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General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on June 21, 2020, 09:32:33 AM

Title: Reading stabbings: Three people dead after Forbury Gardens attack
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 21, 2020, 09:32:33 AM
Odd that having been to that park a couple of times in the past makes this seem closer.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-53123975
Title: Re: Reading stabbings: Three people dead after Forbury Gardens attack
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 21, 2020, 10:40:38 AM
Quote from: Nearly Sane on June 21, 2020, 09:32:33 AM
Odd that having been to that park a couple of times in the past makes this seem closer.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-53123975 ;D

I think that's the wrong smiley!
Title: Re: Reading stabbings: Three people dead after Forbury Gardens attack
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 21, 2020, 10:41:39 AM
Quote from: Trentvoyager on June 21, 2020, 10:40:38 AM
I think that's the wrong smiley!
Wasn't meant to be any smiley, fat fingers
Title: Re: Reading stabbings: Three people dead after Forbury Gardens attack
Post by: Gordon on June 21, 2020, 11:24:47 AM
According to the Guardian Live blog this is now being seen as a terrorist incident.

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Counter-terrorism police have declared the Reading stabbings, in which three people were killed and three people were seriously injured, is a terrorist incident.
Title: Re: Reading stabbings: Three people dead after Forbury Gardens attack
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 21, 2020, 12:05:29 PM
Quote from: Gordon on June 21, 2020, 11:24:47 AM
According to the Guardian Live blog this is now being seen as a terrorist incident.
Along with everything else this feels as tense a time as a society that I can remember.