A man in his twenties has been stabbed in broad daylight less than 300 metres from where soldier Lee Rigby was executed on Wednesday afternoon.

Police treated him at the scene in central Woolwich but Scotland Yard said the violent assault is not linked to the terror attack last week.

The person was stabbed at 4pm in Wellington Street – across the road from where Lee Rigby was murdered – and he is not thought to have suffered life-threatening injuries.

Hours earlier the family of murdered British soldier Lee Rigby paid an emotional visit to the scene where he was hacked to death close to Woolwich Barracks.

A group of young soldiers also arrived to pay their respects to Drummer Rigby, solemnly saluting the site where he met his death.

Many of the young men carried red and white hackles, famously worn by the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, of which Drummer Rigby was a treasured member.

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: ‘The victim is a man in his mid 20s. His injuries are not thought to be life threatening. He will be taken to hospital.

‘This incident happened geographically very close to where Lee Rigby died, but we do not believe what happened is linked to Lee’s murder or any issues associated with it.’

There have been no arrests.

Initially today’s stabbing horrified people as it was feared the attack may be linked to the killing, which has shocked the world.

The streets wee filled with people who came to pay their respects.

Lee Rigby was hacked to death by two attackers in the same street on Wednesday, also in broad daylight.

Michael Adebolajo, 28, and his alleged accomplice Michael Adebowale, 22, are believed to have run down the off-duty British soldier with a Vauxhall Tigra as he walked back to the Woolwich Barracks, crushing his body against a road sign.

Last respects: Soldiers salute murdered British soldier Lee Rigby at the site where he met his death last week.

Round of applause: Soldiers gave a show of hands as they viewed the ever-increasing volume of floral tributes to Drummer Lee Rigby, and placed further flowers at the site where he died

Tribute: Many of the soldiers carried red and white hackles, which are famously worn by members of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers

Witnesses said the terror suspects then ‘hacked and chopped’ at his body like ‘crazed animals’, before dragging his corpse into the middle of the road leaving a trail of blood.

As they apparently tried to decapitate him they were chanting: ‘this is what God would have wanted’.

A blood-soaked man believed to be Adebolajo, who was still holding a number of weapons in his red-stained hands, then ranted on camera in a clear London accent: ‘You people will never be safe. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.’

In memory: Members of the armed forces place floral tributes in Woolwich, south east London at the site where Drummer Lee Rigby died

England’s finest: A cross of St George – the patron saint of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers – is draped over the floral tributes

Incident: The victim was attacked just 300 metres from where Lee Rigby was murdered on Wednesday (pictured today)

Suspects: Michael Adebolajo, 28, and Michael Adebowale, 22, remain under arrest after being shot by armed police on Wednesday

Proud: Lee Rigby with (left to right), his wife Rebecca Rigby, sisters Sara McClure and Chelsea Rigby, Lee Rigby and his mother and stepfather, Lyn and Ian Rigby

Proud: Drummer Lee Rigby, circled, with his army colleagues in 2010 in a training exercise at Hounslow Barracks

Picture: This image was the first to emerge on Twitter, showing people close to the soldier’s dead body while police hang over the men they have just shot, the same street as today’s stabbing

Within 20 minutes armed officers arrived and the fundamentalists charged at them wielding firearms, knives and a machete.

Police opened fire, taking the pair down with up to eight bullets. The suspects remain under armed guard in two separate London hospitals.

Four days after he died his bereft family arrived at the spot where he died and struggled to cope with what they saw.

Drummer Rigby’s mother Lyn, stepfather Ian and estranged wife Rebecca looked at the thousands of tributes in Woolwich and left a balloon from his two-year-old son Jack saying ‘Dad in a million’.

The relatives arrived at the place where he was killed at 12.40pm. They hugged and comforted each other before crossing the road to look at the spot where he was murdered on Wednesday.

One clutched a teddy bear, while others held baskets of flowers which they left at the scene. They then spent a few moments in reflection, still clutching each other.

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