A man stabbed three people at an east London Tube station on Saturday before police subdued him with a stun gun and made an arrest.
The alleged terrorist attacked people at the station, he lashed a man across the throat at a busy London tube station and allegedly shouted 'this is for Syria'.
One of the men sustained serious injuries not considered to be life-threatening. Two others suffered minor injuries. Videos posted to YouTube shows large pool of blood is on the ground near the exit gates.
The suspect was taken to a London police station. The incident was considered a terrorist attack
Police Commander Richard Walton, who leads the Met's Counter Terrorism Command, said: "I would urge the public to remain calm, but alert and vigilant. The threat from terrorism remains at severe, which means that a terrorist attack is highly likely."
Intelligence obtained by European security agencies indicates ISIS is aiming to attack the United Kingdom as a follow-up to its attacks in Paris last month.
The Tube, also called the London Underground, is the city's subway system. It has 270 stations on 11 lines that stretch a total of 250 miles.
In 2005, suicide bombers attacked three Underground trains and a double-decker bus in a coordinated attack that left 52 people dead and more than 770 wounded. A British al Qaeda operative planned the bombings, according to internal al Qaeda documents that surfaced in 2012.
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