Terror attack in SE London

[grd]

A man has been killed in a machete attack and his two assailants shot by police in Woolwich, south-east London.

 

The government is reported to be treating the assault as a suspected terrorist incident and the prime minister said it was "truly shocking".

 

Home Secretary Theresa May has summoned a meeting of the government's emergency response committee Cobra.

 

Local MP Nick Raynsford said the dead man was a soldier at Woolwich barracks but this has not been confirmed.

 

"They dragged him from the pavement and dumped his body in the middle of the road and left his body there”

 

Mrs May said she had been briefed by the director general of Security Service MI5, Andrew Parker, and Metropolitan Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe on the "sickening and barbaric" attack.

 

"It has been confirmed to me that a man has been brutally murdered," she said. "Two other men were shot by armed police and they are currently receiving treatment for their injuries."

 

One witness, identified only as James, said two men had attacked another man, aged about 20, who was wearing a T-shirt of military charity Help for Heroes.

 

"These two guys were crazed. They were just animals. They dragged him from the pavement and dumped his body in the middle of the road and left his body there," he told LBC radio.

 

He said after the "horrendous" attack, the two men, who were also in their 20s, stood around, waving knives and a gun, and asked people to take pictures of them "as if they wanted to be on TV or something".

 

"They were oblivious to anything, they were more worried about having their photo taken, running up and down the road," he said.

 

 

The incident took place before many eyewitnesses

Thomas, a witness who contacted the BBC, said: "I got there minutes after it happened because you could hear gunshots from Woolwich High Street.

 

"Basically two men carried out an axe attack on a young army cadet walking along the street, by the looks of things the police responded and then shot them in front of the public, at the same time I couldn't really tell if the cadet was fatally or not hurt as police were crowded around him."

 

Downing Street said Prime Minister David Cameron, who was planning to stay in Paris overnight after meeting the French president, would be returning to the UK tonight.

 

Whitehall sources have told the BBC it is "a fair supposition" that the incident was a terrorist incident but police have not commented publicly on the suggestion.

 

BBC political editor Nick Robinson said the police view is that the attack may have been filmed and footage may exist.

 

According to senior Whitehall sources the people carrying out the attack were heard to say Allahu Akbar [God is Great], said our political editor.

 

On Twitter, the Mayor of London Boris Johnson described the attack as a "sickening deluded and unforgivable act of violence".

 

School lock-down

Mr Raynsford, the Woolwich and Greenwich MP, said he had spoken to local police and understood a number of weapons had been seized at the scene including a gun, knives, and a machete.

 

Scotland Yard said the initial attack happened in John Wilson Street, the A205, at 14:20 BST.

 

Metropolitan Police Commander Simon Letchford said the two attackers were then shot by armed officers.

 

He said: "Police were called to reports of an assault... where one man was being assaulted by two other men. A number of weapons were reportedly being used in the attack, and this included reports of a firearm.

 

 

Head teacher David Dixon describes seeing a body in the street and hearing gunshots

"Officers including local Greenwich officers arrived at the scene, and shortly after firearms officers arrived on the scene.

 

"On their arrival at the scene they found a man, who was later pronounced dead....

 

"Two men, who we believe from early reports to have been carrying weapons, were shot by police. They have both been taken to separate London hospitals. They are receiving treatment for their injuries.

 

"I can understand that this incident will cause community concerns and I would like to reiterate that we are investigating the circumstances."

 

Meanwhile, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) confirmed it had been informed.

 

In a statement, the IPCC said: "Investigators have been deployed to the scene and to the post-incident process."

 

London Ambulance Service confirmed one man had been found dead at the scene.

 

It said two men had been taken to hospital - one by air ambulance - and one of them was a serious condition.

 

David Dixon, a local head teacher, told the BBC News Channel he walked out of the school gates and saw a body lying in the road a short distance away.

 

He then heard gunshots and instructed staff to lock all the gates of his school.

