Cameron said at a press conference with French President
Francoise Hollande that there were "strong indications that it is a
terrorist incident."
Armed police who responded to incident have also reportedly shot and injured two people, one of them seriously.
Witnesses said a man was assaulted on John Wilson Street in Woolwich by two men who were then shot by armed police officers.
Officers were called to the area at around 2:20 pm and the surrounding area has been cordoned off by police.
Witnesses said the dead man was attacked with a machete and then dumped on the street.
The incident happened next to Woolwhich barracks but the
Ministry of Defense has not yet confirmed whether the dead man was
in fact a soldier.
One witness told LBC radio that the two men “were hacking at this guy literally. They were hacking at him, chopping him, cutting him, like he was a piece of meat. They were just animals. They dragged him from the pavement and dumped his body in the middle of the road.”
A spokesman from Scotland Yard said, “Officers have responded to an incident in John Wilson Street at 2:20 pm today. We believe at this stage that officers were called to reports of an assault."
The London Air Ambulance also confirmed that a doctor and a paramedic were sent to the scene at 14:27 pm.
ITV has said it has footage of one of the attackers who says “We swear by almighty Allah, we will never stop fighting you”.
Prime Minster David Cameron confirmed that he had asked the Home Secretary Theresa May to chair a meeting of Cobra, the government’s emergency committee and that she had requested updates from MI5 and the Metropolitan Police and the government were treating the incident as suspected terrorist attack.
The Defense Secretary Phillip Hammond and the Mayor of London Boris Johnson have also arrived at the Cobra meeting.
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Armed police who responded to incident have also reportedly shot and injured two people, one of them seriously.
Witnesses said a man was assaulted on John Wilson Street in Woolwich by two men who were then shot by armed police officers.
Officers were called to the area at around 2:20 pm and the surrounding area has been cordoned off by police.
Witnesses said the dead man was attacked with a machete and then dumped on the street.
Police
officers guard a cordon set up around a crime scene where one man was
killed was killed in Woolwich, southeast London May 22, 2013 (Reuters /
Stefan Wermuth)
One witness told LBC radio that the two men “were hacking at this guy literally. They were hacking at him, chopping him, cutting him, like he was a piece of meat. They were just animals. They dragged him from the pavement and dumped his body in the middle of the road.”
A spokesman from Scotland Yard said, “Officers have responded to an incident in John Wilson Street at 2:20 pm today. We believe at this stage that officers were called to reports of an assault."
The London Air Ambulance also confirmed that a doctor and a paramedic were sent to the scene at 14:27 pm.
ITV has said it has footage of one of the attackers who says “We swear by almighty Allah, we will never stop fighting you”.
Prime Minster David Cameron confirmed that he had asked the Home Secretary Theresa May to chair a meeting of Cobra, the government’s emergency committee and that she had requested updates from MI5 and the Metropolitan Police and the government were treating the incident as suspected terrorist attack.
The Defense Secretary Phillip Hammond and the Mayor of London Boris Johnson have also arrived at the Cobra meeting.
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police forensics investigator (C) approaches a crime scene where one
man was killed in Woolwich, southeast London May 22, 2013 (Reuters /
Stefan Wermuth)
Police
officers man a cordoned off area in Woolwich, east London, on May 22,
2013, following an incident in which a man was killed and two others
seriously injured (AFP Photo / Leon Neal)
Flowers lie near a crime scene where one man was killed in Woolwich, southeast London May 22, 2013 (Reuters / Stefan Wermuth)
A
police forensics officer investigates a crime scene where one man was
killed in Woolwich, southeast London May 22, 2013 (Reuters / Stefan
Wermuth)
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