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London (AFP) – Armed police raided Sony Music's offices in London on Friday after two people were stabbed in what the company called a heated argument between two kitchen workers.
The panicked employees were evacuated from the large office building, which is also home to Warner Music Group, and police said both victims were arrested.
"Two members of the catering team were involved in a violent altercation," Sony Music said in a statement.
The London Metropolitan Police announced that she had been called around 11:00 am (11:00 GMT), sending gun controllers and emergency medical officers and evacuating the staff as a precaution.
"Two men were found wounded by a stab and both were arrested at the scene of the crime because they were suspected of causing serious bodily harm," he said. organization in a statement.
"The men were taken to the hospital where they stayed and their wounds were found to be non-fatal."
Maria Afolabi, a 25-year-old financial analyst at Warner, said the first problem she had encountered was the outbreak of the fire alarm.
While she was coming out of the building, she saw a Sony staff member in tears and armed police rushing down the stairs.
"We did not know what it was – they had huge weapons and were running up," she told AFP.
An unidentified Sony employee told the Press Association news agency that the kitchen staff, employed by a catering company, "ran to continue" and "mutilated".
The street was briefly cordoned off during the incident.
The neighborhood is in the High Street Kensington shopping district and Sony Music is across the street from the Daily Mail newspaper.
Trish Ellis, personal assistant of The Mail on Sunday newspaper and witness to the incident, told PA: "Armed policemen were moving by more than six people at a time, and there were more and more of them, but they seemed keep people in the building.
"Gradually, they started releasing people in dozens, twenties."
