Witnesses say a pickaxe-wielding attacker went on a rampage at a hospital in northwest London, leaving two injured.
A person has been arrested after armed officers responded to calls of an incident at Central Middlesex Hospital at about 1.20pm on Wednesday.
One of the victims has life-threatening accidents and a second has non-life-threatening accidents, the Metropolitan Police mentioned.
A person was arrested exterior the hospital and is receiving therapy for accidents believed to be self-inflicted. His situation can also be being handled as life-threatening, police mentioned.
Gareth Browne, a steeplejack contracted to restore the chimney on the hospital, mentioned he noticed the alleged attacker chase two males who managed to flee.
Mr Browne mentioned: “He came out of the side of the building waving a pickaxe, chasing two lads about.
“I approached him and requested if he is OK and he mentioned ‘get out of my f****** method – it is none of your enterprise’.
“So I stepped out of his way and he went back into the hospital waving that pickaxe around.
“Another upkeep boy got here alongside and mentioned ‘he is simply stabbed any person – get away from this place’.
“He was just going on a mad rampage.”
Visitors and sufferers on the hospital had been quickly locked down as police scoured the constructing, ultimately arresting a person exterior.
The incident isn’t being handled as terror associated.
A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police mentioned: “The hospital was temporarily locked down but has now reopened. There is a heightened police presence at the hospital while we investigate.”
Amie Ferris-Rotman, who was visiting the hospital dialysis unit along with her father, instructed Sky News that police checked the world the place they had been earlier than locking them in a nurses’ room for about 45 minutes.
She mentioned: “All the dialysis patients were quite freaked out.
“And at one level those that had been about to go on to dialysis had been placed on wheelchairs and introduced right into a room, which is the place we had been as effectively, and so they had been locked in.”
The London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust, which runs the hospital, mentioned companies would “continue as normal” after the hospital reopened at 4pm.
“While our clinics are reopening, we may need to reschedule your appointment if we can’t see you today,” it mentioned in a tweet.
In an announcement on Twitter, the London Ambulance Service mentioned it was on the scene with paramedics and an air ambulance and unsafe surroundings crew had additionally been deployed.
Health Secretary Steve Barclay tweeted: “My thoughts are with those injured and affected by the incident at Central Middlesex Hospital this afternoon.
“I wish to thank the paramedics and different first responders who’ve been treating folks on the scene.”
Source: information.sky.com”