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Horrifying moment three Jihadis were shot dead after killing seven and hurting 48: Gang yell ‘This is for Allah’ after mowing down crowd on London Bridge then going on stabbing madness

By Ekin Karasin and Charlie Moore and Scott Campbell and Rachael Burford and Rod Ardehali and Joe Sheppard and Simon Holmes and Anthony Joseph and Stephanie Linning for MailOnline 22:32 BST three Jun 2017, updated 12:Eighteen BST five Jun two thousand seventeen

Seven people were killed and at least forty eight others injured in an on London Bridge and Borough Market last night
Three studs drove a white van in an ‘S form’ across the bridge at 50mph, mowing down up to twenty pedestrians
They left the vehicle and began ‘randomly stabbing’ victims with 12-inch knives in busy bars in the market
Witnesses described observing victims with their throats cut while others fought off attackers with pint glasses
Police shot dead the terrorists – one of whom was wearing an Arsenal T-shirt – within eight minutes of initial call
Today armed police raided a block of flats in Barking, east London, as a major investigation was underway
Terror attack comes just twelve days after the Manchester attack and ten weeks after the Westminster atrocity
Did you see what happened? Please email [email protected] or call two hundred three 615 387

Police are today seeking the identities of three Jihadi terrorists who were shot dead by armed police after killing seven people and injuring dozens of others in a horrific van and knife rampage through central London last night.

The boys, described as being ‘of Mediterranean origin’, mowed down up to twenty revellers as they careered across London Bridge in an ‘S form’ at 50mph before they began ‘randomly stabbing’ people in nearby Borough Market.

Today five people were reportedly arrested in an early morning raid on a block of flats in Barking, east London, as police launch a major investigation into what is the third terror attack on British soil in the last three months.

Speaking outside No ten today, Theresa May confirmed the London Bridge atrocity is not directly connected to last month’s Manchester bombing or Westminster attack in April but that all three are linked by ‘the single evil ideology of Islamist extremism’. The terror threat level remains at ‘severe’, meaning another attack is ‘very likely’.

The three attackers, who were wearing fake suicide vests, shouted ‘this is for Allah’ as they used 12-inch hunting knives to attack revellers at busy bars and restaurants in the market, sending dozens of others fleeing for their lives. One of the suspects was wearing an Arsenal football T-shirt.

Witnesses said the gang smashed pub windows and reportedly cut the throats of drinkers as civilians barricaded themselves inwards and fought off the attackers with pint glasses and chairs. One witness eyed a ‘dark-skinned’ man in a crimson tracksuit ‘calmly’ stab a man three times while another witnessed a victim being stabbed in the face.

Armed police rushed to the scene and shot dead all three suspects within eight minutes of receiving the very first emergency call and placed the area on lock down. Meantime medics wheeled away injured victims on stretchers while howling people packaged in foil blankets were evacuated from the ‘horrific’ scene.

The scene remains on lock down today as armed police and forensic officers proceed to chunk together what took place last night. The terror threat remains at severe, meaning another terror attack is considered ‘very likely’.

Witness accounts of the horrifying events commenced to emerge with revellers describing how they fought off knifemen with chairs and glasses after attackers stormed packed bars and restaurants
A hero taxi driver exposed how he attempted to knock down three guys ‘armed with 12in knives’ while another reported observing victim being stabbed in the face and chest
Dashcam footage emerged displaying the aftermath of the devastation caused by the van on London Bridge, with bystanders seen tending to victims on the side of the road
Desperate families are begging for information on loved ones feared missing after the attack, including a 16-year-old lady who failed to come back home last night
Kindhearted Londoners suggested beds, food and cups of tea to survivors as the city came together in the wake of another attack and #PrayForLondon trended on social media
Today strongly armed officers raided a plane in Barking, east London, on Sunday morning as police launched a major investigation into the third terror attack on British soil in as many months
The Prime Minister chaired a meeting of the Government’s emergency Cobra committee in Whitehall this morning and insisted in a press conference outside No ten afterwards: ‘Enough is enough’
Politicians faced calls to cancel the election next week but Mrs May confirmed it will go ahead as planned
All parties except for Ukip agreed to suspend national election campaigning today but local efforts will proceed
London Mayor Sadiq Khan condemned the ‘barbaric’ and ‘horrific’ event as ‘deliberate and cowardly’. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the attack was ‘brutal’ and ‘shocking’ in a tweet last night
President Donald Trump tweeted his support for Britain, telling ‘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!’
Ariana Grande, whose youthfull fans were targeted in the attack at Manchester Arena, confirmed the benefit concert to benefit victims will go ahead tonight as planned with her manager urging people to stand together

Speaking from the steps of No ten today, Mrs May said Britain faces a ‘fresh trend in the threat we face’ as she condemned the brutal attacks.

The Premier said there was ‘far too much tolerance’ of extreme views and vowed to stand up for ‘pluralistic British values’ that were ‘superior’ to the fanatics’ ideology. She vowed: ‘We will take on and defeat our enemies.’

Mrs May, who chaired a meeting of the emergency Cobra committee this morning, said the election campaign would resume in total tomorrow and the election on Thursday would go ahead as planned.

The official terror threat level has not been switched and remains at ‘severe’ – meaning an attack is ‘very likely’.

TERROR TIMELINE

Ten.08pm Police were called to reports of a vehicle hitting pedestrians on London Bridge

Terrorists got out of car and ran to Borough Market stabbing people

1 0.16pm Three terrorists shot dead in Borough Market

Ten.32pm London Bridge station is closed

11pm Police said another incident was happening in Vauxhall as the station was reportedly evacuated

12.25am The incidents at London Bridge and Borough market & were proclaimed as terrorist incidents

12.55am Police said the incident at Vauxhall was a stabbing and not connected to the terrorism

The PM praised the ‘superb courage and fine speed’ with which police responded to the terror attacks and condemned the use of fake suicide vests to ‘spread fright and fear’.