 

The air ambulance landed in the playground and most of the children have now gone home, he said.

 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22631274

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22630304

 

ITV are showing footage of one of the attackers covered in blood with a cleaver and knife in his hand apologising that women had to see the attack.

http://www.itv.com/news/uk/

 

 

 

TL;DR

Two blokes beheaded a guy in the street in Sout East London, in front of a primary school and asked passers by to take their picture. All in the name of 'God'.

 

Fucking nut bags.

[Aumstarsbcf]

Damnnn , nice coat.

[Inappropriate_Responder]

yeah, really nice coat.

 

can anyone ID it?

[Harold8b]

eyewitnesses reported that it seemed to be a primark jacket, but mainstream media have not yet confirmed. still developing.

[RIPS]

did he use a mil spec knife?

[RIPS]

Stop dat

Start dat

Get dat, wah

Been der done dat had dat, wah

He's got a Nokia, take dat, wah

Rude mouth, loud mouth watch dat, wah

Pretty girl, buff girl

Doggy, dat, wah

Dizzee Rascal's on da format, wah

Bad manners get a backslap, wah

I call da shots like top cat, wah

Track and stack whores done dat, wah

Come a rude boy come prove dat, wah

Boy in da corner, I'm dat, wah

Loose school lyrical bow-cat, wah

Best friend, sole mate, wats dat, wah

Girlfriend, wifey done dat! , wah

You can't know me, know dat! wah

Dedication to show dat! wah

[MedicineCabinet]

ban all plastic utensils - they are dangerous & shit

[RIPS]

[RIPS]

[eviltrailer77]

If we ban knives then only outlaws will have knives

[RIPS]

nail clippers will still be allowed

[MedicineCabinet]

i just think all acute angles should be registered, thats all

 

for the children

[RIPS]

[Realism]

You guys are idiots, it wasn't a fully automatic knife, it just looked like what the general public expects one to look like.

[CALIgula]

Home Secretary Theresa May has summoned a meeting of the government's emergency response committee Cobra.

 

Cobra

 

 

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[Inappropriate_Responder]

 

Cobra

 

 

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fixed

[RIPS]

and i thought that uk was a peacful unarmed country

[CALIgula]

fixed

 

 

touche:)

[sexcauldron]

That guy looks too black to be arab.

[ms.seyer]

He looks too urban to be celebrating allah.

[eviltrailer77]

OI! Allah hu akbar ya cunts!

[Guest]

Anyone else think 'terrorism' gets thrown around too much?

 

Would this be a terrorist attack of he was screaming about jesus

A couple wackos murdered some poor fucker...

 

 

I guess we'll see what develops .

[CALIgula]

^i was actually just thinking that the word terrorism gets thrown around way too much now.

 

but then when you look at the definition of terror:

 

Terror, from French terreur, from Latin terror meaning "great fear", a noun derived from the Latin verb terrere meaning "to frighten",[1]

 

 

it kind of makes sense...cause we fear them when they do something like cut a head off....but then again so do the drug cartels (zeta)..but we dont really call them terrorists...i guess its not terrorism if its not happening to us per se.

[grd]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZzG_w1kyNg

 

Video footage of the guy chatting to a passer-by.

 

I'm not going to argue semantics because it's been don'e to death in crossfire but the guy holding the cleaver said they'd done it because they want us to remove our governments from their lands'. I dunno, people are crazy.

 

COBRA though! I have an image of casual Dave and Boris the buffoon at number 10, practising Karate Kid style crane kicks while the rest of them look on bewildered but clapping in approval.

[CALIgula]

but clapping

 

 

 

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[Inappropriate_Responder]

but clapping

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[massgraff]

They need to banh mi.

[Brickos]

 

Balls os steel

[CALIgula]

pork banh mi for the win. 2 #5's with a pineapple boba drink please.

 

 

yeah, that lady had balls of steel trying to distract the 2nd guy...i wouldnt have tried it.

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