The shooting came just over two months after a convicted terrorist on early release from prison was shot dead by police on London Bridge after he stabbed two people to death. London
An eye-witness described seeing a man “with a machete and silver canisters on his chest” fleeing from police before they opened fire.
The Metropolitan Police said the man in Sunday’s incident died at around 2:00 pm on Streatham High Road, a busy thoroughfare lined with shops in a residential neighbourhood. London Mayor Sadiq Khan added: “Terrorists seek to divide us and to destroy our way of life — here in London we will never let them succeed.”AFP reporters at the scene said the high street was blocked off with police tape, with buses backed up outside the cordon, as uniformed police officers kept the public away.The Met said one of the injured people was “at a hospital in a life-threatening condition. We are in the process of informing their family”.
“We can confirm that the man shot by police at around 2:00 pm today in #Streatham High Road has been pronounced dead.” They then abruptly moved away, urging onlookers to move back, as other emergency vehicles arrived at the scene.
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