(Credit: Evan Somerville, The Telegraph)
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The British Museum has been evacuated after a stabbing, which witnesses claim took place in the queue.
The Metropolitan Police said a man has been arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm after a man was stabbed at around 10am on Tuesday directly outside the museum, at the junction of Great Russell Street and Museum Street.
A man has been hospitalised in a major trauma centre with a stab wound to the arm, but his condition is not yet known.
The force said it was “an isolated incident and there is no outstanding risk to the public” and it is not being treated as terrorism-related, with a crime scene tent erected at the scene.
Eyewitnesses said they saw a middle-aged victim “dripping blood everywhere” and “screaming” after an attack in the queue along the busy street Great Russell Street outside the museum, while the attacker allegedly fled before being arrested on a nearby street.
(Note that as this is a breaking story, live updates can be seen via https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/ukne...1&cvid=089e137acd774ec9886021a0098c4a92&ei=65 - which is also the link for this story).
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The British Museum has been evacuated after a stabbing, which witnesses claim took place in the queue.
The Metropolitan Police said a man has been arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm after a man was stabbed at around 10am on Tuesday directly outside the museum, at the junction of Great Russell Street and Museum Street.
A man has been hospitalised in a major trauma centre with a stab wound to the arm, but his condition is not yet known.
The force said it was “an isolated incident and there is no outstanding risk to the public” and it is not being treated as terrorism-related, with a crime scene tent erected at the scene.
Eyewitnesses said they saw a middle-aged victim “dripping blood everywhere” and “screaming” after an attack in the queue along the busy street Great Russell Street outside the museum, while the attacker allegedly fled before being arrested on a nearby street.
(Note that as this is a breaking story, live updates can be seen via https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/ukne...1&cvid=089e137acd774ec9886021a0098c4a92&ei=65 - which is also the link for this story).
