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Monday, 3rd February 2020

One man was shot dead by Scotland Yard in the south London ward of Lambeth on Sunday after he wounded three individuals – one indeed – in what the police depicted as a fear episode, the second since the November 29 assault on London Bridge.

The police said in an announcement after the assault: "Three individuals are known to have been harmed in the #Streatham assault prior this evening. One individual is at an emergency clinic in a dangerous condition. We are advising their family".

"The scene has been completely contained… The occurrence has been announced as fear-based oppressor related."

The Streatham occurrence around 2 pm UK opportunity arrived two months after the November 29 assault, when indicted fear-based oppressor Usman Khan killed two individuals being shot dead.

Executive Boris Johnson tweeted on Sunday: "Thank you to all crisis administrations reacting to the occurrence in Streatham, which the police have now proclaimed as fear-based oppression related. My contemplations are with the harmed and each one of those influenced".

London civic chairman Sadiq Khan, who is answerable for police in the capital, included: "Fear monger look to partition us and to annihilate our lifestyle – here in London we will never allow them to succeed."

Witnesses talked about three discharges being terminated and a man lying on the ground. Police helicopters and ambulances were rapidly on the scene after the episode unfurled around 2 pm UK time. There were reports that the man may have conveyed a hazardous gadget.

Gulled Bulhan, a 19-year-old understudy told the PA news office: "I was going across the street when I saw a man with a cleaver and silver canisters on his chest being pursued by what I accept that was a covert cop - as they were in non-military personnel attire".

"The man was then shot. I think I heard three firearm shots yet I can't exactly recollect. After that, I ran into the library to find a good pace. From the library, I saw a heap of ambulances and outfitted cops land on the scene."

"We were altogether educated to remain in structures by equipped police until we were emptied," he said.

Chris Phillips, the previous leader of Britain's National Counter Terrorism Security Office, told the BBC that Sunday's episode "looks fundamentally the same as what we saw on London Bridge… We can dare to dream that police have managed it completely now and that it's one individual acting alone".

Chime Ribeiro-Addy, Labor MP for Streatham, stated: "Clearly, we shouldn't make it an issue to partition us since that is the thing that fears based oppression is. On the off chance that we are apprehensive and if we are partitioned, at that point the psychological militants at last win.