A serving British soldier has been hacked to death by two Muslim men 200 yards from his barracks in Woolwich, south east London, this afternoon.

A dramatic video tonight emerged of a man with bloodied hands, carrying knives and ranting 'We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you.'

The man can be seen and heard talking to the camera. The video came as terrified eyewitnesses saw two men shot by police marksmen after the machete attack in Woolwich, south-east London.

The two men are thought to have waited around for 20 minutes until Metropolitan Police officers arrived and then tried to attack them - but were swiftly shot by armed policemen, including a woman.

They apparently shouted 'Allahu Akbar', which means 'God is great' in Arabic, and tried to film the attack, the BBC's political editor Nick Robinson said.


Shocking: This exclusive still from a video obtained by ITV News shows a man with bloodied hands and carrying knives speaking to a camera in Woolwich, south-east London. A victim lies in the road.


Statement: ITV News obtained footage of a man with bloodied hands and knives speaking to a camera


On the ground: Two men were shot by police marksmen after the machete attack in south-east London

Theresa May tonight called a meeting of the Government's emergency Cobra committee in response to the machete and knife attack on the man who was wearing a Help for Heroes t-shirt.

The Home Secretary said she had been briefed on the killing by the head of MI5 and police later confirmed they were treating the incident as a possible terror attack.

Meanwhile Prime Minister David Cameron cancelled a meeting with French President Francois Hollande to return to London. He said Britain has faced similar terror attacks before and added: ‘We will never buckle in the face of it.’

Before the dramatic video of the bloodied man was obtained by ITV News, eyewitnesses said the 'crazed' men in their 20s launched a ferocious attack and were 'hacking, chopping and cutting him.'

In footage released by ITV News, a man with bloodied hands carrying a knife and a machete addresses people holding a camera, where he appears to attempt to justify the incident.

Speaking to those recording the scene he says: 'I apologise that women had to witness this today, but in our land our women have to see the same.

'You people will never be safe. Remove your government, they don't care about you.'

In footage obtained by The Sun, he can also be heard saying: 'You think David Cameron is going to get caught in the street when we start busting our guns you think politicians are going to die?

'No it's going to be the average guy, like you, and your children. So get rid of them. Tell them to bring our troops back so you can all live in peace


Scene: One man died at the scene here in John Wilson Street, south east London this afternoon while two were seriously injured


Two men were rushed to hospital this afternoon while another man died after apparently being hacked to death in Woolwich


From above: This video grab from an ITV News broadcast shows an aerial view of the investigation scene


Investigations: A forensic tent is erected near the scene of the attack in Woolwich, south-east, London

Following his outburst, the man walks back towards where the victim is lying in the middle of the road. He then speaks to another man as they stand near to the victim.

Women are later seen bravely tending to the man lying. The footage appears to have been taken before any of the emergency services have arrived at the scene.

Later footage has also emerged from shortly after police fired at two men. One of the men can be seen lying in the road, while the second is laid on the pavement.

The footage taken after the shootings was reported to have been taken by a man who had been on a bus on his way to a job interview.

Mr Cameron said on Twitter that 'the killing in Woolwich is truly shocking - I have asked the Home Secretary to chair a Cobra meeting.'

A Buckingham Palace spokesman said: 'The Queen is of course concerned by the report of an attack in Woolwich earlier today. Her Majesty is being kept informed.'

The spokesman also confirmed the Queen will visit the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery at Woolwich barracks on May 31, which was planned before today's attack.


Probe: The incident is believed to have started after this car crashed. Fluid can be seen which has leaked from the car

See more and video: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2329089/Woolwich-attack-Two-men-hack-soldier-wearing-Help-Heroes-T-shirt-death-machetes-suspected-terror-atta

An eyewitness report on twitter:

The two black bredas run this white guy over over then hop out the car and start chopping mans head off with machete!!
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People were asking whyyy whyyy they were just saying we've had enough! They looked like they were on sutn! Then they start waving a recolver
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The first guy goes for the female fed with the machete and she not even ramping she took man out like robocop never seen nutn like it

This from the Daily Mail:


'Luke Huseyin, 32, who lives in a block of flats on John Wilson Street, Woolwich, close to where the incident happened said he watched two men murder a man before being shot.

He said: 'I was at home and heard a big bang. I looked out of the window and saw a car had crashed.

'It was a blue Vauxhall. Then two black guys got out of the car dragging a white guy across the road towards the wall.

'One of the guys had a knife that looked about a foot long and a machete and the other bloke had a gun.

'They started slashing him up with the knife and hitting him in the stomach with the machete.

'I don't think it took long before he was dead. There were people passing by who were screaming and running away. I've never seen anything like it.'

Sir Spot of Borg wrote on May 23^rd, 2013 at 5:52am:



I hear the Borgs are well known Psychos in Queensland.

Do you own a meat cleaver Miss Borg?

Multiculturalism, anyone?

I'm sure they were entirely justified in doing this.  Right leftwads?



"In our lands women and children see this all the time."

Says the black man with a british accent.  Where exactly are 'your lands'?

it_is_the_light wrote on May 23^rd, 2013 at 8:28am:



Dear master Light,

hacking an innocent man to death with a machete cannot be forgiven.

namaste

i think its important for moderate muslims to now stand up and be counted.

moderate muslims need to form vigilante groups and hunt scum like this down.
moderate muslims need to behead a few of these psycho muslims to show the rest of the world that they are as repulsed by this as everyone else.

if moderate muslims fail to act without mercy aginst these types of people (and lets face it moderate muslims would have a better idea of who is a radical extremist than other secularists)  than moderate muslims will bear the consequences.

this will only be bad.

the time has come for them to join (in fact lead) a merciless campaign of eradication of every last cretin who thinks like this.  if they dont, in my view, they are complicit in the crime.
they are like the nazis in 1945 who just turned a blind eye to the atrocities committed by other nazi's and then expected forgiveness.
this is unacceptable now, as it was unacceptable in 1945.

aquascoot wrote on May 23^rd, 2013 at 9:18am:


you sound like an extremist

the very thing you hate...

curious to see this here and now.

i do not hate yet send LOVE and LIGHT for

an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind

you are forgiven for hate speech

namaste