Terrorist attack on London Bridge

[Drummond]

An incident occurred on the northern end of London Bridge this afternoon (close to 2pm, local time). A lone terrorist launched a knife attack.

Details on casualties are still sketchy. But the perpetrator was shot dead by police on the bridge. The terrorist was armed with a knife, and was also wearing what turned out to be a hoax suicide vest.

A BBC report on this (true to form, the BBC did not describe this as a terrorist incident, nor the attacker as a terrorist, in their initial reporting ...) ....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50604781

A number of people have been stabbed and a man has been shot dead by police in an attack at London Bridge.

The Met Police has declared the stabbing attack a terrorist incident.

The suspect, who died at the scene, was believed to have been wearing a hoax explosive device, police said.

A BBC reporter at the scene said he had seen a fight on the bridge, with several men attacking one man. Police then arrived quickly and a number of shots were fired at him, he said.

Details are still emerging and Neil Basu, the head of UK counter-terrorism policing, said the force was keeping an open mind over the motive.

He said officers were called to a stabbing at a premises near the bridge just before 14:00.

Footage has emerged on social media of a man apparently being pinned down by members of the public.

Another man in a suit and jacket could be seen running from him, having apparently retrieved a large knife.

The members of the public then disperse and the man appears to be shot by police as he lay on the ground.

Mr Basu told a press conference: "A male suspect was shot by specialist armed officers from City of London police and I can confirm that this suspect died at the scene."

British Transport Police said London Bridge station was currently closed and no trains would be stopping there.

Our politicians have issued their appropriate statements of sympathy, and of support for the police.

One possible point of interest will be to see how Jeremy Corbyn (Labour Party leader) treats the incident, once he's had time to properly sift the facts. Where Al-Baghdadi was concerned, he was critical of armed forces tackling Baghdadi at the time, saying that all possible efforts should've been made to arrest him, instead of killing him. Well ... in this current incident, I've yet to hear of Corbyn taking a comparable position against the knife-wielding terrorist, who, as I say, was shot dead by police at the scene.