Do not touch my body
What blood-soaked suspect in burka screamed at medics Witnesses tell of dramatic moment cops stormed house
A WOMAN shot by a marksman during a police raid on an “active terror plot” shouted “don’t touch me, my body, don’t touch my dress”, as paramedics treated her.
The 20-year-old female suspect, who was wearing a burka, was one of six people arrested in a counter-terror operation after a team of specialist firearms officers stormed an address in Willesden, North West London.
Also arrested was Mohamed Amoudi, 21, who was stopped two years ago in Turkey with two sixth-form students amid fears they were heading to Syria to join Islamic State.
Amoudi, who was born in Yemen, was brought back to the UK and arrested on suspicion of planning terrorist attacks, but released without charge in 2015. He was held by armed police on Thursday evening, along with four other people, including a 16-yearold boy.
The 20-year-old female who was shot was taken away on a stretcher in her blood-soaked burka. Ruth Haile, who lives in the road, said she heard shots and saw an injured woman being treated. Ms Haile said: “She shouted, ‘don’t touch me, my body, don’t touch my dress’, as paramedics tended to her.”
Alexandra Sabanov, a mum-of-one who lives next door to the raided house, saw officers with “gas masks” and “snipers”. She said: “We heard, ‘bang, bang, bang, bang’, went to the window and just saw a number of armed police there with their guns pointing at our next-door neighbour’s window.”
She said the woman was “screaming really loud” and described her neighbours as a “standard Muslim couple” of whom she “never suspected anything at all”. Video footage showed the moment elite Met officers smashed through the door and then threw in CS canisters. At least six shots rang out, including two that shattered an upstairs window.
The raids came just a few hours after a man was arrested close to Downing Street carrying a rucksack packed with knives. Scotland Yard said the two cases were unrelated.
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, of Counter Terror Policing, said the Willesden operation had foiled an