ISIS Claims Responsibility for London Bridge Terrorist Incident That Left Seven Dead

Emergency officials said 48 people were transported to hospitals in London following Saturday night’s attack on and near London Bridge.

There have been more than half a dozen terrorist incidents in Britain since 2005.

“Indeed I am not surprised that when faced with what they must have feared were three suicide bombers, the firearms officers fired an unprecedented number of rounds to be completely confident that they had neutralised the threat that those men posed”.

London authorities were in the early phase of responding to reports of attacks on London Bridge and other areas of the city when Trump weighed in on Twitter.

The van deliberately swerved into groups of people at speed, eyewitnesses said.

Potters Field Park is located near Tower Bridge in London, SE1 2AA.

“It was swerving from side to side”.

“I commend the strong leadership of the @MayorofLondon as he leads the city forward after this heinous attack”, he said, quoted on the USA embassy’s Twitter account.

“It hit one person about 20 foot (six meters) in the air”.

“I don’t think that anything she is proposing is anything that needs to be or will be dealt with tomorrow, and I don’t think anything is an immediate step that she is putting forward”.

Among the victims, there was a Canadian man, as confirmed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Morrison said in a video: “All of a sudden this guy comes up with a knife”.

The events unfolded Saturday night around 10 p.m. GMT when a van mowed down pedestrians along the London Bridge. In a matter of minutes, the three assailants were chased down and killed by police.

Florin Morariu, a Romanian chef who works in the Bread Ahead bakery, said he saw people running and some fainting.

The suspects are then believed to have jumped out the van and proceeded on foot to nearby Borough Market, a popular nightlife spot, where witnesses said they produced knives and slashed indiscriminately at customers in restaurants and bars. “It was a rampage”. In March, a British convert to Islam ran down people with a vehicle on Westminster Bridge, killing four before fatally stabbing a policeman on Parliament’s grounds.

Alex Shellum, who was in The Mudlark pub near London Bridge said he saw a young woman stagger in.

“It is time to say enough is enough”, Prime Minister Theresa May said Sunday. “It appeared to myself and to my friends that her throat had been cut”, he told the BBC.

With her son being treated in King’s College Hospital, Mrs O’Neill condemned the terrorists as “callous and barbaric”, saying: “These people say they are doing it in the name of god which is an absolute joke”. “I was just trying to get their attention by throwing things at them”.

Only hours before, bursts of gunfire echoed through the streets – likely from armed police – and at least three blasts rang out as officers performed controlled explosions after sweeping the area for possible bombs. “We could hear voices outside of the door and people walking up and down and we had to keep deadly silent because we thought we were going to get gunned down through the door, basically because we could hear the shots outside”.