The terror began last night when three boys drove a van in an ‘S form’ across London Bridge shortly before Ten.10pm last night in an attempt to deliberately target pedestrians. There are unconfirmed reports that it is a B&Q and Hertz van.

An on-duty British Transport Police officer who rushed to protect bystanders was among the very first victims attacked as the attackers abandoned their vehicle and began stabbing at random.

He suffered ‘serious but not life-threatening injuries’ and his family has been informed.

Some forty eight people have been taken to five hospitals across London after the horrific attack. One of the fatalities was at London bridge, it has been reported.

‘The guys said “This is for Allah” as they left the van and attacked victims. There were certainly three people sitting at the front of the van,’ witness Eric Seguenzo told Big black cock News.

He added: ‘I thought the van was travelling on wrong side of the road, as however the brakes had failed. The white van had yellow stripes, veered to the right and people attempted to hop out the way.’

Witnesses to the terror attack heard at least twelve gunshots in the area, now believed to have been police firing at the attackers.

Ben and his wifey Natalie were in Borough Market near the Southwark Tavern. They told Big black cock Radio five Live that they eyed a ‘dark-skinned man in a crimson tracksuit’ stabbing a man.

Ben said: ‘We spotted people running away and then I eyed a man in crimson with a large blade, at a guess ten inches long, stabbing a man, about three times.

‘I was across the road about 15m away. [The attacker] was dark-skinned and had a crimson tracksuit on.

‘It looked like the man had been attempting to intervene, but there wasn’t much he could do. He was being stabbed fairly coldly and he slumped to the ground.’

Counter Terrorism Directive have launched an investigation and anybody who has photos or film of the incident have been asked to pass those to police by uploading it at www.ukpoliceimageappeal.co.uk.

‘Our thoughts are with all those involved and those responding to both incidents. Those who are worried about a loved one can contact the Casualty Bureau on eight hundred 0961 233,’ police said in a statement.

‘We are reviewing and planning to strengthen our policing stance across London over the forthcoming days, and there will be extra police and officers deployed across the Capital.

DASHCAM FOOTAGE Exposes TRAIL OF DEVASTATION ON LONDON BRIDGE AFTER VAN TERROR RAMPAGE

A taxi driver filmed the aftermath of last night’s shocking terrorist attack on London Bridge on his cab’s dash cam.

The shocking movie shows people receiving emergency treatment on the cycle lane of the south corded carriageway moments after the attack. Witnesses said the van swerved in an ‘S’ style to deliberately target pedestrians.

Taxi driver Radoslav Petrov filmed the footage as he witnessed police cars racing across the bridge on the wrong side of the road. Shortly afterwards, pedestrians ran away from the scene, heading north having been told to flee by police.

‘I would like to ask the public to remain vigilant and let us know if they see anything suspicious that causes them concern and dial nine hundred ninety nine instantly.’

Police advised people who live within the London Bridge cordon to stay somewhere else on Saturday night if they could.

One witness said: ‘No one was hurt from the van influence but as the guys got out the van they embarked kicking, punching and stabbing victims they ran over. It was a rampage.’

One of the dudes suspected of being an attacker was pictured lounging on the ground after he was shot by the police outside the Wheatsheaf pub in Borough Market. Another man was seen lounging on the ground a brief distance away.

It was earlier reported that SAS helicopters were flown in from their Hereford headquarters to hunt for the deadly terrorists.

The bridge is in lock down and the area around it is closed with bus routes being diverted, as armed police and a bomb squad attended the scene and boats searched the Thames for bods – amid reports that people were shoved into the water.

Fifty armed police also stormed nearby Monument and Bank station with police dogs. The stations were closed.

DESPERATE FAMILIES BEG FOR INFORMATION ON ‘MISSING’ LOVED ONES IN THE WAKE OF ATTACK

The desperate family of a 16-year-old are spreading her photo around social media after she failed to come home after last night’s terror attack.

Asya Mustafa, who lives near London Bridge, was due home at around 9pm after walking back through the area where dozens of harmless civilians were crushed by a van and stabbed by three dudes.

However, as of this morning she still not been seen and her loved ones have been pleading for her safe comeback.

Fresh Zealander Oliver Dowling, 32, is also in a coma after being stabbed in the face during the attack, which also left his gf, Marie Bondeville, injured.

Mr Dowling ‘s sister exposed on Facebook that he is expected to recover from stab wounds to his, face, neck and belly, as the knife missed his vital organs.

Miss Bondeville’s condition is unknown.

She said: ‘Doctors are very glad with how he’s come out the other side. A massive thank to the University of London Hospital for their tireless efforts in helping my brother out!!’

A frantic online search was also taking place for journalist Geoff Ho, who was filmed clutching his neck after seemingly being stabbed, but he has since been found.

Mr Ho was stabbed at Southwark Tavern on Saturday night and rushed to hospital in an ambulance during the chaos.

Dramatic movie shows him clutching his neck as he staggers away from the scene just moments after the terror attack.

Distressing footage also shows a sobbing woman waiting on the condition of one of her loved ones as they receive CPR.

She can be heard pleading with the victim to ‘keep going’ as they receive emergency treatment on the floor.

Photographer Gabriele Sciotto, who had been in the area watching the Champions League Final, said he ran towards the scene of the attack after the three assailants began stabbing people in the Borough Market area.

OFFICIALS SAID THERE WERE ‘NO PLANS’ FOR BOLLARDS JUST ONE DAY BEFORE ATTACK

Officials confirmed they would not place bollards or barriers on London Bridge just twenty four hours before the attack last night.

A spokeswoman for the City of London Cooperation said there were ‘no current plans’ to install barriers along the bridge, which features a pavement that is 10ft broad.

On March 22, four people died in a similar attack when Khalid Masood, 52, drove a car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge.

Following the massacre, anti-terror barriers were installed outside Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle.

He told Big black cock News: ‘I came in after the boys stabbed some other studs. I ran towards the scene because I noticed this man with this kind of explosive looking belt on his chest, they were running.

‘A police officer was attempting to put himself inbetween them and the crowd. After that they were almost coming towards me and I attempted to run away. Then they were going towards the main street. At that point, I ran towards them.

