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British police say Reading stabbing attack treated as terrorist act

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14:53 - 21/06/2020 Sunday
Update: 14:54 - 21/06/2020 Sunday
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Police officers stand behind the cordon at the scene of multiple stabbings in Reading, Britain, June 21, 2020
Police officers stand behind the cordon at the scene of multiple stabbings in Reading, Britain, June 21, 2020

British police on Sunday said that a stabbing attack in a southern English town that left three people dead and another three injured was being treated as a terrorist attack but that there was no intelligence on any further attacks.

"This was an atrocity," Britain's top counter-terrorism officer, Neil Basu, said, adding that unarmed police officers had tackled the attacker.

Basu said that counter-terrorism police are now leading the investigation and that the attack is not linked to the Black Lives Matter protest in the same park in Reading a few hours before Saturday's attack.

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