Sudanese asylum seeker Badradeen on Friday went on a mass stabbing rampage injuring six at a 91-room hotel in Glasgow.
Speaking to LBC, an eyewitness Sean said "I was sleeping and I heard noises, loud noises: a woman screaming, a man screaming for help. But I couldn't see from my window what was going on.
"But I could see people standing there looking towards the hotel. So what happened was I pressed the lift but there was blood so I took the stairs. I came down and in the reception hall, there was blood everywhere on the floor.
"I saw one of them at reception got stabbed behind the reception area. Then when I went out of the entrance there was when another receptionist that got stabbed. I called my mum and told her immediately not to come down from the room."
Another asylum seeker Daniel Redhead said he had gone to the Park Inn Hotel to pick up some tobacco from a friend at the time of the attack.
"My friend was screaming help me, help me," Readhead said. "I saw him trying to fight the guy off as he was stabbing him. The man's face was calm. He wasn't even angry. He left my friend there and stabbed another man on the step. There was blood everywhere, so much blood."
The Park Inn Glasgow owned by the Radisson chain have been housing asylum seekers since April.
One eyewitness a delivery driver said, "The hotel is housing refugees during the coronavirus. I went into the hotel and a guy had stabbed the receptionist and maintenance guy.
"He then ran back up to a room. I was trying to stem the blood of the maintenance guy when the armed police rushed in and went up to his room and shot the guy. It was absolute carnage.
"I was on the floor trying to hold the guy, the maintenance guy - a big puncture wound. It was absolutely horrific."
A video circulating on social media shows a male police officer lying on the floor outside the hotel after being stabbed in the leg with another man sitting on the stairs appearing to hold a bleeding wound on his neck.
Nicholas, 27, was staying in the hotel and said: "I heard people screaming. When I went down to the reception there was blood everywhere. Two of the receptionists had been stabbed, both males.
"There was a man who was holding his waist. I told them to stay calm and not worry. I saw another receptionist who was lying on the stairs, they'd been stabbed.
"There were two police officers so I told them what happened. After I came out from the hotel I heard people say the attacker's still in the hotel but I didn't come across him.
"When I was out of the hotel for ten minutes one of the police officers came out with blood on his face, he had been stabbed. My mum's still in our room - I've told her not to come out"
Siraj, 22 an asylum seeker from Yeman and a friend of the attacker told Mail Online, "He said that he was going to attack two guys in the room next to his because they're were making noise to deliberately annoy him. I said 'No No No' and that it was just that the hotels walls were thin and it was just noise."
He said Badradeen had told him: "No. They hate me. And I hate them. I am going to stab them."
Siraj said he didn't think then that Badradeen would carry out the attack. But that he made a report to the Hotel supervisor.
"The next morning at around 9.30 the hotel talked to me and took down the details of what he had said he was going to do," Sirah said. "I then went to sleep I was only woken up by the fire alarm and then when I came down I just saw the blood everywhere. I couldn't believe he had done it."
One of Badradeen’s friends says they saw him minutes after the attack - he was holding a knife in his hand and was covered in blood. They asked him what happened and he was cold, replying that everything was okay.
According to Steve Johnson, Assistant Chief Constable of Police Scotland, "Police were on the scene within two minutes. A man was shot by armed police.
"Six other men are in hospital receiving treatment, including a 42-year-old police officer [Constable David Whyte]. The officer's family are aware and being supported. The other men in hospital are aged 17, 18, 20, 38 and 53. Our thoughts are with the families of those who are injured, including our colleague."
This carnage came just six days after three men were murdered in a Reading park in a suspected terror attack.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said in a statement: "While such a serious incident is rare in Scotland it is another reminder of the courage and professionalism of our police officers who are willing to run towards danger in order to protect the lives of others."
Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a tweet said, "Deeply saddened by the terrible incident in Glasgow, my thoughts are with all the victims and their families. Thank you to our brave emergency services who are responding."