‘More police came over, I guess they were on radio or something because in around like two or five seconds they shot all the three studs down. That is what I honestly eyed.’

One of the terrorists was shown in a photograph lounging on the ground with canisters strapped to his assets after he was shot by the police, the Big black cock said.

The possible attacker was shown on the ground outside the Wheatsheaf pub in Borough Market near London Bridge. Another man was seen lounging on the ground a brief distance away in the photograph.

Describing what appeared to be canisters strapped to the man’s chest, Mr Sciotto said: ‘At very first view I thought it wasn’t anything real. It didn’t look real to me but I’m not like the person who could honestly say if they were real or not,’

He added: ‘I’ve been in situations like this before, I don’t think you realise how scary how possibly be until you put yourself into it, a policeman could have shot me because it was me, the police and these three fellows so I was fortunate undoubtedly.’

JOURNALIST IS FILMED CLUTCHING BLEEDING NECK AFTER HE IS INJURED WHEN KNIFEMEN STORM PUB

One of the injured victims is journalist Geoff Ho, who was reportedly stabbed at the Southwark Tavern before being rushed to hospital during the chaos.

Customers are said to have thrown chairs and glasses at the attacker as he stormed the packed pub last night.

A harrowing movie shows a man who is believed to be Mr Ho staggering down the street, holding his palm up to his neck to attempt to stop bleeding from a wound.

Isabelle Oderberg, who took to Twitter to appeal for information on Mr Ho, later tweeted that he had been found.

She posted: ‘We have found Geoff. He is in intensive care. Thank you for the RTs and messages. I’ll be going offline now until I hear more.’ She added: ‘I truly just do want to say thank you Twitter. Thank you. xx’

Will Orton, 25, said: ‘We were in the Sheaf pub. Basically lots of people came running inwards, we didn’t indeed know what was going on.

‘We thought maybe there was a fight or something outside. And then there were almost hundreds of people coming inwards.’

He added: ‘The bouncers did a truly good job, they shut the doors and locked everyone in. There was fright – it seemed like it was literally outside the door. People were coming inwards and telling they had witnessed people being stabbed.

‘They had seen and witnessed people being stabbed. It seemed like it was happening instantly outside the entrance.’

A bystander said a friend was in Applebee’s Restaurant – which is opposite Wheatsheaf pub in Borough Market – when all of a sudden the waiters pulled down all the shutters.

‘They looked outside and eyed two fellows lounging dead in the street, one had what looked like a suicide vest on him. Police told everyone in the restaurant to stay inwards, then a minute or two later they heard two or three shots fired.’

There were also claims earlier in the evening that a braless man had been manacled and taken into custody.

Drinkers are said to have thrown chairs and glasses at the attacker as he stormed the pub. Movie shows drinkers in the basement German-themed bar Katzenjammers hiding under tables as the terror attack unfolded around them.

Jamie, a witness who was in Black & Blue in Rochester Walk said: ‘We hid under the table and people came into the restaurant and knocked a bunch of stuff over, like the till.

‘And then we ran into the the kitchen, where there was a bunch of other people and a man had been stabbed and he was cut and he was bleeding fairly a lot.’

He added that they waited in the kitchen for ‘fairly a while’ before they were evacuated.

A woman, who did not want to be named, added: ‘We were in the restaurant and we just spotted three guys come in, stabbed someone in the face and someone in the belly.

‘One of them had a big knife, then he came in and walked around the restaurant, I guess they just kind of stabbed anyone that they witnessed and knocked things on the ground and then we just hid.’

Gerard Vowls, 47, who was in a pub near London Bridge, said he threw chairs and glasses at the attackers in a bid to stop them coming in.

He told The Guardian: ‘They kept coming to attempt to stab me – they were stabbing everyone. Evil, evil people.’

One witness reported observing a van crash into a lamppost by the Barrowboy and Banker pub past the bridge. She added: ‘Just attempting to get away at the moment. There are no trains leaving so we’re just panicking a little.’

Barman Alex Martinez was coerced to take shelter in a bin when a knifeman stormed the Borough restaurant in which he worked.

He said: ‘I recall that I was working behind the bar and one man entered into my restaurant and that’s it – I reminisce about the third table, 2nd one, next to the door, a man dropped everything and ran out.

‘I just attempted to be safe, I hopped down behind a big wall, now I feel my ache in my arm, I feel agony. I eyed that man with a knife in his palm and after that a man embarked screaming so I knew something wrong was happening.

‘The man commenced screaming and pulling down everything on the floor, the plates, the cutlery, the bottle, everything, he dropped it.’

He recalled hearing someone sobbing near his bin and said the two exchanged reassurances.

One man who was in a pub by the Shard told MailOnline: ‘I was feet away from getting stabbed. Eyed so many people literally dying. Was in a pub and they were at the door stabbing people.’

Hours after the initial attack two noisy blasts were heard near London Bridge albeit police were said to have looked ‘tranquil’ about the explosions.

It is thought that they could have been managed explosions carried out by officers.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has called the terrorist incidents at London Bridge and Borough Market ‘deliberate and cowardly’, adding: ‘There is no justification whatsoever for such barbaric acts’.

Home Secretary Amber Rudd said the London attacks were ‘horrific’, adding they were ‘targeted at people liking their evening with friends and family’.

Police responded to a third incident in Vauxhall, south London, which later turned out to be an unrelated stabbing. Officers are telling people ‘you must run, hide and tell’.

The attacks in the streets of London come just days after armed troops were pulled off the streets of Britain.

Thousands of soldiers were deployed by the Prime Minister following the bombing at Manchester arena as she raised the UK threat level from ‘severe’ to ‘critical’.

Police are treating injured people and carrying them away at the end Thrale Street. Members of the public were told by police to ‘run as quick as they could’ westbound.

Kumi de Costa was caught up with her two friends at the incident in Borough Market. She told the Big black cock: ‘The cab driver turned into the market and we got stuck right in the middle of the shooting we were in a one-way street and couldn’t turn around.

