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London Bridge incident: Armed police respond as ‘several people mown down’ by vehicle - June 2017

anon5422159

3 Jun '17

Desperately tragic and sad - and close to home, given that this happened on the daily route to work of many on this forum.

anon5422159

3 Jun '17

Another incident in Borough Market. And another in Vauxhall.

RachaelDunlop

3 Jun '17

I’d suggest people follow the Met Police on Twitter and refrain from speculation. All the facts will reveal themselves in due course, as always.

Wonderfully, Twitter is full of people who live in the area offering beds and meals for people stranded.

anon5422159

3 Jun '17

God forbid we ever need to heed this advice, ourselves:

anon5422159

5 Jun '17

Progress made in identifying the perpetrators and their many accomplices:

One of the attackers shouted “this is for Allah” as he knifed a man near a pub - while the Islamic State militant group claimed its fighters carried out the attack.

The group is said to have urged extremists to run over civilians in a poster released over the weekend featuring a knife, handgun and lorry urging radicals to “gain benefit from Ramadan”.

The three men, wearing fake suicide bomb vests, were shot dead by eight officers outside a pub after police opened fire with an “unprecedented” hail of 50 bullets, while a bystander was also shot.

Officers say they know the identities of the men who carried out the attack and will release the names “as soon as operationally possible”.

Scotland Yard said seven women and five men aged between 19 and 60 were arrested under the Terrorism Act in Barking on Sunday. A 55-year-old man was later released without charge.

PennieH

5 Jun '17

There is also a useful looking app called citizenAID (http://citizenaid.org/) which helps to guide you through a major incident, using Run, Hide, Tell but also adding techniques for prioritising patients, using appropriate first aid etc. It was featured on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme this morning.