Three people were killed in a knife attack on Saturday evening in a park in Reading, west London, on Saturday evening. The police do not keep the terrorist track for the moment, and this attack would have no link with the anti-racist demonstrations that took place during the day.

Three people were killed during a knife attack Saturday evening in a park in Reading, in the west of London, according to the police, which did not keep in the night from Saturday to Sunday the terrorist track. A 25-year-old man from the city was arrested at the scene for murder and taken into police custody, according to police from the Thames Valley. The attack also left three people seriously injured. Police and rescue workers responded after receiving calls saying that several people had been stabbed in Forbury Gardens at around 7 p.m. in the center of this town of 200,000, about 60 kilometers from the center of the British capital.

The terrorist track is not retained by the British police

"The facts are not currently considered to be of a terrorist nature", however, investigators "keep an open mind as to their motivation" and are working with the support of the anti-terrorist police, chief commissioner Ian Hunter said in a statement . A security perimeter has been set up to carry out on-site observations. Prime Minister Boris Johnson addressed his "thoughts to everyone affected by the appalling events in Reading" in a tweet thanking the emergency services. Interior Minister Priti Patel said she was "deeply concerned", also on Twitter. 

My thoughts are with all of those affected by the appalling incident in Reading and my thanks to the emergency services on the scene.

- Boris Johnson #StayAlert (@BorisJohnson) June 20, 2020

Witnesses quoted by the PA news agency said that a man had attacked several groups gathered in this park on this sunny evening. "The park was full, a lot of people were sitting for a drink with friends when a person arrived, suddenly shouted unintelligible words and went towards a group of ten people, trying to attack them with a knife" , told the British agency PA Lawrence Wort, witness of the scene.

 "He stabbed three of them, severely in the neck and under the arms, then he turned around and started running towards me, we turned around and we started running," said the coach. 20 year old sportsman. "When he realized that he could not catch us, he managed to reach a person on the back of the neck and when he saw that everyone started to run, he left the park," he said. -he tells.

"Nothing to do" with anti-racist protests

The police called on Internet users not to share the images of the scene which circulated on social networks, but rather to communicate them to the investigators. The incident occurred near the place where an anti-racist "Black Lives Matter" demonstration took place earlier today, but organizers and the police alike believe there is no connection.