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Police are looking at this potential terrorist attack. it has been some time. but they indicated and of course they have to be very careful in the aftermath of an incident like this, talk to us about your concerns going forward if, indeed, this is confirmed to be this, which seems to be all the indications now that the counter terrorism command is investigating this. . i think from it and many in the evening which runs into midnight and often after midnight. and so targeting them is easy. theyre...

Viewers breaking news were following out of london. one person has died and the counter terrorism command is investigating, at least, eight other people wounded. police are treating this as potential terror attack. one person was arrested but wont say if theyre seeking other suspects. >> the incident took place near a mosque. the muslim council of britain tweeted it was informed that a van ran over people as they were leaving that mosque. witnesses tell cnn that three men exited the van. one of ...

Taken into custody. one witness was telling me how they had to drag someone from other beneath the van as he was stuck and trapped in there. what youre seeing behind him is what weve been seeing all night the last few hours you have the police here. theyve been thorough in their investigation just giving out little bits of information, but we now know that this is being investigated by the counter terrorism command. it looks like its beginning to be treated more like a terrorist attack, that is ...

It is hard to read too much into that. the thing that i saw, heard when you gave that report, rifd, they were sending him off for a mental health evaluation, and so that is a significant part. usually, if you think that somebody doesnt need that, why would you do that? we didnt send people off routinely for mental health evaluations when they committed horrendous crimes unless they needed to have them medically evaluated. so something must have been during the evaluation or the speech or somethi...

Eight people were injured and taken to three separate hospitals. two people treated at the scene for minor injuries. they then say -- this is an interesting point to make -- at this stage there are no reports of any persons having suffered any knife injuries. the driver of the man was found detained by members of the public at the scene and arrested by police in connection with the incident. hes being taken to hospitals as precaution, they say. and we take them into custody once hes been dischar...

And managing the cordons around the crime scene. including local officers, and we can see it from the pictures as well as the neighboring boroughs in the space. the investigation of the incident is being coried out by the counter terrorism command, and th and this is who is leading it now. at the early stages of the investigation. no other suspects at the scene have been identified or reported to police, and however, the investigation continue, and due to the nature of the incident, extra police...

Would be out at that hour, and it is of course ramadan, and there are two mosques in the area, and right next to where this incident took place. and people were in the process of leaving the mosque. there were apparently hundreds of people out on the streetsk and packed sidewalks which is the moment of perhaps if it were intentional, you know, that is the moment that the driver chose to ram this vehicle, this white van into a crowd of pedestrias.s and of course, we dont know yet exactly that the...

>> yes. i dont know the name of that, but, yes. some kind of people in there, mostly them. because im so use to seeing them there every day, im assuming that maybe there are some muslims between the victims i saw on the floor. >> witness speaking to cnn just moments after the incident. ian, were getting important information, at last, from the london police and they are now -- theyre telling us tht counter ter -- that the counter terrorism command is leading the investigation. that tells us some...

Control of counter terrorism command is very telling, indeed, isnt it? >> reporter: thats right. for the police when it comes to incidents like this, they want to be accurate. thats the most important thing for them, to get information out there to the public, but also to be accurate and not put out something that theyll later have to retract. thats probably why were seeing this slow flow of information since the aftermath, even though they have this man in custody that theyre able to talk to hi...

But its not going to change overnight because this problem has been developing for years and years. and the problem is they are going to have to bang this thing out in parliament. they will have to figure out how to change those laws. just like our fbi here works within the confines, the parameters they are loued within law so do mi 5 and 6 and the met and the counter terrorism command. they all have to react with what they are allowed to do. thats going to be a big parliamentary conversation. b...