A 36-year-old man was arrested this Tuesday after a attack with a sword in which several people have been allegedly stabbed in a metro station in the Hainault area, northeast of London, as reported by the Metropolitan Police of the British capital.

The event, which according to the first indications would not be terrorist in natureoccurred shortly after 07:00 in the morning, local time (06:00 GMT), when the police received calls alerting that a car had crashed into a house in the Thurlow Garden area.

According to police, the suspect stabbed several people before going out and attack pedestrians and at least two officers of the security forces.

A police official, Ade Adelekan, has admitted “the impact and alarm” that this “terrible incident” may have generated, but has appealed for public calm. “We do not believe there are any more threats for the community. “We are not looking for more suspects,” she said in a statement. He also clarified that “This incident does not appear to be related to terrorism.“.