{"id":9683,"date":"2024-05-01T08:53:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T20:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=9683"},"modified":"2024-05-01T08:53:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T20:53:02","slug":"chaos-hainault-attack-witnesses-describe-attack-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=9683","title":{"rendered":"‘Chaos’: Hainault attack witnesses describe attack horror"},"content":{"rendered":"

The sickening images being shared among people in Hainault capture in unforgiving detail the\u00a0horror which unfolded on Tuesday<\/a>\u00a0(local time).<\/p>\n

As panic spread around this corner of north-east London, some did the only thing they felt they could: took out their phones and captured the attack as it happened.<\/p>\n

One video shows what appears to be a body in the street.<\/p>\n

The stunned resident filming can be heard shrieking, swearing and then saying these unimaginable words: “He just killed that boy. He just killed him right outside my house.”<\/p>\n

It is hard to take in what people here have seen – and I am told that video has been circulated on Instagram amongst local school children.<\/p>\n

The people of Hainault are still processing how a quiet, sunny spring morning descended into bloody panic.<\/p>\n

By the end of it, a\u00a014-year-old boy was dead<\/a>, and four other people were in hospital.<\/p>\n

The attacker was seen looking into people’s homes and clambering into gardens as he marauded around the area.<\/p>\n

One woman described her fear as she hid from him.<\/p>\n

She said: “We were very scared and trying to hide and not show ourselves through the window, because he was standing right next to our house.<\/p>\n

“He could have seen us if he looked up.”<\/p>\n

The shock and sadness of residents here has been palpable all day.<\/p>\n

In the hours between the attack ending and police confirming the death of the child, Alisha Khan spoke to us from her doorstep – close to where police had blocked off roads next to the town’s Underground station.<\/p>\n

“Nothing like that ever happens here,” she said, before opening up about how she feared for her traumatised young daughter who woke to the sight of police swarming their neighbourhood.<\/p>\n

The first residents knew of the attack was when a car “smashed into a house”, as one person who lived opposite put it.<\/p>\n

Eyewitness James Fernando, 39, said the attacker approached his female neighbour and asked her to “take the telephone from him to tell whoever was on the phone his location”.<\/p>\n

Realising something was not right, she started running away as he “pulled a samurai sword from the back of his trousers”.<\/p>\n

Fernando said the woman then shouted out to a “boy who was on his way to school”.<\/p>\n

The attacker struck the boy and then continued to prowl the streets “with the sword in his hand looking for victims”, Fernando said.<\/p>\n

Another eyewitness, Manpreet Singh, said he walked out of his office to see “chaos” on the other side of the road as passers-by tried to contain the attacker.<\/p>\n

He told the BBC: “I saw a group of people, five or six of them, trying to fight off a guy – he had a sword in his hand.”<\/p>\n

Singh said one of those involved in the effort was stabbed, as the others tried to call the police and ambulance.<\/p>\n

The attacker fled and tried to enter a home but could not get the door to open.<\/p>\n

David Maguire was on his way to the station when he saw an injured person with blood covering his hands.<\/p>\n

He said: “With everyone rushing towards you, you don’t know who to trust in that situation. You don’t know who has got the knife, who hasn’t got the knife.<\/p>\n

“It turns out it was a lone person 50 yards up from where I was … Two minutes earlier, it could have been me.”<\/p>\n

As the police pursued the 36-year-old suspect, they were heard shouting at him to “drop the sword” but their warnings were ignored.<\/p>\n

They pursued the suspect as he climbed onto a garage roof and into someone’s garden.<\/p>\n

A police officer can be heard desperately screaming out “lock your doors, everyone lock your doors”.<\/p>\n

The attack was brought to an end when the man was Tasered in a garden.<\/p>\n

Footage from a doorbell camera captures the moment the suspect was finally cornered and forced back against a front door, before being pinned down.<\/p>\n

We spoke to a person outside whose home the rampage came to an end.<\/p>\n

He said: “He went into that driveway and he was being Tasered, being told to stop, then he jumped into that other neighbour’s driveway there.<\/p>\n

“He was being Tasered, went to the floor with all the armed police officers around and he was subdued there for half an hour.”<\/p>\n

Four people – two of whom are police officers – are still in hospital being treated for their wounds.<\/p>\n

The carnage played out over just 22 minutes – but it will take far longer than that for the people of Hainault to comprehend what they have seen.<\/p>\n

Source: BBC and RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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