday 4 August 2016 01.56 BST

[Oberon]

Six minutes.

Six minutes from call to suspect tasered.

Bloody good work Met police, as far as containing and controlling the situation goes I don't think they could have done much better. Goes to show all the preparing that has been done after the recent attacks in Europe has paid off.

[eddie]

Glad they caught him! Feel sorry for the victims and their families.

[Feuer Frei!]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Goes to show all the preparing that has been done after the recent attacks in Europe has paid off.

Yea, just a shame that something serious has to happen for Governments to act, ie improve security of its citizens.

Kneejerk reaction.

Humanity and more to the point, governments are notorious for it.

[Oberon]

To be fair we have had a bit of an advantage over, say French or German security services, because of The Troubles, so a lot of the infrastructure and security network has been in place for a while and the general public, for the most part, are more accustomed to it.

[Betonov]

I'm worried how our force would respond since we never had a terror attack

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by Betonov

I'm worried how our force would respond since we never had a terror attack

Unconcealed carry of chili pods will prevent terror attacks, otherwise use a kukri. And i always thought the latter was a nepalese thing

Seriously, condolences to the victims' relatives and friends. And a good fast reaction, but to counter isolated lunatics in time, before such things happen will always be impossible.

[Fubar2Niner]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Six minutes.

Six minutes from call to suspect tasered.

Bloody good work Met police, as far as containing and controlling the situation goes I don't think they could have done much better. Goes to show all the preparing that has been done after the recent attacks in Europe has paid off.

Just seen this. Hear hear Oberon.

[Kazuaki Shimazaki II]

Originally Posted by Vendor

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...ad-and-injured

Good work by the police, condolences for the victims, but...

Again we have this overuse of the word "terrorism". Terrorism is the use of terror to achieve a political end, and there seems no reason to even suspect him of that.

What this guy did (in addition to murder and injury, of course) is what the Russians would have called "hooliganism" (gross disrespect for public order) rather than "terrorism".

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Kazuaki Shimazaki II

Good work by the police, condolences for the victims, but...

Again we have this overuse of the word "terrorism". Terrorism is the use of terror to achieve a political end, and there seems no reason to even suspect him of that.

What this guy did (in addition to murder and injury, of course) is what the Russians would have called "hooliganism" (gross disrespect for public order) rather than "terrorism".

Again we have this overuse of the word "terrorism".

Quite right terrorism in principle in many contexts has become a word used very often, and in some cases completely wrong.