A man has been arrested following a knife attack that left five people injured at an Argos warehouse in south London on Thursday morning.
One of the victims told the PA news agency that the attacker was “stabbing at me like a serial killer” before he managed to fend him off using a fire extinguisher.
Joseph Denton, 29, who was at the site for an audit, described hearing shouts from the warehouse. “We thought we’ve got to go and help them,” Denton said.
He added: “[The attacker] sliced my finger open and got a couple of cuts on my arms. I picked up a fire extinguisher, opened the door, and hit him on the head with it. There were about six of us all attacking him at this point, and then he ran off.”
Denton said the attacker wielded a large knife resembling a “Rambo knife about eight inches, with jagged edges.”
Five people were treated for injuries, with one transported to a major trauma center in London and four others taken to local hospitals, according to the London Ambulance Service. Police confirmed that a 54-year-old man sustained non-life-threatening injuries.
An air ambulance was seen landing in nearby Beddington Park as part of the emergency response.
The incident occurred at the Argos depot on Marlowe Way in the Beddington area of Croydon. A spokesperson for Argos stated, “We’re doing everything we can to support the teams on site and gathering as much information as possible to support the police with their investigation.”
The London Metropolitan Police are continuing their investigation into the attack. It remains unclear whether the arrested individual is among those hospitalized.
A spokesperson for the London Ambulance Service said, “We were called at 10:21 a.m. to reports of a stabbing incident in Marlowe Way, Croydon. We sent multiple resources to the scene, including ambulance crews, a paramedic in a fast response car, an incident response officer, members of our Tactical Response Unit, and London’s Air Ambulance.”
