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A man has been arrested outside the Queen's London residence after he attacked two police officers with a knife.
The man, who is in his mid-twenties according to the police, was arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm and assault on police near Queen Elizabeth's London residence.
No members of the royal family were present in the palace at the time.
A police cordon outside Buckingham Palace where a man has been arrested after an incident, in London. Photo: Lauren Hurley
A Metropolitan Police spokeswoman was unable to comment on the motivation for the incident.
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The Queen was not in residence at the time of the attack. Photo: Alastair Grant
Footage on Sky News showed emergency vehicles lining the street outside the palace.
"The man was stopped this evening... by officers at the Mall outside Buckingham Palace in possession of (a) knife," the police said in a statement.
"During the course of detaining him, two male police officers suffered minor injuries to their arm."
The suspect was taken to a London hospital for treatment of minor injuries, the police statement added.
There were no other reported injuries.
The police said the suspect will be questioned by detectives and that it is too early to speculate further.
One witness described seeing the man wrestled from a car by police having apparently driven his vehicle towards them.
Kiana Williamson told the Press Association: "We turned up and there was one police van and one car, there was also a civilian's car that had veered towards the police car.
"They were trying to get the man out of the car, shouting, more police were arriving on to the scene and the man was fighting back"
Ms Williamson said the encounter lasted about one minute.
The attack, the motivations of which are not know, comes only about an hour after another knife attack in a European capital, Belgium, where a man attacked two soldiers with a knife.