Knife attack could be terror incident: Police

“We are treating this as a terrorist incident,” Richard Walton, who leads the London police’s Counter Terrorism Command, said in a statement. Police were called Saturday evening to reports of a number of people stabbed at the station and a man threatening other people with a knife. One man was seriously injured and two sustained minor injuries, police said.

The Leytonstone incident will draw parallels with the May 2013 murder of British army soldier Lee Rigby, who was hacked to death by two Muslim converts. Britain is on its second-highest alert level of “severe”, mainly due to the threat posed by Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq who are encouraging supporters to attack the West. 

After Islamic State militants claimed responsibility for the attacks on Paris last month that killed 130 people, British Prime Minister David Cameron won approval from lawmakers on Wednesday to bomb the Islamist group in Syria. British warplanes first bombed oil fields controlled by Islamic State on Thursday.