A WOMAN in her 60s has been killed and five others injured in a bloody central London knife attack that police believe may be terror-related.
Witnesses described victims “screaming and covered in blood” following the rampage in which the woman – believed to be a Spanish speaker enjoying a hen do – was brutally knifed around 10.30pm last night.
A 19-year-old man was arrested at the scene after being tasered by police in Russell Square – just yards from where the 7/7 attacks bus bomb detonated in 2005.
Four women and one man were also injured in the horrific attack in Russell Square.
One witness described seeing another man ‘flee from the scene on a motorbike’ as police confirmed mental health was a likely factor.
They said: “I heard a scream, and then we went to the park and I saw a girl lying on the floor with blood coming from her back. Another girl had blood on her arm.
“They all spoke Spanish so I guess they were a group. I only saw the victim and the girl with the arm stabbed from that group.
“I just saw blood just next to her. She was lying on the floor with a friend hugging her.”
Anti-terror chief Mark Rowley, a Met Police Assistant Commissioner, said “mental health was a significant factor” in the attack but that “terrorism was still a line of enquiry”.
Speaking outside Scotland Yard, Commander Rowley said: “Police were called just after 10.30pm last night to reports of a man, armed with a knife, assaulting people in Russell Square, Camden.
“Armed officers arrived at the scene within five minutes, they discharged the Taser whilst confronting and arresting the suspect.
“Six people have been injured, including the one woman who sadly died at the scene, and the others have received various injuries.”
He added :“Early indications suggest that mental health is a significant factor in this case and that is one major line of inquiry.
“But of course at this stage we should keep an open mind regarding motive and, consequently, terrorism as a motivation remains but one line of enquiry for us to explore.”
The female victim, in her 60s, was treated at the scene but was pronounced dead not long after.
Police have said that it is “inappropriate at this time to give any more personal details about her”.
Lauren Britty, whose brother allegedly witnessed the attack, claimed on Twitter that the woman may have been part of a hen party.
Another witness has claimed that the women involved were with two men and that they were all speaking Spanish.
The condition of the other people injured in the incident is not yet known – nor is the nature of their injuries.
A receptionist at the nearby Imperial Hotel in Russell Square said: “We don’t know what’s going on.
“The police have been in the square since about 10.30pm.”
Additional police units have been deployed to the area.
Twenty six people were killed when Germaine Lindsay, 19, detonated a suicide bomb on a Piccadilly line Tube as it moved between King’s Cross station and Russell Square in July 2007.
Yesterday’s attack came on the same day that the Met announced it was to put more armed officers on public patrol as part of anti-terrorism plans.
On Sunday Metropolitan Police chief Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe warned that a terror attack in the UK was a case of “when, not if”.
Counter-terror police are also probing the attempted abduction of a serviceman at knifepoint from a road near RAF Marham in Norfolk on July 20.

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