London Nov 2 (IANS) Several people were injured as a taxi ploughed into pedestrians after mounting the pavement here on Wednesday London Metropolitan Police said and ruled out the possibility of terrorism.
Police said in a statement they were called around 5 p.m. to reports of a taxi in collision with pedestrians in Southampton Street Xinhua news agency reported.
The driver of the taxi stopped at the scene and has been detained by police.
A pedestrian has been "seriously injured" in the accident BBC reported.
Police said it is being treated as a serious road traffic collision and not thought to be terrorism related.
The incident has happened just a day after an Islamic State-linked terror strike in New York in which a van killed eight persons near the site of the 9/11 attack in New York.
Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov 29 a Uzbek immigrant who drove the rented van on to a bike path along the Hudson River running over bicyclist and pedestrians amd also injuring 13 people was shot and arrested by police.
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