concentrated because my colleague mo abbas is on the southern side of the bridge. they re concentrated on the northern side where i am. that s why you can clearly see the amount of police attention this has gotten. i cannot see any bodies, any casualties or anything like that. and i really can t even see the white van in question. because it is surrounded by other emergency vehicles that have flooded this scene in the last half-hour. so i have a very clear view of an incident that looks like very escalated, very dangerous incident but i can t see any vehicles that were involved in the original incident. and i spoke to some people here and they said they were walking around just on a normal saturday night in love. and they were told to run as fast as they could from the incident. that shows how high stress this city is when it comes to
not described this as a terrorist incident and there s no reason to believe pits, until now. but it is a very tense situation. an enormous amount of police resources to address this saturday night right in the heart of london. no talk of terrorism. nbc news not confirming these reports as of yet but coming from reputable sources about the incident so far. the van, the stabbings, as well as the bodies you were mentioning. can you tell us if you re on the northern end or the southern end? and can you tell us what you re seeing in terms of law enforcement? if there are any pedestrians at the moment? reporter: yes. i m at the northern end of the bridge. i m in the heart of city of london. right by monday uument station. it is just on the northern part of bridge. so right now i m standing amongst a ton of pedestrians who
about 10:08 p.m., that officers responded to reports of a vehicle that was in collision with pedestrians on london bridge. that s location number one. then they go to location number two. officers then responded to reports of stabbings in borough market, five or ten minutes from london bridge. armed officers responding, shots fired. that s location number two. then location number three, 10:45 p.m., officers now responding to an incident in the vauxhall area. so that s only about ten minutes ago. based on this timeline, what are you taking away from it? this is, again, reminiscent of what happened to westminster. we saw a vehicle that plowed people on the bridge. then you saw an assailant that left that vehicle and stabbed people, and then was shot by police. and back then, in march, it was a wednesday evening, four people were killed, including the
we do know that the second location where police have not responded to it. the first is london bridge. we presume this man is somewhere near there. perhaps what we heard as we were driving from north london to south london. this is south bank of the thames river. as i bustling area full of different shops, people go there. at night, the shops themselves are closed but there are lots of little cafes and pubs so this would have been a very, very busy area. we don t know if there was a suspect police had seen coming out of this van. if he or she, if a person were to run somewhere, that would be a good place to, for example, go. if you want to get lost into a crowd. i should admit, complete conjecture at this point. all we know at this stage is
incident in the borough market area of london, which we were the just remarking on, but also, nearby, also on london bridge in addition to that. and that there were casualties after the incident that possibly involved a van and knife injuries. again, two incidents in central london. borough market and london bridge. according to reuters. borough market on the map there. you can see in the lower left-hand side of the screen. i want to add more information coming in to us from a discussion that we at nbc news had with holly jones, who is a bbc reporter, who is on the bridge earlier. and i will just read some paraphrased notes coming from holly jones from the bbc in terms of what she told us. she said a man was arrested, shirt off. that he s been handcuffed. that he s in a police car. and this is from earlier, just within about the last hour. that holly saying she did not