The man was seen stumbling down West Nile Street in Glasgow at around 4pm yesterday (Picture: Twitter/Stevelovesart)

This is the horrifying moment a man brandishing two knives appears to ‘slit his own throat’ in the middle of a busy street in Glasgow.

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The man was filmed walking down West Nile Street in central Glasgow yesterday with two knives.

He later died from his injuries after witnesses described how he ‘calmly slit his own throat’ in front of terrified children.

Footage taken by an office worker in a nearby building appears to show the man holding something in his hands and stumbling across the pavement.


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The worker can be heard gasping in horror as another man says: ‘What’s he doing? There’s a woman walking right past him. What’s she doing?’



Police arrive at the scene and appear to pepper-spray him and then tackle him to the ground.

Someone can then be heard saying in the footage: ‘They need to get him quickly … just grab him before he collapses.

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Crime scene here on West Nile Street in Glasgow city centre. Area taped off as police deal with ongoing incident. pic.twitter.com/hvhFOjSLeL — Connor Gillies (@ConnorGillies) April 13, 2017

‘They need to be careful, he’s sitting with a knife. OH MY GOD he’s still going.’

Witnesses said a family with young children were caught in the middle of the horrifying scene at around 4pm yesterday, as the man started ‘slashing at his neck with a Stanley knife’.

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Student Shaun Keegan, 29, who saw the drama unfold, told The Sun: ‘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 just walking straight ahead.’

The 29-year-old said he first spotted something was wrong when he saw a traffic warden sprinting down the street.

Incident in #Glasgow. Conflicting reports of man cutting his own throat, to attacker with Stanley knife or axe. #EasterWeekend kicks off! pic.twitter.com/t1HzjCGvxS — Steve loves art (@Stevelovesart) April 13, 2017

He said: ‘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.’

The traffic warden had reportedly tried to help the man was pushed away.

Officers dressed in stab-proof vests descended on the street and the man was rushed to Glasgow Royal Infirmary where he died of his injuries.

An axe and a knife were removed from the scene following the attack.