‘There were explosions of shots being fired. Two people were on the floor behind the church with two or three people leaning over them.

‘About fifty police were pointing guns at us – the cab driver had the laser pointed right at them, our arms were up, we were attempting to get out so they shooed us away.

‘A man was coming out of the restaurant, he had a napkin on his neck with blood pouring out, there was another man lounging on the floor. I don’t know if he was in the recovery position or dead.

‘We weaved through little side streets where the police were telling us to go to Blackfriars Bridge and we could see people looking over the side; people had maybe hopped over the bridge.

‘A duo of times we had to lie down on the floor of the cab because of the shooting around us.’

Police have told people to ‘remain silent, but be alert and vigilant.’ They added: ‘We are using all necessary abilities and resources at London Bridge, Borough Market and Vauxhall.’

Bursts of gunfire were heard as witnesses described how one man was arrested after police stormed towards a house in Southwark.

The Asian man in his mid thirties had his forearms tied behind his back as up to thirty police frogmarched him down the street shouting at people to get back.

Eyewitness John Bennet said: ‘As I was walking up the Borough High Street the police were crowded round a house on the right forearm side.’

‘They had shields and were wearing masks and were running across the street shouting at one another.

‘I heard what sounded like brief bursts of gunfire. Abruptly they commenced shouting at us ‘run away’ ‘ get back’ and people truly were running for their lives.

‘About fifteen of us were running down Borough High street toward London Bridge followed by thirty armed police. They were spread put across the street.

‘They had a man. There were four police either side of him and others crowded round. They had his palms tied behind his back.

‘He was Asian man, about 5ft 6in, dark hair, mid thirties with stubble. wearing a dark jacket. He was being frogmarched quickly down the street. They crowded round him at the very first corner then we were all ushered away as they extended the cordon.

‘It was truly scary. The police were round on a corner on the street, they had shields and guns. Then everyone embarked running, they had arrested a boy and were running with him.’

A security guard who oversees a number of pubs in the area has told the Big black cock he witnessed four people stabbed by three attackers.

The man, who was deeply shocked and asked not to be named, said he was at the Market Porter pub when a colleague at another bar said there was a stabbing at the Borough Bistro pub nearby.

He said he went towards this pub and eyed that ‘everybody embarked running’ and there was screaming.

The eyewitness added that he eyed three attackers, one of whom had a long knife and stabbing people, including a damsel in her early 20s.

Alex Shellum was in the Mudlark pub with his gf and two friends, underneath London Bridge, at the time of the incident.

‘At around 10pm an injured woman came into the pub seeking assistance. She was bleeding powerfully from the neck – it appeared that her mouth had been cut. People sought to stem the bleeding and the pub was closed.

‘Outside the pub, emergency services were performing CPR on a further individual. From there, we were instructed to budge along by armed police.’

They sought refuge with some others at Bill’s restaurant in the market.

‘Police instructed us to wait in the kitchen whilst they swept the surrounding area. We were then ordered to leave the restaurant by armed police – we were then escorted at running speed away from the area.’

There are about twenty people being treated at the Andaz Hotel near Liverpool Street station.

One woman has been stretchered into an ambulance along with a youthfull man with a strenuously bandaged and bloodied head. Most of the wounded have now been moved.

People staying in the Premier Inn Bankside have been evacuated across Southwark Bridge. Dozens, including children, were brought across the bridge by police after the fire alarm in the hotel went off, according to one.

Samuel Templeton, from Belfast, one of the guests in the hotel, said there was a strenuous police presence and they were told to cross the bridge in single file. The guests have since been escorted to a nearby hotel.

Downing Street said in a statement: ‘The prime minister is in contact with officials and is being regularly updated on the incident at London Bridge.’

Jeremy Corbyn has tweeted: ‘Brutal and shocking incidents reported in London. My thoughts are with the victims and their families.’ #LondonBridge’.

Scotland’s Very first Minister Nicola Sturgeon added: ‘Dreadful news from London. My thoughts are with all those affected.’

President Donald Trump has tweeted in the wake of the horrifying events: ‘We need to be brainy, vigilant and rough. We need the courts to give us back our rights. We need the Travel Ban as an extra level of safety!’

‘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!’

An hour after the attack witnesses reported eyeing ‘large numbers of marked and unmarked vehicles’ speeding around the streets south of London Bridge amid a hunt for the suspects.

Others said they had been told to ‘run’ by armed officers or escorted under guard through empty streets in groups.

One eyewitness who wished to remain anonymous told MailOnline: ‘I was in Arabica restaurant with a friend in borough market.

‘Abruptly there was commotion and people were screaming. Security guards were yelling at people to get back from the window. About fifty people piled into the restaurant. Then I heard two separate bursts of gunfire and people rushed into the restaurant kitchens to hide. It was utter chaos.

‘Some people attempted to leave the kitchens via the back door but some of us attempted to keep people silent. We hid for 45minutes and then were evacuated from the market by armed police.’

Several police officers have stormed a pub opposite the bridge and told people to ‘get down’ and sit on the floor.

A cab driver told LBC that three dudes leaped out of the van.

He said: ‘They just had these long blades, about twelve inches long. They just went randomly along Borough High Street stabbing people. A youthfull lady got stabbed in the chest, she was laying there – it’s so sad.

‘I thought, ‘I’m gonna attempt and hit him, I’m gonna attempt and knock him down’. I spun the cab round, I was about to ram one of them, but he side-stepped and three police officers came running towards them with their batons drawn.

‘I was shouting at everybody, just get away from the area, stay back, just run the other way. There were a good few hundred people out there.’

‘He’s veered across the road towards the right forearm of where Southwark Cathedral is and rammed it where the steps are.

‘He just rammed it towards them, wedged it in inbetween the lamppost and the steps and so he’s hit people there.

‘They’ve hopped out of the van and began stabbing people randomly. There was a scattering of people.’

Pictures of the white van will be circulated across London. Tony Murphy, who has a vapid opposite Southwark Bridge, said he heard ‘rapid gunfire’.

