{"id":590651,"date":"2025-11-24T11:21:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T11:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/590651\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T11:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T11:21:13","slug":"knifeman-shouts-allahu-akbar-after-horror-madrid-rampage-in-broad-daylight-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/590651\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Knifeman’ shouts ‘Allahu Akbar’ after horror Madrid rampage in broad daylight | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police tasered and shot a suspected jihadist who shouted Allahu Akbar at them after allegedly stabbing three people in a Madrid street attack<\/a> and then holing up in his flat.\u00a0The 18-year-old, a Spaniard of Moroccan origin, is also allegedly said to have tried to attack officers and recite verses from the Koran<\/a> as they attempted to overpower him.<\/p>\n

The siege in the Madrid<\/a> district of Puente de Vallecas ended with the suspect being shot and seriously injured by police after their Taser guns failed to stop him. He was taken to the Spanish capital\u2019s Gregorio Maranon Hospital where he was believed to remain under police guard this morning. The drama leading up to the shooting began to unfold around 2pm on Saturday in a street called Martin Alvarez Street in Puente de Vallecas when police received reports a man \u201cwith Arab features\u201d had stabbed three people including an elderly lady and a 40-year-old male who had allegedly suffered a two-inch knife wound to his chest.<\/p>\n

A couple of hours later the suspect\u2019s brother rang police to say he was holed up inside his home with a large knife and was acting very aggressively.<\/p>\n

The force are said to have categorised it as an \u201cIslamist terrorist incident\u201d and sent officers from an elite unit specialising in<\/p>\n

demonstration and anti-terrorist operations to surround the property.<\/p>\n

The unnamed teen was tasered twice when officers managed to access the flat around 4.30pm but ended up being shot four times after going at police with a knife.<\/p>\n

One bullet perforated his lung and another hit him in the kidney.<\/p>\n

Police union JUPOL said afterwards: \u201cWe want to show all our support to the companions who acted to neutralise a radicalised young man who had attacked three other people.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was an absolutely proportionate response.\u201d<\/p>\n

An investigation into the incident was ongoing today.<\/p>\n

Although it is reportedly being probed as an Islamist terrorist incident, the suspect was also described as being under the influence of drugs.<\/p>\n

The stab victims received medical attention but none of their injuries have been described as life-threatening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police tasered and shot a suspected jihadist who shouted Allahu Akbar at them after allegedly stabbing three people…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1500,188,186119,123618,186118,186121,12,85202,186120,104,26,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-590651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-islamist-terrorist-incident","11":"tag-madrid-news","12":"tag-madrid-stabbing","13":"tag-madrid-world-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-police-response","16":"tag-puente-de-vallecas","17":"tag-spain","18":"tag-world","19":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115604415322928909","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}