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Three people were stabbed yesterday in a random, unprovoked attack in an east London Tube station. The Metropolitan Police said that they are investigating the knife attack as a "terrorist incident." There were reports that the assailant yelled "This is for Syria" during his attack. The assailant, 29, was subdued with a stun gun and arrested on suspicion of attempted murder at 7:14 p.m. Saturday in the suburb of Leytonstone, London's Metropolitan Police said. Police had been dispatched to the station after receiving emergency calls reporting that a man had stabbed people and was threatening others, police said. The man...

Trending Syria airstrikes ISIS Terrorism Oscar Pistorius Walking With The Wounded Technology Money Travel Fashion Mums Home News UK News British Transport Police Leytonstone stabbing: Police warn more attacks 'highly likely' as officers treat Tube horror as 'terrorist incident' 22:41, 5 Dec 2015 Updated 23:27, 5 Dec 2015 By Alex Wellman WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT: Officers call on people to be vigilant in the face of possible terrorist atrocities following London Underground attack Shares Play 0:00 / 0:28 Fullscreen Mute Share Police have warned that a terror attack is "highly likely" to hit the UK after revealing they are treating a...

<p>A man stabbed three people at an east London tube station Saturday before police subdued him with a stun gun and made an arrest, London's Metropolitan Police said.</p> <p>Police said they were treating the stabbing at Leytonstone station as a terrorist incident.</p>

An knifeman slashed a man's throat at a busy London tube station shouting 'this is for Syria' before being Tasered by the police. The suspect attacked the man at Leytonstone underground station shortly after 7pm. Eyewitnesses claimed the man shouted 'this is for Syria' and 'all of your blood will be spilled' during the terrifying attack.

A 'MACHETE-WIELDING' man has slashed a man's throat at a station in London as he shouted "this is for Syria", witnesses claim. A man was stabbed in the ticket hall at Leytonstone station this evening by another man who witnesses say shouted "This is for Syria" as he slashed his throat. Another three are thought to have been injured. The Met Police said its counter-terrorism command unit is now investigating the incident.

COPS fear that 25 British-born Muslims are plotting to bomb Western airliners. The fanatics, in five groups, are now training at secret terror camps in Yemen. It was there London-educated Umar Abdulmutallab, 23, prepared for his Christmas Day bid to blow up a US jet. The British extremists in Yemen are in their early 20s and from Bradford, Luton and Leytonstone, East London. They are due to return to the UK early in 2010 and will then await internet instructions from al-Qaeda on when to strike. A Scotland Yard source said: "The great fear is Abdulmutallab is the first of...