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Police to try to prevent these kinds of attacks. it was only in march that we saw a man who managed to kill five people in westminster, right in the beating heart of london byst houses of parliament and in strikingly similar ways in terms of also using a vehicle. you've heard all the various commentators, ana, you've had on the show this hour, really kind of latch on to the significance or importance of using a car or a van as a weapon, because this has been such a trope in the sort of jihadist on line communities whereby they've said, if you can't get hold of a gun, if you can't make a bomb, ...

>> you described hearing a boom and then you looked up and you saw -- you just said it was a truck that hit several people. first, did you see -- >> yes. >> exactly how many people were in that area at the time, how many people may have been hit by this vehicle and where did that vehicle go, end up? >> it is difficult to say from my vantage point exactly how many people were on the bridge. when i was up there, it appeared about 20 to 25 in my vicinity on that side of the bridge when i left. having walked down, i can't say for sure how many people were on there. but that's basically it. >> did ...

Occupants of the vehicle able to get out, run away and they were the people that engaged at the black market the shots were fired and the stabbings allegedly occurred. and the third location, we don't know what the basis was for the police responding to that location. did someone done in that they saw someone suspicious running down the street and that's what led to that call? there's all these facts that we still don't know that are all three incidents actually interrelated, do we have the same people causing all three incidents? >> here with me, james gal anno. given that this is an incident...

>> wait and see and gather information. tom fuentes. when we're hearing our three separate locations that police are responding to right now, what does that tell you? >> well, it tells me that if the people that were in the vehicle escaped out of the vehicle, ran into the market, got involved stabbing people at the market and possibly in some type of shootout with the police and then the police at least an honed one, then you have the possibility that other subjects that were with that one subject fled and went to the other area, so -- but the third area we just don't know. that could be just ...

Joining us is tom fuentes. tom, when we hear about these areas specifically, does it make sense that these areas would be targets? >> why, certainly. the bridge itself would be an enormous target. it's iconic. it's named after the city, london. everybody would know about that bridge around the worrell, so that would internal a key reason for that. i think what's important now is the police took the witnesses away by bus to a hotel to be interviewed and what i'd like to hear is did any of the witnesses actually see the occupants of the vehicle get out and run away when the vehicle stopped. all ...