A mass stabbing in Reading on Saturday that killed three people and left more injured was now being treated as a “terrorism incident”, police said on Sunday.
The announcement from Counter Terrorism Policing South-East (CTPSE) came after Thames Valley Police, the local force for the Reading area, had initially said the attack was not being treated as terrorism.
Police said they arrested a 25-year-old man at the scene of the attack on Saturday evening. Although the Financial Times has not been able to independently confirm the identity of the suspected attacker, multiple news organisations named him as Khairi Saadallah, a man of Libyan origin.