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UK police charge 19-year-old with London stabbings

Police personnel stand beside floral tributes left in London's Russell Square on August 4, 2016, following an overnight stabbing spree that left one woman dead and five others injured. British police were holding a 19-year-old man on suspicion of murder Thursday after a central London stabbing spree that killed a US woman but appeared unrelated to terrorism. DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP/Getty Images

LONDON – British police have charged a 19-year-old Somali-Norwegian man with carrying out a stabbing rampage in London’s Russell Square that killed an American woman.

London’s Metropolitan Police says Zakaria Bulham, of London, was charged Friday with the murder of 64-year-old Darlene Horton and the attempted murder of five people who were injured in the attack.

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Horton, who was visiting London with her husband, a Florida State University professor, was stabbed to death by a knifeman in a busy tourist area of the city on Wednesday evening.

Bulham, who moved from Norway to Britain as a child, is due in court Saturday.

Police say they have found no link to terrorism for the incident, which came after police warned Londoners to be vigilant after a summer of attacks elsewhere in Europe.

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