September 05, 2026 07:14 pm (IST)

Make this your homepage

Foreign

Hindutva influencer Swatantra Bhardwaj detained after viral assault clip; Chirag Paswan’s party files complaint for ‘falsely’ naming him | Bengaluru horror: Woman stripped, assaulted and filmed over unpaid loan interest; 4 arrested | West Bengal CM's big warning: Teacher suspended over tilak row, govt employee punished for PM Modi post | Tragedy on Kerala Highway: 8 Tamil Nadu students killed after car crashes into parked lorry | Influencer Swatantra Bhardwaj, accused of assaulting CJP protester's father, detained in UP | Yasin Malik’s double shock from jail: Announces divorce, refuses to defend himself in Sarla Bhat case | Sonia Gandhi’s memoir finds new publisher as HarperCollins steps in amid Penguin row | 1,000 RSS-backed schools in Bengal? Suvendu Adhikari sets one-year target | PM Modi hails Giorgia Meloni on becoming longest-serving postwar Italian PM | HarperCollins to publish Sonia Gandhi’s memoir amid Penguin row

Twitter video grab

Two hurt in stabbing incident in London, attacker shot dead

India Blooms News Service | @indiablooms | Feb 02, 2020, at 10:29 pm

London/IBNS: Describing the incident as 'terrorist-related', the police said its officials shot dead a man who stabbed two people in London on Sunday.

Police said two people were injured in the stabbing incident.

The police have not released the identities of the attacker and the victims of the incident.

We can confirm that the man shot by police at around 2pm today in #Streatham High Road has been pronounced dead
— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) February 2, 2020

" We can confirm that the man shot by police at around 2pm today in #Streatham High Road has been pronounced dead," Metropolitan Police tweeted.

We believe there are two injured victims. We await updates on their conditions.

The scene has been fully contained.

We will issue more information when possible.
— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) February 2, 2020

The police described the incident as 'terrorist-related'.

#INCIDENT 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. Please follow @metpoliceuk for updates
— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) February 2, 2020

"#INCIDENT 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. Please follow @metpoliceuk for updates," police tweeted earlier.

UK PM Boris Johnson thanked emergency services officials for their prompt actions.

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.
— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) February 2, 2020

" 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," the PM tweeted.

My statement on today's incident in #Streatham: pic.twitter.com/sDsJlVcyNq
— Sadiq Khan (@SadiqKhan) February 2, 2020

#London #LondonTerrorAttack #LondonTerrorism #LondonStabbing

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.