2 London police officers remain hospitalized after confronting sword-wielding suspect

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London's police chief says two officers remain hospitalized a day after suffering “horrifically serious” injuries as they rushed to stop a sword-wielding attacker on a suburban street.

Handout footage from a doorbell camera of police officers tasering a sword-wielding man in Hainault, north east London , after a 14-year-old boy died after being stabbed following an attack on members of the public and two police officers, Tuesday April 30, 2024. A police forensics officer inspects the scene of an attack in Hainault, north east London , Tuesday April 30, 2024.

Rowley told LBC Radio that the two officers suffered serious arm and hand injuries as they confronted the suspect. A female officer faces “a long journey of recovery” after surgeons spent hours “basically putting her arm back together,” he said.

Video posted on social media showed a man in a yellow hooded sweatshirt being subdued by a stun gun as he confronted police.

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