Posted on 05/22/2013 9:09:56 AM PDT by kristinn
A man wearing a Help For Heroes T-shirt has reportedly been hacked to death by two machete-wielding assailants in broad daylight in south-east London.
The two knifemen are understood to have been shot by armed police, although Scotland Yard will still only confirm officers had been called to reports of ‘an assault’ on John Wilson Street at around 2.20pm.
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Eyewitness James Heneghan told LBC 97.3 he and his wife had witnessed two men hacking at a third with two large kitchen knives.
‘We saw the whole incident,’ he said fighting back tears. ‘They were hacking at this poor guy, hacking him, chopping him.’
Mr Heneghan claimed one of the suspects had pointed a gun at his wife before they jumped back into his car and called the police.
He went on to claim that after the men had attacked the victim they dragged him into the middle of the street ‘like a piece of meat’.
A group of women then rushed to the victim to shield him from further attacks, Mr Heneghan continued, as the two knifemen stopped a passing bus and encouraged passengers to take pictures of them while they posed with their knives.
Woolwich and Greenwich MP Nick Raynsford said that he understood the victim to be a serving soldier from Woolwich Barracks.
‘I’ll be talking to everyone who is involved, we will be trying to do everything possible to try and ensure calm in the area. People will be very, very shocked,’ he told BBC Radio 5 Live.
‘We think a serving soldier was the victim. We don’t know the circumstances surrounding the incident.
‘We do know a number of weapons have been seized. They include a gun, various knives, and a machete, apparently.
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From the article:
“the two knifemen stopped a passing bus and encouraged passengers to take pictures of them while they posed with their knives.”
WOW.
Sky sources: attached was likely a politically motivated islamist terrorist attack.
Sky News is actually identifying them as Islamic? WOW. So many American “news” sources would only refer to them as “youths” or “disadvantaged locals”
Probably muzzies.
More likely Cornish, or Welsh.
Yeah is a bit surprising!
BBC Confirm...2 men who beheaded soldier shouted Allah Akbar.
The term “black” is often used also for dark brown folks like Pakistanis in the UK.
Self-radicalized, no doubt.
How are those Twitter comments reposted by the Guardian even considered English?
Yes, I know, I was born in the UK....:^)
My post #30 updates it to Somalians, and Live Leak also says a beheading.
People carrying out the attack were of Muslim appearance and cries of God is Great or Allahu Akbar were heard, said our political editor.
‘Sadly one patient, a man, was dead at the scene.’
What?!? whaddya mean ‘sadly’?
This is the hacker! It is dead! Good!
Not a word about the kind of creature that did this! Obviously the press has something to hide. They don’t want to alarm the brits and get them thinking that there are massive hordes of formerly-bearded savages who would gladly chop their heads off.
BBC political editor Nick Robinson said the police view is that the the attack may have been filmed and footage may exist.
People carrying out the attack were of Muslim appearance and cries of God is Great or Allahu Akbar were heard, said our political editor.
Oops. Just saw we posted the same thing.
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