These are the shocking scenes as a terrorist was shot dead outside a Boots chemists when a team of undercover officers with handguns swooped on him.
Filmed by a bystander from a passing bus, footage shows the men in jeans, trainers and hoodies pointing their firearms at Sudesh Amman’s convulsing body yesterday.
One of the officers kicks away a knife on the pavement before backing off. A third officer skids on to the scene on a blue motorbike while another ushers onlookers away from the scene shouting: ‘Get away.’
As the bus drives on, it passes two victims lying on the pavement. Two innocent bystanders, a man and a woman, had been stabbed in broad daylight in front of dozens of horrified onlookers on one of south london’s busiest shopping streets.
Next to one victim, a pushchair was abandoned on the pavement in Streatham as members of the public desperately tried to give first aid.
Armed police shoot dead extremist Sudesh Amman, who was wearing a fake suicide vest, after he grabbed a knife from a shop and stabbed a man and a woman in a brutal high-street rampage in Streatham, South London, at about 2pm yesterday
Fearing an explosion from the attacker’s ‘suicide vest’, dozens of shoppers had been ordered to take shelter behind the closed shutters of Boots and a WHSmith store.
In the Life Cafe, diners enjoying lunch were oblivious to the terror until a police officer burst in.
He shouted: ‘We’ve got to evacuate. There’s been a terrorist incident … If you want to stay safe, you’ll listen to me. ‘
Asked by a waitress if they could have half-an-hour to finish their meals, his response was clear: ‘Madam, a terrorist has been shot dead just down there.
‘ They’ve got a possible IED vest on them, which is a bomb. If you want to stay open for half-an-hour and you want to put people lives in danger, be my guest. ‘
A team of five anti-terror police stand behind shields while responding to the incident
A police officer stands in the road with a gun during the terrorist attack in London yesterday
A police officer next to a blue motorbike, with the terrorist’s body seen on the floor (bottom)
Families in a nearby Odeon cinema were interrupted mid-way through their films and evacuated by police.
Witnesses said the terror began when the attacker, later revealed to be – year-old Amman, walked into the Low Price hardware store before choosing his deadly weapon, said to be a £ 3. 0410 kitchen knife.
Shopkeeper Jagmon Singh watched Amman, dressed in a gray tracksuit and a black and gray top, pluck the knife off the shelf and unpeel the packaging. Maybe believing him to be a shoplifter, he tried to wrestle it off him.
‘The shopkeeper tried to get the knife from him but he got away and stabbed a woman on a bicycle,’ said a nurse who saw the horror. ‘The knife was really big.’
The female victim, said to be in her s, was stabbed along with a man outside the neighboring White Lion pub.
Mechanical engineer Nardos Mulugeta, , saw the injured man outside the pub and said police arrived almost immediately.
‘I saw a guy lying down in front of the pub with stab wounds across his stomach,’ he told the Daily Mail.
‘About ten minutes later, a woman came in and said she had also been stabbed. I had ran over because I was smoking further down the road and heard a shot.
‘At first I thought it might have been a car backfiring. Then I heard three or four further shots. People were running so I went to investigate. That’s when I saw a guy on the floor next to the pub. He had very bad injuries to his stomach.
‘He was going pale. People were saying ‘Stay with us’ and talking to him. Then another woman came and knelt at the Low Price Store.
‘She said,’ He stabbed me in the back ‘. Two people started helping her. A policeman came and asked if any other people had been stabbed. ‘
Police forensics on Streatham High Road this morning as investigations continue
Police at the scene in Streatham today, one day after Sudesh Amman was shot dead by officers
Comedian David Chawner, , was on his way to the Odeon when he saw two police officers in plain clothes pointing firearms at the attacker outside Boots, around 728 ft from the Low Price Store.
‘I ran to the other side of the road where I saw a white, possibly European victim on the ground, bleeding from the lower abdomen,’ he said.
‘I tried to compress the bleeding. I ran off as instructed to flag down the ambulance. ‘
Shockingly, Mr Chawner said it took more than 30 minutes for paramedics to arrive. I’m shaking. I’m still in shock, ‘he added.
