The Washington Post
LONDON — Britain's Thames Valley Police announced Sunday that a stabbing rampage that killed three people in a park in the town of Reading, west of London, is being investigated as a terrorist attack in cooperation with the counterterrorism police.
In addition to the three dead, "a number of people" needed hospital treatment, said Neil Basu, the assistant commissioner at New Scotland Yard.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson called the rampage "appalling."
A 25-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder soon after the attack. “From our enquiries so far, officers have found nothing to suggest that there was anyone else involved in this attack and presently we are not looking for anyone else in relation to this incident,” Basu said.
Neither Thames Valley Police nor Scotland Yard named the suspect, nor did police offer a motive for the attack. British media, citing unnamed security sources, reported that the suspect is from Libya. The Telegraph newspaper said he had arrived several years ago in Britain as a refugee of Libya’s civil war.
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