Bishopsgate stabbing: Eyewitnesses share accounts following robbery attempt

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Three people have been stabbed in central London as members of the public tried to intervene in a phone snatch robbery.

According to witnesses, a group of two or three masked knifemen attacked a pedestrian just before 10am in Bishopsgate near Liverpool Street Station on Thursday.

It is believed members of the public had sought to intervene in an attempt to stop the assailants.

Following the incident, the City of London Police, who attended the scene, said the attack was not being treated as terror-related but is being treated as a suspected robbery, with the incident involving a phone being snatched.

Now witnesses have shared what they saw at the scene after London Ambulance Service (LAS) attended the scene and said crews treated four people.

Eyewitnesses share accounts following stabbing in Bishopsgate

One witness said he saw two or three teenagers on bicycles watching a middle-aged man before they grabbed him during a phone snatch robbery in the City of London.

Describing the knifeman as wearing a fleece mask.

The worker, who did not want to be named, described the scene telling PA news agency: “I saw two or three teenagers on bicycles and they were following this middle-aged man, around 40 to 50, who was smartly dressed.

“The next thing I saw was this teenager grabbing this guy, this middle-aged man. Things escalated so quickly.

“Pedestrians got involved and they were trying to help the middle-aged man. I heard lots of screams and shouts.

“The next minute, a man on a white moped saw what happened and jumped off, and got himself involved.

“There was a fight with these teenagers. Out of nowhere, the guy on the moped got stabbed.

“The middle-aged man was already on the floor at this point after he got stabbed and another pedestrian got hurt too, his head was hurt.

“The teenagers then just took off.”