Images on Portuguese tv confirmed armed police outdoors the Ismaili Muslim centre.

Lisbon, Portugal:

Two folks died on Tuesday following a knife assault at an Islamic centre within the Portuguese capital Lisbon that wounded a number of others, police stated.

Prime Minister Antonio Costa stated it was “premature to make any interpretation of this criminal act.”

“Everything points to this being an isolated incident,” he instructed reporters.

Images on Portuguese tv confirmed armed police outdoors the Ismaili Muslim centre.

“The attack left several people wounded and, for the moment, two dead,” police stated in a press release, including that the suspected assailant had been shot and arrested.

Police stated they arrived on the constructing simply earlier than 11 am (1000 GMT) after being warned {that a} knife assault was underway.

“The police come across a man armed with a large knife. Orders were given to the attacker to cease the attack, which he disobeyed, advancing towards the police, knife in hand,” the police assertion added.

“Faced with the serious and ongoing threat, the policemen used firearms against the person, hitting and neutralising the aggressor.”

The Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims, commonly known as the Ismailis, belong to the Shia department of Islam, in keeping with their web site.

The Ismaili Muslims a “culturally diverse community” dwelling in over 25 nations world wide, it says.

There are round 7,000 Ismaili Muslims dwelling in Portugal, a nation of round 10 million folks.

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