UK: Man charged in London Underground knife attack

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UK: Man charged in London Underground knife attack

LONDON (AA) – A man has been charged with attempted murder following a knife attack that left three people injured in east London tube station last Saturday, U.K.’s Metropolitan Police said Monday.

According to police, a 29-year-old man from east London will appear at the magistrates’ court later on Monday.

A suspect in the case, Muhaydin Mire, was tasered and arrested Saturday night after a series of stabbings at Leytonstone underground station in London.

Mire’s attack left one person with serious wounds and police had said in an immediate statement following the incident that they were treating the incident as a “terrorist incident”.

 

Author: Ahmet Gürhan Kartal
[Photo: Police officers and crime scene investigators investigate a crime scene at Leytonstone tube station in east London, England, on December 05, 2015 after a man was seriously injured in a knife attack and it is treated as a terror attack because the attacker reportedly shouted “This is for Syria” during the attack. Photographer: Tolga Akmen]