POLICE SAY FATAL STABBINGS TERRORISM

READING A stabbing rampage in the southern English town of Reading in which three people were killed and three taken to hospital was an act of terrorism, police said on Sunday, calling the attack in a sunny park an atrocity.

Detectives said a man had run into a park in Reading, about 65 kilometres west of London, where locals had been enjoying the evening sun on Saturday, and attacked people with a knife before being tackled by unarmed officers five minutes after they were alerted.

Police said an unnamed 25-year-old man who had initially been detained on suspicion of murder had since been rearrested under the Terrorism Act. He remains in police custody.

A Western security source told Reuters that the arrested man was a Libyan named Khairi Saadallah.