Seven Dead Following Terror Attacks in London

At least seven people have died and 48 more are injured – some seriously – after a van veered into pedestrians on London Bridge, before three men got out, ran to nearby Borough Market and started attacking people with knives.

Police said all three suspects – who were wearing what looked like explosive vests, which were later confirmed as fakes – were shot dead by 10:16PM, eight minutes after the rampage started.

A man who witnessed the London Bridge attack told BBC Radio 5Live: "[The van] veered to the right and people were trying to run away from it." The van then stopped, he said, before three men got out, approached the people who had been hit and "started kicking them, punching them and [taking] out knives".

Another witness, Gerard Vowls, told the BBC he'd seen three men in their thirties stabbing a woman. "They kept coming to try to stab me," he said. "They were stabbing everyone. Evil, evil people."

The BBC reports that two witnesses claimed to hear the attackers scream, "This is for Allah."

The London Ambulance Service sent ambulance crews, advanced paramedics, specialist response teams and an advanced trauma team from London's Air Ambulance to the scene. The first medics arrived in six minutes.

Following a Cobra meeting on Sunday morning, Prime Minister Theresa May said, "We are experiencing a new trend in the threat we face as terrorism breeds terrorism," adding that there is "far too much tolerance" of extremism in the UK, and that some "difficult" and potentially "embarrassing" conversations are needed to deal with the threat.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who attended the meeting, released a statement in the early hours of Sunday morning condemning the "deliberate and cowardly attack […] in the strongest possible terms".

World leaders have offered condolences and support, and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said he is "absolutely shocked and horrified", thanking the emergency services and stating, "We will stand together to defend our common values of solidarity, humanity and justice."

Most political parties have temporarily suspended their national general election campaigns as a mark of respect, with only UKIP leader Paul Nuttall saying he refuses to do so because "it's what these cowards want us to do".

Labour and the Conservatives will resume campaigning on Monday, with Theresa May saying "violence must never be allowed to disrupt the democratic process", and that the "general election will go ahead as planned on Thursday".

The incident is the third this year in the UK, following a car attack in Westminster on the 22nd of March and a bombing at Manchester Arena on the 22nd of May.

The situation is developing and this story will be updated