Glasgow hotel stabbings
 West George Street, Glasgow, Scotland, where the Park Inn Hotel is located | |
| Date | 26 June 2020 |
|---|---|
| Time | ~12.50 pm |
| Location | Park Inn Hotel, Glasgow, Scotland |
| Coordinates | 55°51′44″N 4°15′26″W / 55.86223°N 4.25732°W |
| Target | Hotel guests and staff |
| Deaths | 1 (the perpetrator) |
| Non-fatal injuries | 6 |
On 26 June 2020, a mass stabbing attack took place in the Park Inn Hotel, Glasgow, Scotland. Six people, including a police officer, were seriously injured. The attacker was shot dead by police at the scene.
Incident
At approximately 12:50 pm on 26 June 2020, a man with a knife stabbed six people in the Park Inn Hotel, West George Street in the city centre of Glasgow, Scotland.[1]
The attacker was shot dead by a police officer at the scene.[2] A police officer injured in the attack had tackled him, preventing further casualties.[3]
Victims
The attacker stabbed and injured six people, including a police officer and hotel staff.[2] The 42-year-old male police officer confronted the attacker, and suffered serious injuries to his neck, abdomen, and leg.[4] He is in a critical but stable condition in hospital.[1] A 17-year-old boy from Sierra Leone sustained injuries to his foot after a struggle with the attacker. The other injured men are two asylum seekers and two hotel staff members, aged 18, 20, 38, and 53; and all were admitted into hospital.[3][5] One is in critical condition.[6]
At the time of the attack, the Park Inn Hotel had been closed to booked guests due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and had instead been hosting asylum seekers.[7][8] A spokeswoman for the campaign group Positive Action In Housing said the hotel was housing asylum seekers for the Mears Group, a housing and social care provider; 100 asylum seekers were said to have been residing there.[9][10]
Attacker
The attacker, Badreddin Abadlla Adam,[11][12][13] was a 28-year-old male asylum seeker from Sudan who arrived in the UK six months earlier.[14] He went on a rampage after complaining about the hotel meals served to him during the pandemic.[15]
Investigation
Police Scotland announced that the stabbing was not being treated as a terrorist incident.[16]
Police Scotland Assistant Chief Constable Steve Johnson said, "As would be the case in any police discharge of firearms involving a fatality, the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service has instructed the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner to investigate."[17]
Detectives are investigating whether the attacker was in any way inspired by the mass stabbing attack in Reading six days prior.[18]
Reactions
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was "deeply saddened by the terrible incident in Glasgow".[19]
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon wrote on Twitter that her "thoughts are with everyone involved". She requested that the public stay away from the area and that they avoid sharing unconfirmed information.[20]
References
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- ^ a b "Glasgow stabbings: Hero police officer critical after stabbing attack in city centre". Sky News. 27 June 2020.
- ^ a b "Officer stabbed in Glasgow hotel attack named". BBC News. 26 June 2020. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
- ^ Hamilton, Jane; MacSwan, Anna (27 June 2020). "Hero father-of-two policeman seriously injured in Glasgow stabbing pictured". mirror.
- ^ "Six wounded in Glasgow hotel stabbing, suspect killed". Dunya News. 27 June 2020.
- ^ "Man shot dead by police after stab attack named". BBC News. 27 June 2020.
- ^ "Asylum seekers in hotels in Glasgow denied health care by Mears". Bella Caledonia. 16 June 2020. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
- ^ "Man shot dead by armed police after multiple stabbing in Glasgow". The Independent. 26 June 2020. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
- ^ "Police officer critically injured in hotel stabbing attack named". HeraldScotland. 26 June 2020.
- ^ "Suspect dead, six injured in stabbing". PerthNow. 26 June 2020.
- ^ "Man shot dead by police after stab attack named". 28 June 2020 – via www.bbc.com.
- ^ "Glasgow stabbing attacker pictured as mental health warnings emerge". The Independent. 29 June 2020.
- ^ "First picture released of knifeman shot dead by police after stabbing six people outside Glasgow hotel". HeraldScotland.
- ^ "Glasgow stabbings: Badreddin Abadlla Adam named as attacker shot dead by police". Sky News.
- ^ Roberts, Lizzie; Davies, Gareth (26 June 2020). "Glasgow stabbings: Asylum seeker shot dead by police after hotel knife attack" – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
- ^ "Police Scotland on Twitter". Twitter. 26 June 2020. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Williams, Craig; Armstrong, Gary (26 June 2020). "Glasgow stabbing not being treated as terrorism as six critically injured". glasgowlive.
- ^ Penna, Dominic (27 June 2020). "Glasgow stabbing: Six victims in city hospitals as police officer remains in critical condition" – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
- ^ "Knifeman shot dead after terrifying stabbing spree in Glasgow". The New Daily. 26 June 2020.
- ^ "The reports from Glasgow City Centre are truly dreadful. My thoughts are with everyone involved. I am being updated as the situation becomes clearer. Please help the emergency services do their jobs by staying away from the area - and please don't share unconfirmed information". Twitter. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
