British police say they are investigating an unprovoked knife attack in an east London Tube station Saturday, which left a man with serious injuries, as a terrorist incident.
Police had been dispatched to the station after receiving emergency calls reporting that a man had stabbed people and was threatening others, police said. The man threatened officers as they tried to reason with him, a statement said.
Police are looking into reports that the suspect yelled, "This is for Syria," during the attack, said Chioma Dijeh, a spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Police.
In the wake of the stabbing, footage circulated widely on social media showing scenes from the bloody attack and its chaotic aftermath.
They show police confronting a man in the ticket area of the station, who is brandishing an object in his hand. The police yell: "Drop it! Right now!"
Police rate the incident as a terrorist act
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