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British police closed the perimeter of #London's central mosque
2019-03-29
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Manhunt for knife murderer continues after police searched central London mosque in bid to find murderer who fled after stabbing victim 'in his 20s' on the street

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news
  • Metropolitan police were called to scene in Westminster, London, at 6.15pm

  • Stabbing took place near London Central Mosque but was not terror-related: victim subsequently died in hospiral

  • Photos from the scene show police cordon near mosque where suspects fled

  • Cordon was moved around 11.30pm - more than five hours after fatal attack
Posted by:Fred

#4  Update from the Daily Mail link above as of 7:55 a.m. EDT:

Two knifemen stabbed a man to death then ran into a mosque and 'washed their hands and faces' to blend in with worshippers, it emerged today.

Witnesses in the mosque have said the assailants pretended to be members of the congregation arriving for prayers, but then changed clothes in a toilet and disappeared.

Police have said the incident is not terror-related and the killers are not linked to the mosque.

The victim, who was named locally as 'Zahir', is thought to have lived in a nearby estate.

A security guard at the mosque said the men, who were both white with long hair, washed their faces and feet to appear as if they were arriving for prayers.

He told The Evening Standard: 'We saw in the camera them changing clothes in the toilet area, one of them had a backpack and one of them had a side bag.

'They change from hoodies into shirts and trousers and throw the other clothes on the floor. The police have those.'

Police have not arrested any one over the attack, but raided flats in a nearby buildings today as the hunt the killers.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-03-29 15:20  

#3  A pigsticking Paddy, one Sullivan,
While pulling a runner in Marylebone,
Espied Regent's Park,
All inviting and dark:
"Sure, I'll duck in that Mosque and turn Taliban!"
Posted by: Hupolurt de Medici9773   2019-03-29 14:38  

#2  Wonder what type of person and mosque a person would flee into a and know they would be safe...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-03-29 08:12  

#1  Stabbing took place near London Central Mosque but was not terror-related

Given enough mosques and given enough knife crime, they could easily be associated randomly.
Posted by: SteveS   2019-03-29 06:55  

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