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The '''2013 Woolwich beheading''' was a suspected [[terrorist attack]] on May 22, 2013 on an off-duty British military cadet by two assailants who decapitated him with a machete and butcher's knife while allegedly shouting Islamist slogans.<ref name="telegraph-terror-attack">{{cite news|title=Telegraph article on terror attack in Woolwich|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10073910/Soldier-beheaded-in-Islamist-terror-attack-oustide-barracks-in-Woolwich.html}}</ref> Two men are reported to have been shot by police, they survived the shots and are held under armed guard at a hospital.<ref name=bbc-suspected>{{cite news|title=Man dead in suspected Woolwich terror attack|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22630303|accessdate=22 May 2013|date=22 May 2013}}</ref><ref name=bbc-livefeed>{{cite news|title=Live feed of BBC News on Woolwich terror attack|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22630304|accessdate=22 May 2013|date=22 May 2013}}</ref>


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