Man appears in court charged with murder after London knife attack

Flowers are left near the scene of a knife attack in Russell Square in London, Britain August 4, 2016. REUTERS/Neil Hall

LONDON (Reuters) - A 19-year-old man appeared in court on Saturday charged with the murder of a U.S. woman during a knife attack in central London this week that left five others wounded, British media reported. Zakaria Bulhan, a Norwegian man of Somali origin, was detained pending trial, charged with the murder of 64-year-old tourist Darlene Horton, the BBC said. Bulhan was also charged with five counts of attempted murder. Armed police were called late on Wednesday after a man began attacking people in London's Russell Square, a park near the site of a 2005 suicide bombing. Police said there was no evidence Wednesday's attack was terrorism-related. A British man who was stabbed in the stomach suffered serious injuries, police said. Four others - an American man, a man and a woman from Australia and an Israeli woman - suffered stab wounds but were released from hospital. (Reporting by Andy Bruce; Editing by Gareth Jones)