UK - Terror attacks at London Bridge, Borough Market; 11 confirmed dead, incl. 3 suspects; many injuries. 3 June 2017

[gregjrichards]

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The incident at #Vauxhall is a stabbing and is not connect to the incidents at #LondonBridge & #BoroughMarket

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At 0025hrs 4/6/17 the incidents at #LondonBridge & #BoroughMarket were declared as terrorist incidents.

 

[matou]

Metropolitan Police‏Verified account @metpoliceuk [video=twitter;871152151787171840]https://twitter.com/metpoliceuk/status/871152151787171840[/video]More



At 0025hrs 4/6/17 the incidents at #LondonBridge & #BoroughMarket were declared as terrorist incidents.

 

[skibaboo]

Witness told reporter on Sky news he saw 5 men armed with knives about a foot long, at a restaurant. 1 inside, stabbed a waitress. 4 others outside. This was at borough market.

 

[zencompass]

"RIVER THAMES
Two police boats are on the River Thames and working with RNLI lifeboats to evacuate people. They were also reportedly looking for people who may have been thrown off the bridge."

http://news.sky.com/story/london-terror-attack-what-we-know-is-happening-in-three-areas-10903629

 

[cuffem]

Prime Minister needs to call in military to patrol markets and train stations like they do in Belgium.I think I just read police had batons in response to attacks?I know some UK police do not carry guns,they need to.

 

[skibaboo]

Confirmation this is being treated as a terrorist incident. Met police (sky news)

 

[MaryG12]

Prayers to all the victims and their families.

 

[ZaZara]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...ent-armed-police-respond-several-people-mown/

Knifeman shouted 'this is for Allah' - reports

An eyewitness on London Bridge, told the BBC he saw three men stabbing people indiscriminately, shouting "this is for Allah".

He told how he saw a van driving on the pavement with people running out of the way, before three men got out.

"They literally just started kicking them, punching them, they took out knives. It was a rampage really," he said.

"They headed down towards Southwark Cathedral towards the bar, and starting running at people.

"People at the bar started fighting back. then the three of them decided to make their way up to the bridge

"A woman was staring at them and they started stabbing her.

"Throughout the whole way across the bridge, there were people littered across bleeding. People were trying to help each other."

He added he had heard them shouting "this is for Allah".


BBM

 

[ZaZara]

[video=twitter;871153845694607360]https://twitter.com/guardian/status/871153845694607360[/video]


#Vauxhall is an unrelated stabbing.

 

[matou]

Roads&Transport MPS
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[frisson]

I hope this does not come across as trite in light of horrible tragedy. It is inspired by greg's siggy.
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[gregjrichards]

"RIVER THAMES
Two police boats are on the River Thames and working with RNLI lifeboats to evacuate people. They were also reportedly looking for people who may have been thrown off the bridge."

http://news.sky.com/story/london-terror-attack-what-we-know-is-happening-in-three-areas-10903629

There are reports of a person jumping into the river to escape the terrorists on social media - please consider this as rumour and not confirmed.

 

[matou]

London Ambulance
✔@Ldn_Ambulance

Our latest statement about #LondonBridge incident. We've sent a number of resources to scene & more info will follow http://bit.ly/2rRq9aC

 

[dotr]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/03/london-bridge-everything-know-far/

Metropolitan Police‏Verified account @metpoliceuk

At 0025hrs 4/6/17 the incidents at #LondonBridge & #BoroughMarket were declared as terrorist incidents.

Eyewitnesses spoke of there being two or three masked men, who got out of the van and started attacking people with knives. An eyewitness, Eric, told the BBC that he heard shouts of "this is for Allah".

A second incident is believed to have taken place at the Borough Bistro, in Borough Market. Eyewitnesses have told of seeing a man being stabbed by someone wearing a red hoody. The attacker then walked calmly away, and gunshots were heard near the Brindisi tapas restaurant.
The BBC is reporting that a security guard who works across multiple bars and pubs in Borough Market claims to have seen a man with a canister strapped to his abdomen. Stressing that the reports were unverified, the news channel claims the man saw the attackers after receiving a call from a colleague in another bar who said people had been stabbed.




The security guard described people running away screaming from three men, one wearing a red and black top. He claimed one man had a canister taped to his abdomen. The man and his colleagues tried to throw chairs at the three attackers, who were going in and out of different bars, before helping to evacuate the area.
Drinkers inside a pub have told of the police rushing in, and telling everyone to get on the ground. They were then told to run away from the area.

 

[Spellbound]

https://twitter.com/metpoliceuk

Marine 2 and Marine 3 are part of the response to the #London Bridge incident. Working with @RNLI lifeboats to evacuate the public.

At 0025hrs 4/6/17 the incidents at #LondonBridge & #BoroughMarket

The incident at #Vauxhall is a stabbing and is not connect to the incidents at #LondonBridge & #BoroughMarket

 

[matou]

BBC witness: Woman entered into a pub bleeding and it appeared that her throat had been cut. She appeared to be in her early 20s.

 

[frisson]

"FOR ALLAH?" That is despicable . and clueless. and evil just plain evil. Evil has nothing to do with Allah. I feel sick

 

[matou]

BBC witness: Another woman was receiving CPR just outside of the pub. Pub is the Mudlot Pub (? spelling).

 

[matou]

Oh God. The long knives. They were trying to decapitate people IMO.

 

[Snick1946]

My son got back from London last week. He said he was on this bridge a bit more than a week ago, also on the bridge where the earlier attack took place. He said there are NO traffic barriers set up on either bridge! You'd think authorities would have done that at least on the other bridge but apparently not.

This is not confirmed , just his recollection. If so what are they thinking? Don't scare the tourists, what??