A man has been shot by police at London Bridge in Central London, following what police described as a stabbing which is being treated as a terror incident.
London Bridge was the site of a terror attack in 2017.
Police confirmed that a suspect had been shot and died at the scene, and several others had been injured. Assistant commissioner Neil Basu said the suspect was wearing a hoax suicide vest.
Several videos circulating on Twitter appeared to show a group of people wrestling a man to the ground, before two armed police shot one of the men.
Some people were “seriously” injured, London Mayor Sadiq Khan said in a statement outside London’s police headquarters, Scotland Yard.
“What’s remarkable about the images we’ve seen is the breathtaking heroism of members of the public who literally ran towards danger not knowing what confronted them,” Khan said. “We do know from the statement given by Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu that there appears to be a device on the suspect. Members ..