DUBAI: A 61-year-old man has been arrested after allegedly threatening to kill the owner of a kosher shop in London on Tuesday.

The unnamed man is said to have entered the shop in the predominantly Jewish area of Stamford Hill, north London, brandishing a meat cleaver and a knife while shouting “where is the boss, I will kill him.”

After he was informed that the owner was not present, he ran out of the shop toward two young girls, saying “you Jews run away from here before I kill you.”

The man, who was described as white, reportedly attempted to gain entry into another kosher shop before the incident, but staff had barricaded the entrance.

Chaim Hochauser, supervisor at Shomrim, a Jewish neighborhood watch group in Stamford Hill, told the Independent that they had received frightened calls from members of the public.

"On Tuesday at just after 4pm, Shomrim in Stamford Hill responded to reports of a male making threats and brandishing a meat cleaver and a large knife, on Upper Clapton Road in Hackney E5.

"Shomrim contained the area where the suspect had fled, and liaised with local and armed police who cordoned off the area, and the suspect was subsequently arrested.”

A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said: “A 61-year-old has been arrested by police in Hackney.

“Police were called at 16:06hrs on Tuesday, 9 May, to a man armed with two knives who had threatened a shopkeeper in Upper Clapton Road, E5.

“Officers attended the location, and detained a man nearby at an address in Rossington Street.

“He was arrested on suspicion of affray and possession of an offensive weapon, and taken to a north London police station where he remains in custody. There are no reports of any injuries.”