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There, that belt, that fake suicide belt worn by the man in the foreground in that picture. but police say they shot and killed three suspects in borough market within eight minutes of receiving the initial emergency call at 10:08 p.m. local time. here is the latest update from the police. >> we're treating this as a terrorist incident and a full investigation is already under way, led by london's counterterrorism command. you will understand that our knowledge of the incident is still growing but at the moment what we understand is as follows. at eight minutes past 10:00 last night we began t...

Services to continue this operation. this investigation, as i've said, is led by the counterterrorism command and we'd ask for the public's help. anybody who has images or film from the incident tonight, perhaps those in the area, up load it to ukpoliceimageappeal and you'll find that on various news feeds. and, of course, our thoughts are with those who are involved and those concerned about loved ones in the area. they should contact our casualty bureau. if you're worried about someone in the area 800961233. looking forward, we are, of course, reviewing our plans of policing across london an...

Isis and there is one message for them, to stay home and launch attacks. >> the operating assumption here is that this is an act of terrorism. this investigation is now going to be led by counterterrorism command known as so-15. they are one of the most capable counterterrorism outfits in the world. they work very closely with mi-5. they will be going through all sorts of cc-tv, witness statements and investigating this with great intensity. their biggest concern right now, obviously, is this over. they were not commit tal about that. they didn't say whether they have full confidence that this...

Derek byrd went on the rampage, so today he has full experience with this kind of thing in seems as if he was a witness of this attack. >> we are told that -- you can see from our position, he was actually here at the scene when this incident occurred, so we heard that from scotland yard just a short time ago, they held a news conference to update us, and this is what they had to say. >> since 2:40 this afternoon, we've responded to an incident in parliament square and the scene has declared this a terrorist incident. although we remain open-minded to the motive, a full counterterrorism invest...

>> although we remain open minded to the motive, a full counterterrorism investigation is already underway. this is led by the counterterrorism command. at this stage i will confirm what we know has happened. i will not speculate. we received a number of different calls, which included a person in the river, a car and pedestrians and a man armed with a knife. officers were already in that location as part of routine policing, but immediately additional officers were sent to the scene, and that includes firearms officers. we are working closely with the london ambulance service and the london f...