LONDON — Metropolitan Police say they have arrested a 45-year-old man in connection with a stabbing attack that injured two Jewish people in London, which they called a “terrorist incident.”
“A 45-year-old man, who is a British national, born in Somalia, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder,” Metropolitan Police said in a statement. “He was initially taken to hospital but has since been discharged and has been taken to a London police station where he remains in police custody.”
Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor told reporters that counterterrorism officers are investigating and working to establish “whether this attack was deliberately targeting the Jewish community in London,” while Commissioner Mark Rowley called it an “attack on British Jews.”
Britain’s prime minister earlier described the incident in the North London suburb of Golders Green as an “antisemitic attack.” The neighborhood, which has a large Jewish population, has been the scene of a number of antisemitic incidents in recent weeks.
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