Police will be busy on a Saturday Night and it will be too easy to connect incidents that are not connected. Mark lobel, a colleague of mine, a bbc reporter, he is at Borough Market. What can you see and where are you . Im on Borough High Street, between Borough Station and London Bridge, north of Borough Tube Station and in the last ten Minutes Police vans have been arriving here, Ten Police Officers got out of the first one and put on helmets and took out shields, a second lot came around five minutes later. I asked if they were armed and they said they had taser is. Theres clearly an Ongoing Police incident in this area closer to London Bridge tasers. The central aim of the police is to keep the roads clear, to keep all pedestrians and cars off the roads, they are pushing. They are doing it again now. Police officers are now running further up this road carrying shields and theres clearly an ongoing incident in front of us. One eyewitness i spoke to around 15 minutes ago said that h
Near London Bridge. Tom symonds. Police have put in a large cordon. You can see the furthest blue, flashing light, a short distance from the Borough Markets area. Are market is a Farmers Market where people go for lunch. It is surrounded by bars and restaurants. It is opposite London Bridge station where people go to head home after a night out in Central London. Putting together eyewitness reports, only eyewitness reports, which can be wrong, but the eyewitnesses we spoke to say a van ploughed into people on the southern end of London Bridge, i was told by people in a pub that it was told by people in a pub that it was on the corner of the bridge, that grey, possibly four man, got out, armed with knives. Three, possible four men,. One was mediterranean in terms of skin colour and had a black and red top on and had a long knife. I asked if it was a breadknife sized weapon and the eyewitness said he felt it was a long kitchen knife. They ran towards London Bridge and, sorry, Borough Mar
Thought about, not just something they threw together tonight. The advice is sometimes a little bit different, it involves fighting back. At the official advice here is to get out of the area and tell the police. If you cannot get out, then hide. It shows they want to get that message across directly to the public because the way Police Communications work these days is to talk directly via twitter and social media to the public, and not worry about what people like me will say in reporting what the police say. Speak directly to the public and hope that people can get on with a life of a cell. Happens around them. That was our Home Affairs Correspondent talking to me earlier on. Since then we have learned from the Assistant Commissioner that six people have died in these Terror Attacks. We are at the cordon here and it is much calmer than it was a few hours ago but you can still see a lot of police down towards the end of the road. We are quite near the shard here as dawn breaks across
Dead three attackers. People should remain calm and vigilant and carrier on with their normal business. The threat level remains severe. The Prime Minister has left the Campaign Trail and returned to westminster. Shell hold a meeting of the governments Emergency Cobra Committee later this morning. On breakfast this morning well bring you the latest from the scene and keep you up to date with the investigation and reaction. Good morning from central london, where six people have been killed and several injured during the countrys second Terrorist Attack in less than two weeks. Officers responded to reports of a Vehicle Ploughing into pedestrians on London Bridge just after 10pm. Three men got out of the vehicle and started stabbing people on the bridge and at the nearby Borough Market. We will be keeping you up to date with the latest on the investigation. Counterterrorism Police Continue their work. The idiot has been cordoned off. The Prime Minister will attend a Cobra Meeting later t
Dead three attackers. People should remain calm and vigilant and carrier on with their normal business. The threat level remains severe. The Prime Minister has left the Campaign Trail and returned to westminster. Shell hold a meeting of the governments Emergency Cobra Committee later this morning. On breakfast this morning well bring you the latest from the scene and keep you up to date with the investigation and reaction. Good morning from central london, where six people have been killed and several injured during the countrys second Terrorist Attack in less than two weeks. Officers responded to reports of a Vehicle Ploughing into pedestrians on London Bridge just after 10pm. Three men got out of the vehicle and started stabbing people on the bridge and at the nearby Borough Market. We will be keeping you up to date with the latest on the investigation. Counterterrorism Police Continue their work. The idiot has been cordoned off. The Prime Minister will attend a Cobra Meeting later t