Glasgow stabbings: ‘Multiple fatalities’ in suspected terror attack – latest updates

And another. There is more than one group of terrorists out there I know, but it is Friday lunchtime.

One of the victims is a police officer. From the Telegraph  the Glasgow Times and the BBC

There have been multiple fatalities in a suspected terror attack in Glasgow, a police source has told The Telegraph. Three people are believed to have been stabbed to death in a stairwell to a hotel in Glasgow city centre.

The incident took place on West George Street. One of those stabbed is a police officer, the Scottish Police Federation has confirmed, adding that their family have been informed.

Scottish police say that a male suspect has been shot. 

Connor Gillies BBC reporter tweeting. BREAKING: BBC understands the suspect in triple fatal stabbing in Glasgow has been shot dead by police. UPDATE: The Park Inn hotel where 3 people were stabbed to death was housing asylum seekers during the coronavirus lockdown. Armed police shot the suspect dead at the scene around 2pm. One police officer stabbed & is in hospital.

An eye-witness said: “I saw a man lying on the ground, of African descent, with no shoes on. He was on the ground with someone holding his side – I don’t know if it was a bullet wound, a stab wound, or what it was.” 

Mr Milroy said the man was one of the four taken away by medics and believed him to be a victim of an attack. 
The knifeman is dead, so this man would be a victim. 

A hero delivery driver, who was carrying food into the building when the attack began, said: ‘I went into the hotel and a guy had stabbed the receptionist and maintenance guy. 

‘He then ran back up to his room. I was trying to stem the blood of the maintenance guy when the armed police rushed in and went up to his room and shot the guy. It was absolute carnage, I was on the floor trying to held the guy, the maintenance guy – a big puncture wound. It was absolutely horrific’.