Streatham shooting – Boris Johnson thanks emergency services after man shot and 2 injured in terror attack
BORIS Johnson has thanked the emergency services after a man was shot and two injured this afternoon in a terror-related attack. The PM said his thoughts were with those wounded and affected by the incident. He tweeted: “Thank you to all emergency services responding to the incident in Streatham, which the police have now declared […]
BORIS Johnson has thanked the emergency services after a man was shot and two injured this afternoon in a terror-related attack.
The PM said his thoughts were with those wounded and affected by the incident.
He tweeted: “Thank you to all emergency services responding to the incident in Streatham, which the police have now declared as terrorism-related. My thoughts are with the injured and all those affected.”
A man was shot by armed police on Streatham High Street this afternoon – and several are thought to have been stabbed.
Frantic witnesses said they heard gunshots and saw the man lying on the pavement near shops.
Police scrambled to the busy south London street just after 2pm this afternoon, with a helicopter arriving shortly afterwards.
Cops shouted for people to “get back” as they cleared the area of shoppers and bystanders.
Images circulating online show an armed police officer standing next to a black BMW stopped in the middle of the street.
He appears to be pointing a gun at a man lying on the floor outside a Boots – with a knife discarded nearby.
And in another picture of the scene a number of injured people being treated on the pavement can be seen behind a cop moving bystanders away.
A witness, Dave Chawner, posted: “I had to stay with someone who’d just been #stabbed in #Streatham for 30 minutes before a single ambulance arrived. I hope he made it.”
Ambulances reportedly raced to the scene and are said to be treating several patients.
A London Ambulance Service spokesman said: “We have a number of resources attending an incident in Streatham High Road.”
Emma Taylor, 31, from Streatham Hill, told the Sun Online: “I was walking up the high street after going for brunch with some friends and we saw a woman screaming outside a small hardware shop next to Iceland.
“As we approached her she was in serious distress and she shouted ‘he’s just grabbed a knife from my shop and stabbed a lady'”.
“She stopped us from going any further and that’s when we saw the woman, just five metres in front us, being attended to by paramedics.
“She kept trying to get up, she was in pure shock. Before we saw all this, I remember unmarked police cars whizzing past us.
“There was armed police everywhere – it was like something out of a film.”
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Lambeth MPS tweeted “officers are dealing with an incident in Streatham”.
They added “we will share information as we have it”.
A Metropolitan Police statement said: “A man has been shot by armed officers in #Streatham. At this stage it is believed a number of people have been stabbed.
“The circumstances are being assessed; the incident has been declared as terrorist-related.”