Attack at London Bridge
Fucking hell... this is so near to where i used to live..
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/03/europe/london-bridge-incident/index.html
(CNN)Police in London were dealing with what appeared to be a coordinated terror attack on at least two locations late Saturday night, after a van mowed down pedestrians on London Bridge and a separate but simultaneous knife attack was reported in a cafe nearby.
British Prime Minister Theresa May said authorities were dealing with a "terrible incident" and London's Metropolitan Police Service said incidents at London Bridge and nearby Borough Market were being treated as terrorism.
It was the third terror attack to strike the UK this year, after a man drove a car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge in March and the bomb attack on an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester two weeks ago.
Latest developments
• Metropolitan Police said the vehicle hit pedestrians on the bridge at 10:08 p.m. (5:08 p.m. ET).
• "Armed officers responded and shots have been fired" in Borough Market, police tweeted. There were no further details about the gunshots.
• British Prime Minister Theresa May said the "terrible incident in London is being treated as a potential act of terrorism," according to a statement.
• The Prime Minister will chair a meeting of the Government's Cobra emergency committee -- her top security advisers -- Sunday.
• US President Donald Trump has been briefed by the national security team, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said. Trump tweeted: "Whatever the United States can do to help out in London and the U. K., we will be there - WE ARE WITH YOU. GOD BLESS!
• London's Metropolitan Police said a separate incident in the Vauxhall area of London was not connected to the events on the bridge and at the market.
A witness on the bridge told CNN the van mowed down pedestrians as it sped south across the bridge, leaving bodies lying in the roadway.
Another witness, who was in the cafe, said a man with a "massive knife" entered the restaurant at Borough Market, just south of the bridge, and stabbed two people inside. The patrons sheltered in the basement and police then arrived at the scene, the witness said. The condition of the stabbed people was not known.
Mark Roberts, the witness on the bridge, said the van was traveling south across the River Thames at a high rate of speed and was swerving as it struck several people, knocking one person "about 20 feet into the air."
The van swerved into oncoming lanes before hitting a bus stop and coming to a stop, Roberts said.
"Within my line of sight, there were five or six people on the ground that were not moving," he said. "It looked to me that the van was aiming at the people."