Women shout ‘Allah’ in attack on nursery worker

A nursery worker was slashed by three women who attacked her in the street while shouting “Allah”, her colleague has said.

The white woman, who is in her 30s, was said to have been left in “shock” after she was set upon by a trio “dressed all in black” as she walked to work.

“She had three Asian girls behind her chanting the Koran, ‘Allah’,” Karrien Stevens, the opera- tions manager of Little Diamonds nursery in Wanstead, east London, said.

“They pulled her to the ground, punched her, kicked her.

“One of them pulled out a knife and cut her arm from her wrist to her elbow.”

Police were called to the scene on the corner of Wanstead High Street and Hermon Hill at 9:36am yesterday. A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: “Counter-terror officers are aware of the incident but it is not being treated as terrorism at this stage.”