Croydon stabbings: man ‘fended off knife attacker with fire extinguisher’

Man, 30, arrested after five people injured at distribution centre on south London industrial estate

A man has described how he fought and fended off a knife-wielding attacker with a fire extinguisher after barricading himself and others inside a warehouse where five people were injured during a mass stabbing.

Police arrested a 30-year-old man after the attack at a warehouse close to a supermarket in Croydon, south London, after they were called to the incident in the morning.