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Hainault latest: Police giving update after teenage boy killed in east London sword attack - BBC News Police giving update after teenage boy killed in east London sword attack - BBC News
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We've been hearing a bit more from people at the scene of today's attack. Jack Burgess
Nusrit Mehtab, who is a former Met Police superintendent, has been speaking to BBC London and says that the officers responding to this morning's situation would only have had "a minute" to react. Live reporter
"You don't know what you're going to find; you could be dealing with anything," she says.
Mehtab continues by saying the officers would have done a risk assessment and "asked for other units to have come". We are about to pause our live page covering today's attack in Hainault, north-east London, and its aftermath.
She says that although officers are "highly trained in how to deal with knives, and violence", the situations are "hypothetical". Police have said a 14-year-old boy was killed, and four other people were injured, following a sword attack this morning.
"The adrenaline kicks in," she adds. The other victims are all in hospital but are not thought to have life-threatening injuries.
At the moment police are patrolling a cordoned-off area and Mehtab describes this as "the day-to-day work of officers". They are expected to reassure people and make sure they don't go into the cordons," she says. A 36-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and is also being treated in hospital.
You can continue reading about what we know so far in our story here.
And read witnesses describing the "chaos" of the attack here in our reporter Mark Lobel's piece.
This live page was written by Sofia Ferreira Santos, Harry Low, Ruth Comerford, Malu Cursino and Seher Asaf.
It was edited by Sam Hancock, Jack Burgess, Owen Amos, Aoife Walsh and Sophie Abdulla.
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