Published time: May 22, 2013 18:17
Edited time: May 22, 2013 18:52
Edited time: May 22, 2013 18:52
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police forensics officer investigates a crime scene where one man was
killed in Woolwich, southeast London May 22, 2013 (Reuters / Stefan
Wermuth)
18:37 GMT: The suspect, a black male dressed in a grey hooded jacket and black brimless cap, apologized to people at the scene who witnessed the attack before going on to make several more political statements.
In the video obtained by ITV News, he can be heard saying in clear English without a foreign accent: "We must fight them as they fight us. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.”
"I apologize that women have had to witness this today, but in our land our women have to see the same. You people will never be safe. Remove your government, they don't care about you."
18:30 GMT: French President Hollande, who is speaking alongside Cameron at a joint press conference in Paris, said the man killed in the London attack is a British soldier.
Police
forensics officers investigate a crime scene where one man was killed
in Woolwich, southeast London May 22, 2013 (Reuters / Stefan Wermuth)
18:25 GMT: British Prime Minister David Cameron said the “barbaric attack” in London could be a terrorist incident, he said at a press conference in Paris after talks with French President Francois Hollande. Cameron characterized the attack as "appalling."
Cameron added: "We have had these sort of attacks before in our country, and we never buckle in the face of them."
18:20 GMT: Footage of a man carrying a meat cleaver with bloodstained hands at the scene of the attack has been broadcast on ITV News. The man made a several politically charged statements, telling the cameraman: "We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you."
18:17 GMT: British Prime Minister David Cameron has called an emergency meeting following the suspected terror attack in London.
18:15 GMT: A British government official speaking on condition of anonymity said that the details which had emerged so far pointed towards a “terrorist motivated attack.”
Police
officers man a cordoned off area in Woolwich, east London, on May 22,
2013, following an incident in which a man was killed and two others
seriously injured (AFP Photo / Leon Neal)
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