NYPD Increases Security in Wake of London Terrorist Attack

The New York Police Department released a statement Wednesday evening to notify New Yorkers of an increase in security throughout the city. 

"Based not on information that such facilities have been targeted in New York City but in an abundance of caution, the NYPD has increased coverage of the British consulate, military recruiting stations, and other locations in the city as a result of the fatal attack today on an active serving British soldier near the Royal Artillery Barracks at Woolwich Common in southeast London," the statement read. 

Two men attacked a British soldier Wednesday, hitting him with a car and then stabbing him with a meat cleaver and knife. The men then left the soldier's body in the middle of a southeastern London road. 

"We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you until you leave us alone," one of the attackers said in a video aired by ITN. "The only reasons we killed this man this is because Muslims are dying daily. This British soldier is an eye for an eye, a tooth for tooth."

British Prime David Cameron called the incident a terrorist attack."We will never buckle to terror," Cameron wrote on Twitter.