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NEW YORK CITY — The NYPD has increased coverage of the British consulate, military recruiting stations and other locations in the city following Wednesday's brutal daylight attack of a soldier in London, a police spokesperson said.
Deputy commissioner Paul J. Browne said in a statement Wednesday night the measures are based on "an abundance of caution" and not on information that facilities in New York have been targeted.
Earlier Wednesday, two men with meat cleavers hacked a British soldier to death near a military barracks in the London neighborhood of Woolwich before police wounded them in a shootout.
The attacks, which British officials said were possibly motivated by radical Islam, have raised fears that terrorism has returned to London.
