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Man shouts 'I want to kill a Muslim' in London assault

Published: 13 Dec 2016 - 11:37 am | Last Updated: 16 Nov 2021 - 05:26 pm
A man stabbed a passenger on a train at a south London station. (Picture courtesy:Twitter).

A man stabbed a passenger on a train at a south London station. (Picture courtesy:Twitter).

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LONDON: A man was shouting "I want to kill Muslims" as he stabbed another man at a London railway station, reported local media citing various witnesses. 

The suspected aggressor was arrested at Forest Hill railway station in south-east London on Monday, . 

According to the witnesses cited by the Sky News website, the man had scanned through the seats at the tube station shouting: "I'm going to kill me a Muslim, I'm going to kill me a Muslim."

One of the witnesses Met-Kastrati wrote on Twitter: “A massacre in #foresthill station a man shouting who is Muslim I want to kill a muslim stabs several times a Muslim passenger, no reason.”

“The attacker shouted 'Who is Muslim, I want to kill a Muslim' and approached the guy sitting with his wife on the first carriage," the tweet read. 

The attacker also chased other passengers outside the station with a knife, according to the witnesses. 

In a statement after the incident British Transport Police (BTP) said one person had indeed been arrested.
"But at this time, we are not treating it as terrorism-related,” the statement read.