In a gruesome incident, a man with two knives reportedly slit “his own throat” right in the middle of a busy street in Glasgow. In a footage shot by an office worker in a nearby building, a man is seen walking down West Nile Street holding something in his hands.
Police can be seen arriving at the scene, pepper-spraying him, and then tackling him to the ground. The man later died from his injuries. Witnesses said he “calmly slit his own throat” in front of terrified children. One of the many people who saw the incident go down, Shaun Keegan, 29, said, “I can't unsee the way he put the knife to his neck and started slashing. How calmly he took the blade and started cutting. He looked focused and was walking straight ahead.” He said he first registered something bad was happening, when he saw a traffic warden sprinting down the street.
“I looked further down and it looked like someone was smacking something with what looked like an umbrella. A moment later I saw this man deliberately cutting his own throat with a Stanley knife.” Dressed in stab-proof vests, officers soon rushed down the street and the man was taken to Glasgow Royal Infirmary where he died of his injuries.
