Police are investigating a stabbing in which a man rampaged with a baseball bat and knife while hurling racist abuse (Picture: PA)

A stabbing in Surrey in which a man rampaged with a baseball bat and knife while hurling racist abuse is being treated as a terror attack.

Counter terrorism officers and Surrey Police are investigating the incident in a Tesco car park in Stanwell on Saturday night.

A 50-year-old man from the village, which is near Heathrow Airport, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and racially aggravated public order offences, Counter Terrorism Policing South East said.

A 19-year-old man, who went to a nearby McDonald’s to try to get help, was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries and continues to receive treatment, police said.

The attacker reportedly asked his victim if he “wanted to die” before he was stabbed.

Surrey Live reported that he asked the teenager, “Do you wanna die? Well you’re gonna die”.

A witness said he then stabbed the teenager in the hand.

Neighbours reported that the man shouted “All Muslims must die” and “I’m gonna kill Muslims” during his rampage.

Neighbours said they were “shocked” and “scared” by the incident. But the girlfriend of the arrested man said he was in “no way a terrorist”.

View photos The alleged incident took place in Viola Avenue in Stanwell, Surrey (Picture: PA) More

She said: ” It’s not like him, he’s definitely 100% not a terrorist, he’s the loveliest guy you could meet.

“I think he needs help, rather than being classed a terrorist. He’s had a lot going on in his life and I’ve stood by him and I think this was just something that tipped him.

“It’s all got out of control. He’s the love of my life and I will stand by him.”

Officers were called at around 10.30pm to reports of a man acting aggressively and shouting racist comments while carrying the weapons in Viola Avenue where vehicles had been damaged.

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They then received another call reporting a man had been stabbed nearby. Armed police attended and arrested a suspect who remains in custody.

One resident said she came “within feet” of the attacker, who was “walking in the middle of the road swinging a shiny weapon” back and forth.

She added: “I turned around and ran down the next road, hid in an alley, waited for the coast to be clear and ran,” she said.

She said he had “something covering his mouth and nose and his hood up, so I could only see his eyes and his forehead”.

“It was very scary,” she said.

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Several police cars were parked outside a terraced house in Viola Avenue on Sunday evening. Police officers searching the property were seen leaving with a bag of evidence.

Members of the public gathered nearby while neighbours could be seen peering out their windows at the scene below.

Nemer Salem, who lives about 50m down the same road, said he sped up when he heard a man shouting racist slurs out of a window on Saturday night as he was walking past at around 8pm.

The 24-year-old from Syria, who lived in Kuwait before coming to London six years ago, moved to the area recently, said: “He started saying some crazy things about Muslims and just shut the window and went inside. I’m a Muslim and I got a little bit worried.”

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