Police were called to Marsham Street, where the Home Office building is located, on Thursday afternoon “following a report of a man with a knife at the location,” London’s Metropolitan Police said in a statement.
They attended to one man with knife injuries and arrested another “on suspicion of grievous bodily harm” who was taken into custody.
Images from the scene showed a bloodied man being led away by police. A cordon was set up around the building in the wake of the attack.
Eyewitness Gareth Milner, who was sat on a wall outside the Home Office eating lunch, told CNN he saw “a number of armed police” arrive on the scene and enter the building.
“Sometime later a gentleman was escorted out by paramedics with what looked like dressing pressed to his face, which looked quite bloodied, and his shirt was open, [I] could not tell if blood on body was from face,” he said.
Police told CNN the incident is not believed to be terrorism-related.
“All my thoughts are with the victim and their family following [a] horrific unprovoked knife attack on Marsham Street,” Patel, the Home Secretary, tweeted Thursday.
The Home Office has been at the forefront of tackling knife crime in the UK.
Source : Nbcnewyork
