British police have arrested a man after two people were stabbed in Golders Green, an area of north London with a large Jewish population, the Times newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Golders Green is home to a large Jewish community, and there is a substantial Iranian diaspora living nearby in north London.
Shomrim, a Jewish security organisation, said on X that a man was seen running with a knife and attempting to stab Jewish members of the public, before its officers detained him.
Police then attended and deployed a taser, the group added. The Metropolitan Police in London has not immediately commented on the incident.
Over the last month, counter-terrorism officers have arrested more than two dozen people as part of investigations into attacks on Jewish-linked premises.
The stabbing attack came as the British police were investigating a suspected arson attack on a London memorial wall on Tuesday. The wall currently commemorates Iranians killed in anti-government protests in Iran.
The memorial wall in Golders Green originally commemorated victims of the October 7, 2023, attack by Palestinian Hamas militants on Israel. But the space was gifted to the Iranian community, who have plastered it with pictures of victims of Iran’s crackdown on protesters.
The Metropolitan Police said the arson attack took place shortly after midnight on Monday and did not damage the wall itself.