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.
Police said they were treating the stabbing at Leytonstone station as a terrorist incident.
One man sustained serious injuries not considered to be life-threatening, police said. Two others suffered minor injuries.
The suspect was taken to a London police station.
Police said they were called just after 7 p.m. to reports of a number of people stabbed at the station and a man threatening others with a knife.
Commander Richard Walton, who leads the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command, said: “We are treating this as a terrorist incident.”
“I would urge the public to remain calm, but alert and vigilant. The threat from terrorism remains at severe, which means that a terrorist attack is highly likely.”
UK faces terrorist threat
Police released no information about the man’s identity or possible motive, but the United Kingdom is facing stepped-up threats from ISIS — especially after British fighter planes began flying sorties against ISIS targets in Syria this week.
Intelligence obtained by European security agencies indicates ISIS is aiming to attack the United Kingdom as a follow-up to its attacks in Paris last month, a senior European counterterrorism official told CNN.
The Tube, also called the London Underground, is the city’s subway system. It has 270 stations on 11 lines that stretch a total of 250 miles.
In 2005, suicide bombers attacked three Underground trains and a double-decker busin a coordinated attack that left 52 people dead and more than 770 wounded. A British al Qaeda operative planned the bombings, according to internal al Qaeda documents that surfaced in 2012.
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