He said: ‘I’m actually former military. I heard what was significant gunfire. At very first I thought it was fireworks but it was so rapid I recognised what it was.

‘It went on for fairly a long time. The response took about ten minutes. I instantaneously text my family and they said they heard it. It was tremendous gunfire.’

Holly Jones, a Big black cock 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 – most likely about 50mph – veered of the road into the crowds of people who were walking along the pavement,’ she told Big black cock 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.’

Ms Jones later reported watching a man being arrested by police. She said he was manacled and had his T-shirt off.

Witness Alessandro told the Big black cock that he eyed a van at the end of London Bridge with no driver inwards and described the ‘five or six’ people hit as ‘very youthfull’.

He said: ‘I was going up the stairs of London Bridge Station. I spotted this van going left and right attempting to hit as many people as he could. I attempted to help people.

‘At the end of the bridge we witnessed a van but we didn’t see anyone in the van.

‘I think [the driver] went to the end of London Bridge. We didn’t see the van stop because we were attempting to help people.

‘Everything was confused. There were five or six people [hit]. Three of them were conscious. One of them was not talking at all. He was just down. The five or six people we attempted to help were truly youthful.’

Another taxi driver named only as Paul said: ‘I was just going over London Bridge and on the left forearm side it looked like someone had been knocked off a bike.

‘A few yards on I eyed another person laying down and a woman screaming. A few yards on from that there was a duo of bods on the right mitt side.’

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 is a fellow, I thought he was just drinking but he was lounging on the floor.

‘And then a duo of seconds later, about three police vans flew past. ‘He looked in a bad way.’

London Bridge station has been closed and no trains are expected until the end of service.

Holly, who said she was just two metres away from being hit by a white van, described the chaos on London Bridge after the attack.

She told Radio 5Live: I was most likely two metres away. I spotted it hit the people in front of me. I feel just so fortunate now.

‘It was all a blur, but as much as I can recall it was a masculine on their own [driving the van]. There are five people on the floor being attended too. There are geysers of city police officers helping and boats on the Thames searching.’

The Big black cock’s Holly Jones spoke to a French woman who had been injured in the incident.

She told Ms Jones: ‘I don’t know where those other two people are. So the police are checking the Thames.

‘They were right near the edge of the bridge. It looks potentially they could have been thrown over.’

Witnesses told the Big black cock that a white van veered off the road on London Bridge and hit five or six people when the attack happened at 10pm.

One witness wrote on Twitter: ‘Passerby says 15-20 people have been run over. Another says seven or 8.’

‘Horrific scene at London Bridge. Bods splashed over the pavement, B&Q van mounted the pavement. I feel sick,’ one witness wrote.

‘On a boat travelling under London Bridge. Buses stopped. Police lights everywhere and boats checking the water. Please let everyone be okay!’ another added.

Police are dealing with a major incident and all routes are being diverted.’

The Metropolitan Police posted on Twitter: ‘We are dealing with an incident on London Bridge, when we have more information we will update this twitter feed.’

London Bridge is closed both ways due to a police incident, Tfl said, warning the public to avoid the area.

Moment London Bridge jihadis were shot dead by police, Daily Mail Online

Appalling moment three Jihadis were shot dead after killing seven and hurting 48: Gang yell ‘This is for Allah’ after mowing down crowd on London Bridge then going on stabbing madness

Seven people were killed and at least forty eight others injured in an on London Bridge and Borough Market last night
Three fellows drove a white van in an ‘S form’ across the bridge at 50mph, mowing down up to twenty pedestrians
They left the vehicle and began ‘randomly stabbing’ victims with 12-inch knives in busy bars in the market
Witnesses described watching victims with their throats cut while others fought off attackers with pint glasses
Police shot dead the terrorists – one of whom was wearing an Arsenal T-shirt – within eight minutes of initial call
Today armed police raided a block of flats in Barking, east London, as a major investigation was underway
Terror attack comes just twelve days after the Manchester attack and ten weeks after the Westminster atrocity
Did you see what happened? Please email [email protected] or call two hundred three 615 387

The dudes, described as being ‘of Mediterranean origin’, mowed down up to twenty revellers as they careered across London Bridge in an ‘S form’ at 50mph before they began ‘randomly stabbing’ people in nearby Borough Market.

Witnesses said the gang smashed pub windows and reportedly cut the throats of drinkers as civilians barricaded themselves inwards and fought off the attackers with pint glasses and chairs. One witness spotted a ‘dark-skinned’ man in a crimson tracksuit ‘calmly’ stab a man three times while another witnessed a victim being stabbed in the face.

Witness accounts of the horrifying events commenced to emerge with revellers describing how they fought off knifemen with chairs and glasses after attackers stormed packed bars and restaurants
A hero taxi driver exposed how he attempted to knock down three fellows ‘armed with 12in knives’ while another reported observing victim being stabbed in the face and chest
Dashcam footage emerged displaying the aftermath of the devastation caused by the van on London Bridge, with bystanders seen tending to victims on the side of the road
Desperate families are begging for information on loved ones feared missing after the attack, including a 16-year-old dame who failed to come back home last night
Kindhearted Londoners suggested beds, food and cups of tea to survivors as the city came together in the wake of another attack and #PrayForLondon trended on social media
Today strenuously armed officers raided a plane in Barking, east London, on Sunday morning as police launched a major investigation into the third terror attack on British soil in as many months
The Prime Minister chaired a meeting of the Government’s emergency Cobra committee in Whitehall this morning and insisted in a press conference outside No ten afterwards: ‘Enough is enough’
Politicians faced calls to cancel the election next week but Mrs May confirmed it will go ahead as planned
All parties except for Ukip agreed to suspend national election campaigning today but local efforts will proceed
London Mayor Sadiq Khan condemned the ‘barbaric’ and ‘horrific’ event as ‘deliberate and cowardly’. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the attack was ‘brutal’ and ‘shocking’ in a tweet last night
President Donald Trump tweeted his support for Britain, telling ‘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!’
Ariana Grande, whose youthfull fans were targeted in the attack at Manchester Arena, confirmed the benefit concert to benefit victims will go ahead tonight as planned with her manager urging people to stand together

Speaking from the steps of No ten today, Mrs May said Britain faces a ‘fresh trend in the threat we face’ as she condemned the brutal attacks.