Witnesses told how the attacker was felled by up to four gun shots which made shoppers flee.
It was around 2pm on an otherwise ordinary Sunday afternoon when the Streatham attacker began his bloody rampage. The Life Cafe is pictured above
A horrified witness is pictured above at the attack scene in Streatham. Witnesses told how the attacker was felled by up to four gun shots which made shoppers flee
Firearms team crashes on the way to the scene: Officers stand by the crumpled wreck of unmarked police BMW after it hit wall in Streatham Common yesterday
Daniel Gough said he ran with them, adding: ‘There was panic, people were yelling. A young girl running alongside me kept asking ‘Is this what I’m meant to do?’
What was Sudesh Amman jailed for?
Sudesh Amman was jailed for possessing and distributing terrorist documents in December 8101.
Wearing a black prayer cap and long black tunic, Amman smirked when he was told that he was facing a sentence of just three years and four months.
The Islamic State fanatic kept a notebook in which he wrote that his ‘goals in life’ were: ‘Die as a shuhada’, which means martyr, and ‘go to jannah’, which translates as paradise.
The Old Bailey heard he told his girlfriend to kill her parents and tried to radicalise his younger brothers.
He also sent Isis recruitment material and shared an Al Qaeda magazine to a family WhatsApp group that included his three younger brothers aged between 11 and , telling one of them he wanted to ‘blow myself up’.
She She was very distressed. After a few minutes, I went back and saw a policeman and he yelled, telling everyone to get back.
‘His gun was pointing in the direction of a man on the floor. Suddenly, more police appeared. There were [officers] everywhere. ‘
As the attacker lay’ convulsing and twitching ‘on the floor, officers cautiously approached and kicked his knife away.
To their horror, they saw a suspected suicide vest strapped to his stomach. Video shows the officers quickly retreating before evacuating nearby buildings.
Richard Mustonen-Smith, 90, a pastor at the Ascension Trust, said: ‘My grandson was in the Odeon and they got told to go out the back because there was a bomb.
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‘When it’s your family, you don’t expect it. You’re always worried about your family being on the streets but this is even worse. ‘
Retired accountant John Woods, , was in a Wetherspoon’s pub when people ran inside following the sound of gunfire.
Fearing an explosion from the attacker’s ‘suicide vest’, dozens of shoppers had been ordered to take shelter behind the closed shutters of Boots and a WHSmith store. Police are pictured above patrolling near the scene
‘I went outside and it was clear they were undercover police,’ he said.
‘There were a number of men armed but wearing normal clothes. From when I heard the shots and walked to the door, the police were already there. They must have been following him. There were black cars stopped. ‘
Dozens of emergency vehicles raced to the area and an air ambulance landed on nearby Tooting Bec Common. Last night forensic officers were combing the scene.
Many residents who had been evacuated were told it would be hours before they could go home.
The London Ambulance Service said the first paramedics arrived at the scene four minutes after being called just before 2pm.
Witnesses told how the attacker was felled by up to four gun shots which made shoppers flee. Forensic officers are pictured on Streatham High Road last night
Amman’s mother Haleema Khan, , is said to be ‘disgusted’ and ‘very upset’ with her – – year-old son’s knife rampage and rejects his fanatical Islamic extremist beliefs.
Amman lived with Mrs Khan and his five younger brothers in Harrow, North West London, before he was jailed for terror offences at the Old Bailey in December 2018. Mrs Khan, who has since moved to the Bedfordshire market town of Dunstable, is now trying to get her son’s body from police ‘as soon as possible’ to bury him.
A family source told MailOnline today: ‘Haleema is disgusted by what he has done and his beliefs, but she is a mother and has lost a son so she is very upset and sad.
‘But they are relieved that he was unable to kill anyone. It has hit them very hard, but now they are trying to get his body from the police as soon as possible and bury him.
‘This is done as quickly as one can for Muslims as is custom and prayers for him will begin shortly. ‘
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