6 injured in Glasgow stabbing; suspect killed
27 June, 2020
Scottish police said officers shot dead a guy just after a suspected stabbing attack in Friday at a Glasgow hotel housing asylum seekers that still left six others wounded, including one of their colleagues.
Police Scotland said that the incident in the Park Inn hotel in the city's centre had not been being treated as a terrorist incident.
"The individual who was shot by armed law enforcement has got died," Assistant Chief Constable Steve Johnson said, adding that the problem was "contained" and there is no risk to everyone.
He said that the wounded 42-year-old officer was in a critical but stable condition, but gave no details how he or the other victims were injured.
The five other victims are men, aged 17, 18, 20, 38 and 53, the police said, without revealing their condition.
Police were called to the hotel in about 1 p.m. and the encompassing area was cordoned away.
One man who said he lived on the hotel's third flooring told Sky News tv he heard a man shouting for help and a woman screaming.
He visited investigate and found the lift up was "covered found in blood" then saw two people "gasping for air flow" after being stabbed.
The hotel was being used to accommodate asylum seekers through the coronavirus outbreak, homelessness and individual rights charity Positive Action in Housing tweeted.
The Kurdish Scottish Association was quoted as saying by the Glasgow Times newspaper there have been about 100 asylum seekers in the hotel at that time.
Residents had complained about being kept interior and too little money, while some had mental health issues, it all said, calling the problem "shocking".
Positive Action in Housing has previously voiced concerns about solo men, women, families and pregnant women -- most of them vulnerable -- being "dumped" into hotels.
Britain's interior ministry provides been using empty hotels across the country to accommodate asylum seekers and refugees through the global pandemic.
Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the happenings were "truly dreadful", and praised emergency solutions who ensured "a very, very serious incident didn't become much worse".
UK interior minister Priti Patel said it "deeply alarming" while Primary Minister Boris Johnson said he was "deeply saddened by the horrible incident".
"My thoughts happen to be with all the current victims and their own families," he tweeted.
The incident comes under a week after three people were stabbed to loss of life in a park in Reading, southeast England, that police were treating as terror-related.
A 25-year-old man widely reported to be a Libyan asylum seeker was arrested regarding the the random stabbing that killed three friends.
Videos shared on sociable media showed armed law enforcement in plain outfits on West George Road, where the hotel is located.
Television footage also appeared to show several people being frogmarched out of the hotel, with their hands in this article their heads.
A witness quoted by the domestic Press Association news agency said he found one man lying on the floor without shoes, and someone positioning his side.
"I have no idea if it had been a bullet wound, a good stab wound, or what it had been," said Craig Milroy, who gets results within an office nearby.
He said the person was among four persons he saw taken away by paramedics.
"From then on we saw commotion, ambulances further up and we saw armed law enforcement all running in to the hotel up coming to the Society Area (pub)," the witness said. "After that the authorities all arrived down, the riot law enforcement and triage crew told us to return in and lock the entranceway."
Another witness, who gave her name as Louisa, told Sky Current information she saw "people being treated with blood on the ground".
"I saw persons running from the hotel with the authorities shouting, 'put your hands up, put the hands up, come out'," she said. "There were police autos, ambulances all around the street plus they cordoned it off.
"Law enforcement were shouting to persons in other buildings close to the Park Inn hotel to remain inside and not come into the street."
Source: japantoday.com
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