A 19-year-old Norwegian national of Somali origin has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 60-year-old woman from the US was stabbed to death and another five people were injured last night in a knife attack in Russell square .
The Met Police’s assistant commissioner for specialist operations, Mark Rowley, said: “We’ve found no evidence of radicalisation that would suggest the man in our custody is in anyway motivated by terrorism.”
Police believe the attack in central London on Wednesday was “spontaneous” and triggered by mental health issues.
The injured people were from Britain, America, Israel and Australia.
