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London incidents: armed police respond at London Bridge, Vauxhall and Borough Market – live London attacks: 'multiple casualties' after incidents at London Bridge, Vauxhall and Borough Market – live
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Prime minister Theresa May, who has been campaigning in the general election, was returning to Downing Street to receive further briefings from security officials, No 10 has confirmed.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer said US president Donald Trump has been briefed on the incident by his national security team.
The US president has recently tweeted:
We need to be smart, vigilant and tough. We need the courts to give us back our rights. We need the Travel Ban as an extra level of safety!
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Summary of what we know so far
Police are responding to reports of at least three incidents across parts of London
The incidents are on London Bridge, Borough market and Vauxhall
The first report was of a van ploughing into pedestrians on London Bridge
Witnesses say the van was reported to have swerved onto the pavement and there have been unconfirmed reports of gunfire
A second incident is ongoing in Borough Market where there are reports of multiple stabbings
Police say they are responding to a third event at Vauxhall
Downing Street says the prime minister has been informed of a major incident
Police are urging people to stay away from the affected areas
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Police have established cordons around the scene at London Bridge. Police are continuing to urge members of the public to reach areas of safety.
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The Metropolitan police are urging people in the areas of the incident in Vauxhall, London Bridge and Borough Market to get to safer areas away from the scenes.
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Guardian journalist Kate Lyon has spoken to witnesses at the scene at London Bridge, who report stabbings have taken place:
Lara Al-Ostta was having drinks with a friend at the Old Thameside Inn underneath London Bridge when she said people came running into the pub and telling everyone to run away because “people are stabbing each other”.
Al-Ostta said she ended running up on to London Bridge – and she and her friend were told by the police to run away. While on the bridge Al-Ostta took video, seen by the Guardian, of at least three injured people on the bridge, being tended to by emergency services.
“I saw people moving, but we thought fuck this is a serious thing,” said Al-Ostta.
Stephen Tull, who is homeless, was under the bridge at the time of the attack when he heard a bang. He says he ran up on to the bridge to help and saw one man who jumped out of the van and began attacking people.
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Reuters have posted footage from the police cordon at London Bridge.
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The police say officers are also responding to an incident in Vauxhall.The police say officers are also responding to an incident in Vauxhall.
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Metropolitan police have confirmed reports of stabbings at Borough Market, where they say armed police have fired shots.Metropolitan police have confirmed reports of stabbings at Borough Market, where they say armed police have fired shots.
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Journalists at the scene at London Bridge have been removed from the area by armed police.Journalists at the scene at London Bridge have been removed from the area by armed police.
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Theresa May is aware of the incidents going on in London tonight.Theresa May is aware of the incidents going on in London tonight.
A Downing Street spokesman said: “The Prime Minister is in contact with officials and is being regularly updated on the incident at London Bridge.”A Downing Street spokesman said: “The Prime Minister is in contact with officials and is being regularly updated on the incident at London Bridge.”
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There are already offers of help coming in for those around the area of the attack, with one person offering minicab rides:There are already offers of help coming in for those around the area of the attack, with one person offering minicab rides:
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Will Heaven, a Spectator journalist who was passing London Bridge minutes after the incident, has told Sky News what he saw: “It was about 10 past 10. I was in the back of an Uber cab driving south over London Bridge.
“Suddenly on the left hand side on the bridge there was somebody down on the pavement with a small crowd around them, clearly concerned. I thought someone had collapsed.
“We drove a little further over the bridge. There was another person in the road itself. The penny dropped that something quite serious was happening.
“The traffic came to a standstill. The Uber driver said something bad is happening here. We could hear sirens coming.”
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Footage is emerging of the public reaction to the incident on London Bridge. People in a bar were ordered to get back from doors and take cover as it unfolded.
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The Metropolitan police say they are also responding to a second incident at Borough Market.
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Our picture editor has sourced an image of the van thought to have struck pedestrians on London Bridge this evening.
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Latika Bourke is also reporting injured people being treated on the footpath of Southwark Street.
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Latika Bourke, a journalist from Fairfax Media, has posted footage of people fleeing London Bridge as emergency services continue their work:
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Police are treating injured people and carrying them away at the end of Thrale Street.
Members of the public were told by police to “run as fast as they could” westbound.
Nick Archer, who was in the London Bridge area, told Sky News: “We came out (of a bar) on to the road and looked and looked to my left and there as a guy, I thought he was just drinking but he was lying on the floor.
“And then a couple of seconds later, about three police vans flew past.
“He looked in a bad way.”
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Holly Jones, a BBC reporter at the bridge when the incident happened, said a van had swerved off the road into a crowd of pedestrians.
“A white van driver came speeding – probably about 50mph – veered off the road into the crowds of people who were walking along the pavement,” she told BBC News.
“He swerved right round me and then hit about five or six people. He hit about two people in front of me and then three behind.”
I’d say there are about four severely injured people. They all have paramedics assisting them at the moment,” she said.
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A journalist working for the Spectator magazine has reported seeing armed police and injured people in the area – with social media showing a large number of emergency service vehicles at the scene.
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London Bridge has been closed after an incident on Saturday night, after witnesses said a van had hit pedestrians.
There are reports of casualties, with a witness telling the BBC that van had veered off the road and struck people.