In and around the borough market area. it is often the case when incidents like this take place nick, people look for one another. that is right. is not exactly clear what exactly is happening here? we are taking in families with kids. they have been absolutely shattered and they are nervous and some of them are crying. in these days, you need somebody with a good heart trying to help as much as you can. for every bad person out there, there are a thousand or million of people which would try and help as many people as they can.
Are out here that they need to leave as soon as possible. we ve seen people pushed out of the cordoned area by the police as well. they are very, very serious about what happened tonight and very serious about conducting their work, getting all of the civilians out and moving in as many forces as they can. again, that includes the regular police and armed police and flying squads that they ve had here. police are armed with automatic weapons. that includes first responders, emergency medical personnel as well as the fire department. so a very, very large incident has taken place here in fairly central london here tonight and, again, a lot of authorities here on the scene, ana. how far from where you are is london bridge and then put that into perspective from there to this borough market area? reporter: absolutely, ana. i ll get out of your way again
We re closing, cordoning this borough market area. if you re watching on the map. which is very close to london bridge. are you able to surmise anything from that? reporter: there could be a number of explanations for that. i don t want to get too much into it. it could be, it is all just speculation. it could be that potentially, witnesses saw somebody fleeing in that direction. it could be there are concerns about something happening. in area. it could be that it is a difficult area to monitor or perhaps see into so she wanted to clear it out in case anybody else was fleeing the scene. it is too early to say. it is not unusual in these cases when it is a round of particular target for areas in the surrounding area to be cleared out. it could be for law enforcement to have areas to be set up. so again, really no information. lots of reasons that could be the case. not unusual. we saw it during a number of attacks in europe with evacuations.
Threat level that this country had been on and had been reduced just a week ago. we ve also been seen live imagery coming from the borough market area as we speak of swat teams, police swat teams, getting geared up, getting ready and it would seem to stage some kind of raid. some kind of break into some building there leading us to the presumption that perhaps please think there is somebody of interest in that area leading us to remember what the chief of police had said just a short time ago that they believe that they have all the individuals who were involved in the attack in their custody, killed. they left open the possibility that there could be more out there. there is police activity as we speak in the borough market area where in london the terror attack happened.
Also borough market area where there are a lot of shops, restaurants, markets, a lot of people. they work their way about four or five blocks stabbing people and in some instances going into restaurants until they were fought back by some individuals and then the real fight backing from police. that s when there are rounds of automatic rifle fire. we saw emergency police vehicles, swat team swarming over the area, helicopters in the area as well as boats along the river zeroing in on the individuals. they did get all three, they killed them. in the process they have to empty that area of civilians and citizens. something i have never seen in my 12 years here in london. they have to walk the civilians