LONDON, June 21 — British police today said that a stabbing attack in a southern English town that left three people dead and another three injured was being treated as a terrorist attack but that there was no intelligence on any further attacks. “This was an atrocity,” Britain’s top...
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A police officer puts a traffic cone on a street following multiple stabbings reported in Reading, Britain June 21, 2020. — Reuters pic LONDON, June 21 — British police today said that a stabbing attack in a southern English town that left three people dead and another three injured was being treated as a terrorist attack but that there was no intelligence on any further attacks.
“This was an atrocity,” Britain’s top counter-terrorism officer, Neil Basu, said, adding that unarmed police officers had tackled the attacker. Basu said that counter-terrorism police are now leading the investigation and that the attack is not linked to the Black Lives Matter protest in the same park in Reading a few hours before yesterday’s attack. — Reuters
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