stretched. nevertheless, we will all do absolutely everything we can with our partners to protect londoners in our city. now is the time once again for london to stand together to face those who seek to divide us. thank you. i can take a couple of questions. was this immediately considered a terrorist attack? given the methodology and given what was occurring, what s happened, the tragic incidents across the country, this had all the hallmarks of a terrorist incident. that s why the counterterrorism command were called out to investigate. can you give us details of how the suspect was detained by members of the public in. i think there s been an awful lot of images put out by the media when he was detained. it seem he was very quickly and calmly given over to the police and put into custody. as i said, i think that was commendable by members of the community who must have been incredibly shaken and incredibly
there, that belt, that fake suicide belt worn by the man in the foreground in that picture. but police say they shot and killed three suspects in borough market within eight minutes of receiving the initial emergency call at 10:08 p.m. local time. here is the latest update from the police. we re treating this as a terrorist incident and a full investigation is already under way, led by london s counterterrorism command. you will understand that our knowledge of the incident is still growing but at the moment what we understand is as follows. at eight minutes past 10:00 last night we began to receive reports that a vehicle had struck pedestrians on london bridge. the vehicle continued to drive from london bridge to borough market. the suspects left the vehicle, attempted to stab a number of people, including an on-duty british transport police officer
services to continue this operation. this investigation, as i ve said, is led by the counterterrorism command and we d ask for the public s help. anybody who has images or film from the incident tonight, perhaps those in the area, up load it to ukpoliceimageappeal and you ll find that on various news feeds. and, of course, our thoughts are with those who are involved and those concerned about loved ones in the area. they should contact our casualty bureau. if you re worried about someone in the area 800961233. looking forward, we are, of course, reviewing our plans of policing across london and people can expect to see more police resources across the capital. finally, i d ask the public to
isis and there is one message for them, to stay home and launch attacks. the operating assumption here is that this is an act of terrorism. this investigation is now going to be led by counterterrorism command known as so-15. they are one of the most capable counterterrorism outfits in the world. they work very closely with mi-5. they will be going through all sorts of cc-tv, witness statements and investigating this with great intensity. their biggest concern right now, obviously, is this over. they were not commit tal about that. they didn t say whether they have full confidence that this terrorist event is over. it doesn t look like it s over yet. christiane amanpour is with us. you ve heard the spokesman for the london metropolitan police commander harrington say they are assuming they are working
derek byrd went on the rampage, so today he has full experience with this kind of thing in seems as if he was a witness of this attack. we are told that you can see from our position, he was actually here at the scene when this incident occurred, so we heard that from scotland yard just a short time ago, they held a news conference to update us, and this is what they had to say. since 2:40 this afternoon, we ve responded to an incident in parliament square and the scene has declared this a terrorist incident. although we remain open-minded to the motive, a full counterterrorism investigation is already underway. this is led by the met counterterrorism command. at this stage i will confirm what happened but i will not speculate. we received a number of different reports which included a person in the river, car and collision with pedestrians, and a man armed with a knife. officers were ready in there