UK Police: Park Stabbings That Killed 3 Was a Terror Attack

Police stand guard at the Abbey gateway of Forbury Gardens park in England's Reading town centre following a June 20 stabbing attack in the gardens, on June 21, 2020. Jonathan Brady/PA via AP

READING, England—British police said on June 21 that they are treating a stabbing rampage in a park that killed three people as a terrorist attack.

Dean Haydon, the U.K.’s coordinator of counterterrorism policing, said counterterror detectives were taking over the investigation into the attack in the town of Reading, west of London. Police had earlier said they were keeping an open mind about the motive.