Thread by @satyaagrahindia

#Portuguese nationals #MarianaJadaugy, 24, (pictured) and #FaranaSadrudin, 49, were at the Ismaili Centre when an #Afghan refugee named locally as #AbdulBashir entered with a large #knife and fatally attacked them after seriously injuring his #English #teacher

#Lisbon #Diversity

#FaranaSadrudin was killed by the knifeman in the attack on the religious centre in Lisbon

Officers said they fired at him when he ignored orders to drop his weapon and started walking towards them. The knifeman was transported to the São José Hospital in a serious condition

Teresa Pinto added in an online tribute to Mariana: 'How cruel this world can be. Portugal opens its arms to those in need and this is the payback.

'Mariana Jadaugy, you will always be in my heart as that happy, friendly and generous woman.'

It is not yet clear what the motive for the attack was, but officials said it was an 'isolated incident'.

The brother of a witness of the attack said he had been told the knifeman turned on the victims after they tried to intervene as he stabbed his teacher

This is #AbdulBashir

In 2021, the author of the attack on the Ismaili center in Lisbon confessed that he faced "difficult living conditions" and that he communicated them to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, after losing his wife in a fire in Lesbos and being alone with the three

minor children. "Everybody tells me to wait, wait," he blurted

Omed Taeri, president of Association of Afghan Community in #Portugal, said suspect had shown 'signs of anxiety and desperation' at his daily struggle to be able to feed his children with the scarce resources he had.

But Portuguese president Marcelo Reblelo de Sousa, speaking after visiting the scene of the fatal double stabbing and speaking to the mother of the younger of the two women killed, said: 'There is nothing that justifies a criminal act.'