People woke up to the sound of shrieking and screaming shortly before 7am.
Horrified onlookers have given dramatic accounts of how a sword-wielding man attacked members of the public and police, leaving a 14-year-old boy dead.
He said: “Within two seconds after that she’s realised something isn’t right, started running and he’s pulled a samurai sword from the back of his trousers.Mr Fernando said he believed the boy was “dead on the spot” as the sword-wielding assailant struck him in the face. “It was arm’s length. It was honestly petrifying. I just ran down the road, I didn’t even look back to see if he was chasing me.”
The Metropolitan Police said two officers suffered “significant” wounds after responding to the scene, while two other members of the public also sustained injuries that were not life-threatening.Footage seen by the PA news agency shows the suspect chasing after an ambulance while holding the weapon as a body lies motionless on the ground.
“We were trying to hide but also at the same time taking video of him attacking the police, and of the body on the floor, so, yeah, we were very scared and we didn’t know what to do.”A resident of a nearby street looked out of his back window to see the suspect, dressed in a yellow hooded top, climbing over garden fences.The man, who asked not to be named, said: “It was like ‘stop where you are, put that down, put that down’ – that kind of thing.
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