Two people stabbed in central London and injured in a similar incident in the Netherlands

LONDON (Reuters) - Two people were killed and another injured in a stabbing near the London Bridge area, police said on Friday.

London police chief Cressida Dick said three people were also injured in the attack, which recalled the terrorist attack in the same area two years ago, which killed eight people and wounded 48 others.

Police chief Neil Basu told reporters the authorities believed the suspect was wearing fake explosives.

Pictures posted on the Internet showed a person stabbing several bystanders with a knife before being shot dead by police.

The London Bridge was closed after the incident as people were evacuated from buses and a white truck blocked the road, and forensic experts arrived at the site.

Both the Conservatives and the Labor Party announced the suspension of their campaigns in light of security developments in the country.

urgent meeting
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson cut short his visit to his constituency in northwest London to return to his office in Downing Street, where he later called for an emergency meeting of the crisis cell called "Cobra."

The London Bridge attack took place just days before a NATO summit in the British capital on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The attack coincided with the so-called "Black Friday," the day before Thanksgiving for Christians, and the streets are packed with shoppers more than any other day of the year.

The Hague Accident
Three hours after the London incident, Dutch police said at least three people were injured in a stabbing incident in the western city of The Hague, adding that the incident took place on the main shopping street Hudson Bay.

She said she was looking for a person of African descent between the ages of 45 and 50, who is suspected of being the culprit. Dutch national television station NOS said the attack did not appear to be a terrorist act.

Dutch media showed people gathering behind a police cordon, and helicopters hovered overhead with several ambulances.

Bag and shell
In Paris, security services found a Paris North train station called "Paris Nour" on a bag abandoned by its holder and a tank shell, which caused panic at the station, which forced the security services to evacuate.

The evacuation lasted no more than 40 minutes, the National Railway Company said in a statement to the French newspaper Le Figaro, adding that the warning of a suspicious object was the second or third of the kind on Friday.

It is noteworthy that the train station North Paris is a major station from which all trains heading to the French north, and to the neighboring countries of the North, such as Britain, Belgium and the Netherlands.