Crazy Footage: London Man Tries To Justify Hacking Soldier To Death To Cameraman Before Being Shot By Police "You Will Never Be Safe" [Video] *UPDATE* Attacker Labeled As Terrorist

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Via Metro UK

Footage of one of the men suspected of hacking to death a young man, thought to be a soldier, in broad daylight in south-east London attempting to justify the attack has been broadcast on ITV News.

The astonishing video shows a man with bloodied palms and holding a cleaver discuss the killing with a member of the public filming him.

The attack in John Wilson Street, Woolwich, has been described as a suspected terrorist attack by government sources.

Witnesses have described two men hacking a man with cleavers before dragging his body into the middle of the street ‘like a piece of meat’.

In the video shown by ITV News during its 6.30 p.m. bulletin and later posted online, the man, wearing a grey hooded jacket and black woolly hat, apologizes to people who witnessed the attack.

"We must fight them as they fight us, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth," he says to unseen bystanders, as other people stand around in the background.

"I apologize that women had to witness this today but in our land our women have to see the same."

The man, who speaks clear English without a hint of a foreign accent, adds: "You people will never be safe – remove your government, they don’t care about you."

He then walks back towards the victim lying prone in the street to talk to the second suspect.

Later footage shows the men also lying in the street after being shot by armed police called to the scene.

They are being treated in separate hospitals, with one suspect in a critical condition.

Home secretary Theresa May said: "It has been confirmed to me that a man has been brutally murdered this afternoon in south-east London. Two other men were shot by armed police and they are currently receiving treatment for their injuries."

"This is a sickening and barbaric attack."

David Cameron is set to return to the UK tonight after cancelling plans to remain in Paris after talks with French president Francois Hollande.

The prime minister, who described the attack as "truly shocking," said: "We’ve had these type of attacks in our country before, and we never buckle in the face of them."

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