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that they are terrorist incidents. we can cross live to london bridge now and speak to our reporter, nick quraishi. you have got to that location in underan hour you have got to that location in under an hour after the first incident was reported. we can still see people making their way away from the flashing lights. yes. every time you come to me it is calm for a while and then there is intense police activity. policemen beside me are directing some cars that are about to come on to the area that is cordoned off. they will be here in a few seconds. i think i can focus on them. that is what is happening at them. that is what is happening at the scene here. when i came here, this was the only scene that we knew about. london bridge. a car had run into pedestrians. armed police going past it looks like. that was the first thing we heard, london bridge, afan had first thing we heard, london bridge, a fan had run into pedestrians. van. a number of suspects were carrying ....
near london bridge. tom symonds. police have put in a large cordon. you can see the furthest blue, flashing light, a short distance from the borough markets area. are market is a farmers market where people go for lunch. it is surrounded by bars and restaurants. it is opposite london bridge station where people go to head home after a night out in central london. putting together eyewitness reports, only eyewitness reports, which can be wrong, but the eyewitnesses we spoke to say a van ploughed into people on the southern end of london bridge, i was told by people in a pub that it was told by people in a pub that it was on the corner of the bridge, that grey, possibly four man, got out, armed with knives. three, possible four men,. one was mediterranean in terms of skin colour and had a black and red top on and had a long knife. i asked if it was a breadknife sized weapon and the eyewitness said he felt it was a long kitchen knife. they ran towards london bridge a ....
and hitting pedestrians causing multiple casualties on london bridge, around half a dozen. shortly afterwards, reports of a series of stabbings at borough markets, close to london bridge. that is where we are, at one of the many police cordons thrown up around london bridge and in the borough markets area around central london. i am joined by tom symons, who has been following events as they unfold. what do we know so far? as you know well, when we speak to witnesses in these situations, they tell us what they saw. we are getting reports that a fitting together into a narrative of what happened here. we are looking at the van crashing potentially into pedestrians on the southern end of london bridge. i was told it was just outside a pub near the london bridge station where people would have been going after a night out. several people jumped out of the van and ran into borough markets, a food market with bars and restau ra nts markets, a food market with bars and restau ....