British soldier butchered in London street attack

London: British counter-terrorism police were on Thursday investigating the murder of a man thought to be a soldier, who was butchered and beheaded on a busy London street by two men shouting Islamist slogans.

The attackers, wielding knives including a meat cleaver, carried out the attack a few hundred meters from the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, southeast London, then delivered an Islamist tirade to passers-by.