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The woman killed in the Russell Square knife rampage, in which a man stabbed six people at random, has been named as Darlene Horton.

The 64-year-old is the only person to have died in the central London attack, late on Wednesday evening, when a man began attacking people at random at around 10.30pm.


The Metropolitan Police said they had arrested a 19-year-old Norwegian national of Somali descent on suspicion of Horton’s murder. He is still in custody. Sky News has named him as Zakaria Bulhan.


Horton and her husband Richard Wagner were in London for a summer course and were due to return to the US on Thursday.


Florida State University, where Wagner is a psychology scholar, issued a statement saying: “There are no words to express our heartache over this terrible tragedy.”


Police had earlier said there was no evidence the attack was related to terrorism but was “triggered by mental health issues”.


A British man, who suffered a stab wound to his stomach, remains in hospital. Police said his condition was serious but stable.


They also confirmed the injuries and nationalities of the other victims, who have all been discharged from hospital. They are:



- An American man, who suffered a stab wound to his chest.


- An Australian woman, who suffered a stab wound to her back.


- An Australian woman, who suffered a stab wound to his chest.


- An Israeli woman, who suffered a stab wound to her bicep.


One witness revealed the last panic-stricken words of Horton.

The witness, who used towels in an attempt to halt the blood pouring from the victim’s wounds, said: “I was just trying to console and help her.


“The victim said something about, ‘He’s still here, he’s still here’. After that she was not lucid,” the Evening Standard reports.


Police originally said officers were pursuing terrorism as a “line of inquiry”, but subsequent statements have omitted any mention of terrorism.


An eyewitness said he believed the victims were speaking in Spanish prior to the stabbing.


The witness, called Michael, told MailOnline: “I heard a scream, and then we went to the park and I saw a girl lying on the floor with blood coming from her back. Another girl had blood on her arm.”


He added: “They all spoke Spanish so I guess they were a group. I only saw the victim and the girl with the arm stabbed from that group.


“I just saw blood just next to her. She was lying on the floor with a friend hugging her.”