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         Cameron: Indications Suggest London Killing was Terror-related

   by Reuters

   British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday that there were
   "strong indications" that a killing in London was terror-related.

   "It is the most appalling crime," Cameron said, before cutting short a
   visit to Paris. "The police are urgently seeking the full facts about
   this case but there are strong indications that it is a terrorist
   incident." Cameron called an emergency security meeting on Wednesday
   after a man was killed near an army barracks in London, and two men
   were shot and wounded by police.

   Media reports said the dead man was a British soldier who was hacked to
   death by unidentified assailants. Some reports suggested his attackers
   tried to behead him while shouting "God is greatest" in Arabic.

   "This is a sickening and barbaric attack," Home Secretary Theresa May
   said in a statement.

   ''Britain's government convenes meetings of its emergency security
   committee only to deal with incidents that have implications for
   national security. A security source told Reuters on condition of
   anonymity that it was too soon to say whether the incident was terror
   related.

   Security was tightened in the area immediately after the attack but
   details were sketchy. Helicopters hovered above the residential area
   and nearby roads were sealed off by the police.

   "[That] this can happen in the center of a busy town, it's really
   really shocking and traumatizing for everybody, all local residents," a
   witness who gave her name as Tenisan told Reuters in a nearby street.

   London was last hit by a serious attack in July 2005 when four young
   men set off suicide bombs on the underground and bus network, killing
   52 people and injuring hundreds. Four others failed to repeat a similar
   attack two weeks later.

   A second attack, aimed at a packed nightclub in central London, in 2007
   failed when police found two car bombs packed with petrol, gas and
   nails in London's theater district on a busy weekend night.
   Photographs posted online showed at least two people on the ground who
   appeared to be injured, but no further details were immediately
   available.

   A teacher at a local school told the BBC earlier he saw a body on the
   road and afterwards heard gunshots.

   "A number of weapons were reportedly being used in the attack, and this
   included reports of a firearm," London police said in a statement.
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