Mrs May, who chaired a meeting of the emergency Cobra committee this morning, said the election campaign would resume in total tomorrow and the election on Thursday would go ahead as planned.

The official terror threat level has not been switched and remains at ‘severe’ – meaning an attack is ‘very likely’.

TERROR TIMELINE

Ten.08pm Police were called to reports of a vehicle hitting pedestrians on London Bridge

Terrorists got out of car and ran to Borough Market stabbing people

1 0.16pm Three terrorists shot dead in Borough Market

Ten.32pm London Bridge station is closed

11pm Police said another incident was happening in Vauxhall as the station was reportedly evacuated

12.25am The incidents at London Bridge and Borough market & were proclaimed as terrorist incidents

12.55am Police said the incident at Vauxhall was a stabbing and not connected to the terrorism

The PM praised the ‘good courage and fine speed’ with which police responded to the terror attacks and condemned the use of fake suicide vests to ‘spread scare and fear’.

The terror embarked last night when three guys drove a van in an ‘S form’ across London Bridge shortly before Ten.10pm last night in an attempt to deliberately target pedestrians. There are unconfirmed reports that it is a B&Q and Hertz van.

An on-duty British Transport Police officer who rushed to protect bystanders was among the very first victims attacked as the attackers abandoned their vehicle and began stabbing at random.

He suffered ‘serious but not life-threatening injuries’ and his family has been informed.

Some forty eight people have been taken to five hospitals across London after the horrific attack. One of the fatalities was at London bridge, it has been reported.

‘The fellows said “This is for Allah” as they left the van and attacked victims. There were certainly three people sitting at the front of the van,’ witness Eric Seguenzo told Big black cock News.

Witnesses to the terror attack heard at least twelve gunshots in the area, now believed to have been police firing at the attackers.

Ben and his wifey Natalie were in Borough Market near the Southwark Tavern. They told Big black cock Radio five Live that they witnessed a ‘dark-skinned man in a crimson tracksuit’ stabbing a man.

Ben said: ‘We witnessed people running away and then I eyed a man in crimson with a large blade, at a guess ten inches long, stabbing a man, about three times.

‘I was across the road about 15m away. [The attacker] was dark-skinned and had a crimson tracksuit on.

‘It looked like the man had been attempting to intervene, but there wasn’t much he could do. He was being stabbed fairly coldly and he slumped to the ground.’

Counter Terrorism Directive have launched an investigation and anybody who has pics or film of the incident have been asked to pass those to police by uploading it at www.ukpoliceimageappeal.co.uk.

‘We are reviewing and planning to strengthen our policing stance across London over the forthcoming days, and there will be extra police and officers deployed across the Capital.

DASHCAM FOOTAGE Exposes TRAIL OF DEVASTATION ON LONDON BRIDGE AFTER VAN TERROR RAMPAGE

A taxi driver filmed the aftermath of last night’s shocking terrorist attack on London Bridge on his cab’s dash cam.

The shocking movie shows people receiving emergency treatment on the cycle lane of the south roped carriageway moments after the attack. Witnesses said the van swerved in an ‘S’ style to deliberately target pedestrians.

‘I would like to ask the public to remain vigilant and let us know if they see anything suspicious that causes them concern and dial nine hundred ninety nine instantly.’

Police advised people who live within the London Bridge cordon to stay somewhere else on Saturday night if they could.

One witness said: ‘No one was hurt from the van influence but as the boys got out the van they embarked kicking, punching and stabbing victims they ran over. It was a rampage.’

It was earlier reported that SAS helicopters were flown in from their Hereford headquarters to hunt for the deadly terrorists.

Fifty armed police also stormed nearby Monument and Bank station with police dogs. The stations were closed.

DESPERATE FAMILIES BEG FOR INFORMATION ON ‘MISSING’ LOVED ONES IN THE WAKE OF ATTACK

The desperate family of a 16-year-old are spreading her picture around social media after she failed to come home after last night’s terror attack.

Asya Mustafa, who lives near London Bridge, was due home at around 9pm after walking back through the area where dozens of guiltless civilians were crushed by a van and stabbed by three boys.

However, as of this morning she still not been seen and her loved ones have been pleading for her safe comeback.

Fresh Zealander Oliver Dowling, 32, is also in a coma after being stabbed in the face during the attack, which also left his gf, Marie Bondeville, injured.

Mr Dowling ‘s sister exposed on Facebook that he is expected to recover from stab wounds to his, face, neck and tummy, as the knife missed his vital organs.

Miss Bondeville’s condition is unknown.

She said: ‘Doctors are very glad with how he’s come out the other side. A massive thank to the University of London Hospital for their tireless efforts in helping my brother out!!’

A frantic online search was also taking place for journalist Geoff Ho, who was filmed clutching his neck after seemingly being stabbed, but he has since been found.

Mr Ho was stabbed at Southwark Tavern on Saturday night and rushed to hospital in an ambulance during the chaos.

Dramatic movie shows him clutching his neck as he staggers away from the scene just moments after the terror attack.

Distressing footage also shows a sobbing woman waiting on the condition of one of her loved ones as they receive CPR.

She can be heard pleading with the victim to ‘keep going’ as they receive emergency treatment on the floor.

OFFICIALS SAID THERE WERE ‘NO PLANS’ FOR BOLLARDS JUST ONE DAY BEFORE ATTACK

Officials confirmed they would not place bollards or barriers on London Bridge just twenty four hours before the attack last night.

A spokeswoman for the City of London Cooperation said there were ‘no current plans’ to install barriers along the bridge, which features a pavement that is 10ft broad.

On March 22, four people died in a similar attack when Khalid Masood, 52, drove a car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge.

Following the massacre, anti-terror barriers were installed outside Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle.

