Burka-Clad London Terror Suspect: ‘Don’t Touch Me!’

A terrorism suspect wearing a burka was shot and taken to a hospital after British police thwarted what they dubbed an “active plot” Thursday evening in northwest London.

The woman, who is in her 20s and whose name has not been released, was hospitalized after being shot during a counterterrorism raid that left her in serious but stable condition, according to The Telegraph. The raid took place inside a home on a residential street just after 7 p.m. local time; neighbors reported seeing the woman carried out on a stretcher while clad in her burka.

“The woman was being arrested, she was on the floor wearing a long dress and covered in a head scarf. She was shouting, ‘Do not touch me, do not touch my body.'”

“The woman was being arrested, she was on the floor wearing a long dress and covered in a head scarf. She was shouting, ‘Do not touch me, do not touch my body,'” said neighbor Ruth Haile, according to The Telegraph.

“She was injured, she had a wound on her right side and doctors were trying to help her. There was a bandage on the wound. She was lying in the street and there were about five or six police around her, some of them were carrying guns,” Haile continued.

Scotland Yard officers said five people were arrested at the house during the raid, on a suspicion of engaging in terror plots. One suspect was arrested at a separate location.

“An armed entry was necessary due to the nature of the intelligence that we were dealing with, and involved armed officers firing CS into the address,” said Deputy Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, the senior national coordinator for counterterror policing, according to The Telegraph.

“During the course of that operation one of the subjects of that operation, a woman, was shot by police. She remains in hospital,” Basu continued. “Her condition is serious but stable. Because of her condition she has not yet been arrested. We are monitoring her condition closely.”

Basu expressed his optimism that these six current arrests “contained the threats that they posed” to the people of London.

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The one suspect arrested at a separate location in Whitehall was a 27-year-old man harboring “offensive weapons” on his person. Sources told ABC News that the man’s name was Khalid Mohamed Omar Ali, although this information hasn’t been publicly confirmed by authorities.

“He remains in our custody having been arrested for Terrorism Act Offenses and possession of offensive weapons,” Basu said, adding, “and there are two ongoing searches at addresses in London as part of that investigation,” according to NPR.

In 2016, British police carried out approximately 260 arrests in connection with terrorism suspicions. Of those 260 arrests, 96 people ultimately faced charges.

These latest arrests took place just one month after 52-year-old Khalid Masood carried out a deadly attack in London near the U.K. Parliament. That attack killed four people and injured several others in stabbings and a truck rampage.