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Police officers man a cordoned off area in Woolwich, east London, on May 22, 2013/AFP

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Soldier beheaded in shocking London street attack

He said he had spoken to local borough police commander Richard Wood, and a lieutenant colonel at the Woolwich army barracks.

“One individual is dead, two others are seriously injured and in hospital,” he said.

“We think a serving soldier was the victim. We don’t know the circumstances surrounding the incident.

“We do know a number of weapons have been seized. They include a gun, various knives, and a machete, apparently.

“The police clearly had to take action in order to try and arrest these individuals.”

The Ministry of Defence said it was urgently investigating reports that the dead man was a soldier.

Ed Miliband, leader of the opposition Labour Party, said on Twitter: “Shocked by appalling events in Woolwich. Whole country will be horrified by what has happened.”

The London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic shooting events were staged at a temporary venue at the Royal Artillery.

The barracks houses a number of the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery – which drew former prime minister Margaret Thatcher’s coffin to her funeral last month – and independent companies of the Grenadier and Coldstream Guards.

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The Independent Police Complaints Commission, which is called in whenever firearms officers discharge their weapons, said it was investigating.

“IPCC investigators have been deployed to the scene and to the post-incident process,” a spokesman said.

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