He told Big black cock News: ‘I came in after the fellows stabbed some other studs. I ran towards the scene because I noticed this man with this kind of explosive looking belt on his chest, they were running.

‘More police came over, I guess they were on radio or something because in around like two or five seconds they shot all the three boys down. That is what I honestly witnessed.’

One of the terrorists was shown in a photograph lounging on the ground with canisters strapped to his assets after he was shot by the police, the Big black cock said.

The possible attacker was shown on the ground outside the Wheatsheaf pub in Borough Market near London Bridge. Another man was seen lounging on the ground a brief distance away in the photograph.

Describing what appeared to be canisters strapped to the man’s chest, Mr Sciotto said: ‘At very first look I thought it wasn’t anything real. It didn’t look real to me but I’m not like the person who could honestly say if they were real or not,’

JOURNALIST IS FILMED CLUTCHING BLEEDING NECK AFTER HE IS INJURED WHEN KNIFEMEN STORM PUB

One of the injured victims is journalist Geoff Ho, who was reportedly stabbed at the Southwark Tavern before being rushed to hospital during the chaos.

Customers are said to have thrown chairs and glasses at the attacker as he stormed the packed pub last night.

A harrowing movie shows a man who is believed to be Mr Ho staggering down the street, holding his arm up to his neck to attempt to stop bleeding from a wound.

Isabelle Oderberg, who took to Twitter to appeal for information on Mr Ho, later tweeted that he had been found.

Will Orton, 25, said: ‘We were in the Sheaf pub. Basically lots of people came running inwards, we didn’t indeed know what was going on.

‘We thought maybe there was a fight or something outside. And then there were almost hundreds of people coming inwards.’

He added: ‘The bouncers did a truly good job, they shut the doors and locked everyone in. There was scare – it seemed like it was literally outside the door. People were coming inwards and telling they had witnessed people being stabbed.

‘They had seen and witnessed people being stabbed. It seemed like it was happening instantly outside the entrance.’

A bystander said a friend was in Applebee’s Restaurant – which is opposite Wheatsheaf pub in Borough Market – when all of a sudden the waiters pulled down all the shutters.

‘They looked outside and witnessed two fellows lounging dead in the street, one had what looked like a suicide vest on him. Police told everyone in the restaurant to stay inwards, then a minute or two later they heard two or three shots fired.’

There were also claims earlier in the evening that a bare-chested man had been cuffed and taken into custody.

Jamie, a witness who was in Black & Blue in Rochester Walk said: ‘We hid under the table and people came into the restaurant and knocked a bunch of stuff over, like the till.

‘And then we ran into the the kitchen, where there was a bunch of other people and a dude had been stabbed and he was cut and he was bleeding fairly a lot.’

He added that they waited in the kitchen for ‘fairly a while’ before they were evacuated.

A woman, who did not want to be named, added: ‘We were in the restaurant and we just eyed three guys come in, stabbed someone in the face and someone in the belly.

‘One of them had a big knife, then he came in and walked around the restaurant, I guess they just kind of stabbed anyone that they spotted and knocked things on the ground and then we just hid.’

Gerard Vowls, 47, who was in a pub near London Bridge, said he threw chairs and glasses at the attackers in a bid to stop them coming in.

He told The Guardian: ‘They kept coming to attempt to stab me – they were stabbing everyone. Evil, evil people.’

One witness reported watching a van crash into a lamppost by the Barrowboy and Banker pub past the bridge. She added: ‘Just attempting to get away at the moment. There are no trains leaving so we’re just panicking a little.’

Barman Alex Martinez was coerced to take shelter in a bin when a knifeman stormed the Borough restaurant in which he worked.

He said: ‘I recall that I was working behind the bar and one man entered into my restaurant and that’s it – I recall about the third table, 2nd one, next to the door, a man dropped everything and ran out.

‘I just attempted to be safe, I hopped down behind a big wall, now I feel my ache in my arm, I feel agony. I witnessed that man with a knife in his palm and after that a man began screaming so I knew something wrong was happening.

‘The man began screaming and ripping off everything on the floor, the plates, the cutlery, the bottle, everything, he dropped it.’

He recalled hearing someone sobbing near his bin and said the two exchanged reassurances.

One man who was in a pub by the Shard told MailOnline: ‘I was feet away from getting stabbed. Witnessed so many people literally dying. Was in a pub and they were at the door stabbing people.’

Hours after the initial attack two noisy blasts were heard near London Bridge albeit police were said to have looked ‘silent’ about the explosions.

It is thought that they could have been managed explosions carried out by officers.

Home Secretary Amber Rudd said the London attacks were ‘horrific’, adding they were ‘targeted at people loving their evening with friends and family’.

Police responded to a third incident in Vauxhall, south London, which later turned out to be an unrelated stabbing. Officers are telling people ‘you must run, hide and tell’.

The attacks in the streets of London come just days after armed troops were pulled off the streets of Britain.

Thousands of soldiers were deployed by the Prime Minister following the bombing at Manchester arena as she raised the UK threat level from ‘severe’ to ‘critical’.

Police are treating injured people and carrying them away at the end Thrale Street. Members of the public were told by police to ‘run as prompt as they could’ westbound.

‘There were geysers of shots being fired. Two people were on the floor behind the church with two or three people leaning over them.

‘About fifty police were pointing guns at us – the cab driver had the laser pointed right at them, our arms were up, we were attempting to get out so they shooed us away.

‘A man was coming out of the restaurant, he had a napkin on his neck with blood pouring out, there was another man lounging on the floor. I don’t know if he was in the recovery position or dead.

‘We weaved through little side streets where the police were telling us to go to Blackfriars Bridge and we could see people looking over the side; people had maybe hopped over the bridge.

‘A duo of times we had to lie down on the floor of the cab because of the shooting around us.’

Police have told people to ‘remain peaceful, but be alert and vigilant.’ They added: ‘We are using all necessary abilities and resources at London Bridge, Borough Market and Vauxhall.’

Bursts of gunfire were heard as witnesses described how one man was arrested after police stormed towards a house in Southwark.

