LONDON 

A man was shouting "I want to kill Muslims" as he stabbed another man at a London railway station, reported local media citing various witnesses.

The suspected aggressor was arrested at Forest Hill railway station in south-east London on Monday, .

According to the witnesses cited by the Sky News website, the man had scanned through the seats at the tube station shouting: "I'm going to kill me a Muslim, I'm going to kill me a Muslim."

One of the witnesses Met-Kastrati wrote on Twitter: “A massacre in #foresthill station a man shouting who is Muslim I want to kill a muslim stabs several times a Muslim passenger, no reason.”

“The attacker shouted 'Who is Muslim, I want to kill a Muslim' and approached the guy sitting with his wife on the first carriage," the tweet read.

The attacker also chased other passengers outside the station with a knife, according to the witnesses.

In a statement after the incident British Transport Police (BTP) said one person had indeed been arrested.

"But at this time, we are not treating it as terrorism-related,” the statement read