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WORLD NEWS Monday 22 June 2020
UK police: Park stabbing that killed 3 was a terror attack

By JILL LAWLESS and ilies and friends. #Reading-
ALASTAIR GRANT standsunited." The attack
Associated Press came hours after a Black
READING, England (AP) — Lives Matter demonstration
A stabbing rampage that at Forbury Gardens, but
killed three people as they police said there was no
sat in a British park on a connection between the
summer evening is being two events. Personal train-
considered a terrorist at- er Lawrence Wort said the
tack, police said Sunday. park was full of groups sit-
A 25-year-old man who is ting on the grass Saturday
believed to be the lone at- evening when "one lone
tacker was in custody, but person walked through,
officials said the motive for suddenly shouted some un-
the carnage was unclear. intelligible words and went
Authorities said they were around a large group of
not looking for any other around 10, trying to stab
suspects and they did not them." "He stabbed three
raise Britain's official ter- of them severely in the
rorism threat level from neck and under the arms,
"substantial." Three people and then turned and start-
were killed and three oth- ed running towards me,
ers seriously wounded in and we turned and started
the stabbing attack that Police officers collect flowers left at the Abbey gateway of Forbury Gardens following a multiple running," Wort said. Britain
came out of the blue Sat- stabbing attack which took place on Saturday, in Reading, England, Sunday June 21, 2020. has been hit by several ter-
urday in Forbury Gardens Associated Press ror attacks in recent years,
park in Reading, a town of both by people inspired
200,000 people 40 miles (64 armed officers detained ing an emergency worker. tack site. Overnight, heav- by the Islamic State group
kilometers) west of London. a 25-year-old local man The same man was also ily armed officers entered and by far-right extremists.
"Motivation for this hor- at the scene. Police said charged last year with as- an apartment about a mile Islamist-inspired attacks in-
rific act is far from certain," they did not believe there saulting a judge who had away, and a loud bang clude a suicide bombing at
said Neil Basu, Britain's top was any further danger sentenced him. was heard. Notes and an Ariana Grande concert
counterterrorism police of- to the public. Police have "If there are lessons that bunches of flowers had in Manchester that killed
ficer, as police forensics of- not identified the suspect, we need to learn" or legal been left Sunday by the 22 people in 2017 and two
ficers combed the park for but Britain's national news changes needed to pre- police tape in tribute to the deadly vehicle and knife
evidence. Chief Constable agency, Press Association, vent such attacks, "then we victims. One of the peo- attacks in London the same
John Campbell of Thames and other media outlets will learn those lessons and ple killed was identified as year. In several cases, at-
Valley Police said officers named him as Khairi Saa- we will not hesitate to take James Furlong, a teacher tackers have been known
were called to reports of dallah, a Libyan asylum- action where necessary," in the nearby English town to police. In November,
stabbings just before 7 p.m. seeker living in Reading. Johnson said. of Wokingham. "There are a man who had been re-
and arrived to find a "hor- A Reading man of that Police officers patrolled no words that anyone can leased after serving a pris-
rific" scene. He said a sus- name who is the same age cordons on the roads lead- say to express how horrible on sentence for a terrorism
pect was apprehended as the suspect was sen- ing to the park on Sunday, and senseless this was," one offense stabbed two peo-
within five minutes. Basu tenced to two months in and blue-and-white tents said. ""Our prayers are with ple to death at a justice
said "incredibly brave" un- prison last year for assault- were erected near the at- all the victims and their fam- conference in London. q

Dutch police arrest dozens after virus protest turns violent

THE HAGUE, Netherlands been pelted with rocks
(AP) — Dutch police arrest- and smoke bombs. There
ed scores of protesters and were no immediate re-
used a water cannon Sun- ports of injuries.
day after violence erupted It was unclear exactly how
around a demonstration in many people gathered
The Hague against mea- Sunday at the demon-
sures put in place by the stration that was initially
government to rein in the banned by The Hague’s
spread of the coronavirus. mayor last week. On Sun-
A peaceful protest turned day, the mayor gave per-
violent when dozens of mission for a brief protest,
what police said were because fewer people
soccer fans arrived and attended than had been
clashed with riot police predicted last week.
near the city’s central rail- The Hague municipality
way station. said in a statement that
Police used officers on the soccer fans and other
horseback and a water Protesters are voluntarily searched by police, during a demonstration targeting the government’s groups had descended on
cannon to disperse the handling of the coronavirus crisis, at Malieveld, the Hague, Netherlands, Sunday, June 21, 2020. the city from around the
crowd after police had Associated Press Netherlands.q