responded to the incident, including ambulance crews, paramedics, advance trauma teams, london s air ambulance. now the latest number is that 30 people are being treated at five hospitals and one of the people who were injured in this was an officer who was responding to the incident. his injury came from being stabbed by one of these people as they left the vehicle once they hit the borough market area. james gagliano, one interesting detail we also learned is that those vests that so many people described as what they believed to be were suicide vests were, in their words, the police words, hoaxes. sure. and i think part of that is they wanted to appear to be more heavily ladened with death and destruction than they were. in the united states, let s say
sta stabbing people in the borough market area. this is what the mayor told me today about trying to thwart these attacks, then and now. now, the reality over the last four years, because of the fantastic work of the police and the security services, as a result of the cooperation of the communities, we have thwarted a number of attacks over the last four years, but, unfortunately, in march and in april and now today, last night, we have seen terrorists be successful. what we need to do is make sure that just like the terrorists evolving and finding new ways to harm us, to disrupt us, we have got to find involved new ways to keep us safe. so over the next few days, londoners and visitors will be seen an increased police presence that will include
we are following breaking news tonight in london where a deadly terror attack has taken place. it began on london bridge and ended in the borough market area. these pictures from the borough market where we know there were three attackers with knives who got out of the van that initially had driven on london bridge into pedestrians, careening through that area. people flying into the air, as described by eyewitnesss, and then stabbing some folks inside a restaurant in borough market. an eyewitness describing witness eing a woman stabbed in a neck d another individual stabbed these pictures are extremely disturbing but you can see just how devastating and how quickly these three attackers operated. in fact, we now have learned from police in the last hour or so when they came out with their statement that these three attackers are dead. they were killed, shot by law enforcement within eight minutes
force in some sections and we are going to take you live to that news conference that scotland yard as soon as it begins. first, let s go back to fox s senior foreign affairs correspondent greg alcott the lake is latest on a saturday night terror attack. let s talk about the imager you re talking up. the live it seems that we have been tracking for the last 25 minutes or so. yes, the borough market area that was the scene of this horrendous bloodshed last night. that was where the three attackers got out of the white van after they done their damage on london bridge and knifed patrons in restaurants and pubs and people on the street. what we are seeing now according to some folks on the scene is that the very least it s sweeping operation by police.
forward here, with the prime minister saying that. we have learned she will be chairing a so-called c.o.b.r.a. meeting, basically a meeting of top security officials, the home secretary, all the relevant police authorities here in the next few hours. and as you ve said on air over the past few hours, this is now at three different locations. it appears that the main incident was a white van plowing into a crowd of pedestrians on london bridge. the stabbings seem to be limited to the borough market area. and it s not clear at this point whether the vauxhall incident was related or not. we have learned that authorities have reopened the train station there, which might indicate that things are returning to normal. but again, no confirmation from the police. this is a fast moving, developing situation, one that according to the prime minister here in the uk is now being investigated as a potential incident or treated, pardon me, as a potential terrorism incident. if that does pan out to b