the ongoing operation is led by the mets working closely with british transport police, city of london police in london ambulance and fire services. at this stage, we believe, that sadly, six people have died in addition to the three attackers shot by police. they are at least 20 casualties taken 26 hospitals across london and the numbers are still rising. i'd like to repeat our request for londoners to avoid the areas of london bridge and borough market to enable the emergent services to continue this operation. this investigation, as i said, is led by the counterterrorism commands and we ask for help from the public in the following ways: anyone who has images or film from the incident tonight, perhaps people in the area, upload it to w ww .-dot uk police image .-dot uk and you'll find that on various newsfeeds. of course, our thoughts are with