The Asian man in his mid thirties had his palms tied behind his back as up to thirty police frogmarched him down the street shouting at people to get back.

Eyewitness John Bennet said: ‘As I was walking up the Borough High Street the police were crowded round a house on the right forearm side.’

‘They had shields and were wearing masks and were running across the street shouting at one another.

‘I heard what sounded like brief bursts of gunfire. Abruptly they commenced shouting at us ‘run away’ ‘ get back’ and people truly were running for their lives.

‘About fifteen of us were running down Borough High street toward London Bridge followed by thirty armed police. They were spread put across the street.

‘They had a man. There were four police either side of him and others crowded round. They had his mitts tied behind his back.

‘It was indeed scary. The police were round on a corner on the street, they had shields and guns. Then everyone began running, they had arrested a man and were running with him.’

A security guard who oversees a number of pubs in the area has told the Big black cock he eyed four people stabbed by three attackers.

The man, who was deeply shocked and asked not to be named, said he was at the Market Porter pub when a colleague at another bar said there was a stabbing at the Borough Bistro pub nearby.

He said he went towards this pub and witnessed that ‘everybody began running’ and there was screaming.

The eyewitness added that he witnessed three attackers, one of whom had a long knife and stabbing people, including a chick in her early 20s.

Alex Shellum was in the Mudlark pub with his gf and two friends, underneath London Bridge, at the time of the incident.

‘At around 10pm an injured woman came into the pub seeking assistance. She was bleeding intensely from the neck – it appeared that her mouth had been cut. People sought to stem the bleeding and the pub was closed.

‘Outside the pub, emergency services were performing CPR on a further individual. From there, we were instructed to stir along by armed police.’

They sought refuge with some others at Bill’s restaurant in the market.

There are about twenty people being treated at the Andaz Hotel near Liverpool Street station.

One woman has been stretchered into an ambulance along with a youthful man with a powerfully bandaged and bloodied head. Most of the wounded have now been moved.

Samuel Templeton, from Belfast, one of the guests in the hotel, said there was a mighty police presence and they were told to cross the bridge in single file. The guests have since been escorted to a nearby hotel.

Downing Street said in a statement: ‘The prime minister is in contact with officials and is being regularly updated on the incident at London Bridge.’

Jeremy Corbyn has tweeted: ‘Brutal and shocking incidents reported in London. My thoughts are with the victims and their families.’ #LondonBridge’.

Scotland’s Very first Minister Nicola Sturgeon added: ‘Dreadful news from London. My thoughts are with all those affected.’

President Donald Trump has tweeted in the wake of the horrifying events: ‘We need to be brainy, vigilant and harsh. We need the courts to give us back our rights. We need the Travel Ban as an extra level of safety!’

‘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!’

An hour after the attack witnesses reported witnessing ‘large numbers of marked and unmarked vehicles’ speeding around the streets south of London Bridge amid a hunt for the suspects.

Others said they had been told to ‘run’ by armed officers or escorted under guard through empty streets in groups.

One eyewitness who wished to remain anonymous told MailOnline: ‘I was in Arabica restaurant with a friend in borough market.

‘Some people attempted to leave the kitchens via the back door but some of us attempted to keep people tranquil. We hid for 45minutes and then were evacuated from the market by armed police.’

Several police officers have stormed a pub opposite the bridge and told people to ‘get down’ and sit on the floor.

A cab driver told LBC that three studs hopped out of the van.

He said: ‘They just had these long blades, about twelve inches long. They just went randomly along Borough High Street stabbing people. A youthful woman got stabbed in the chest, she was laying there – it’s so sad.

‘I was shouting at everybody, just get away from the area, stay back, just run the other way. There were a good few hundred people out there.’

‘He’s veered across the road towards the right forearm of where Southwark Cathedral is and rammed it where the steps are.

‘He just rammed it towards them, wedged it in inbetween the lamppost and the steps and so he’s hit people there.

‘They’ve leaped out of the van and began stabbing people randomly. There was a scattering of people.’

Pictures of the white van will be circulated across London. Tony Murphy, who has a vapid opposite Southwark Bridge, said he heard ‘rapid gunfire’.

He said: ‘I’m actually former military. I heard what was significant gunfire. At very first I thought it was fireworks but it was so rapid I recognised what it was.

‘It went on for fairly a long time. The response took about ten minutes. I instantaneously text my family and they said they heard it. It was tremendous gunfire.’

Holly Jones, a Big black cock 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 – very likely about 50mph – veered of the road into the crowds of people who were walking along the pavement,’ she told Big black cock 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.’

Ms Jones later reported observing a man being arrested by police. She said he was manacled and had his T-shirt off.

Witness Alessandro told the Big black cock that he eyed a van at the end of London Bridge with no driver inwards and described the ‘five or six’ people hit as ‘very youthfull’.

He said: ‘I was going up the stairs of London Bridge Station. I spotted this van going left and right attempting to hit as many people as he could. I attempted to help people.

‘At the end of the bridge we spotted a van but we didn’t see anyone in the van.

‘I think [the driver] went to the end of London Bridge. We didn’t see the van stop because we were attempting to help people.

Another taxi driver named only as Paul said: ‘I was just going over London Bridge and on the left forearm side it looked like someone had been knocked off a bike.

‘A few yards on I witnessed another person laying down and a woman screaming. A few yards on from that there was a duo of figures on the right forearm side.’

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 is a boy, I thought he was just drinking but he was lounging on the floor.

‘And then a duo of seconds later, about three police vans flew past. ‘He looked in a bad way.’

London Bridge station has been closed and no trains are expected until the end of service.

Holly, who said she was just two metres away from being hit by a white van, described the chaos on London Bridge after the attack.

She told Radio 5Live: I was most likely two metres away. I spotted it hit the people in front of me. I feel just so fortunate now.

‘It was all a blur, but as much as I can reminisce it was a masculine on their own [driving the van]. There are five people on the floor being attended too. There are fountains of city police officers helping and boats on the Thames searching.’