Breaking News: London Bridge attack Story by Dauda Awwal
Seven people have died after the dreadful terrorists attacked London bridge and Borough market June 3,2017. Many were in tears, with friends supporting each other and carrying people up the road. Police entered bars and warned those inside to get down. Why the terrorists continue killing the innocent Londoners and visitors to our city enjoying their life, we at Dalnews strongly condemned the attack, there is no justification whatsoever for such barbaric acts. The three fatal terror attacks Britain has seen in the past three months – Westminster Bridge, Manchester and now London Bridge. The latest attacks will trigger fresh questions for police and the domestic security service MI5. The fear will be that the defences against such attacks are being regularly penetrated, after atrocities in Westminster and Manchester. Although full investigation is already under way according to the counter-terrorism command. A white Van ploughed through on London Bridge around 10pm on Saturday June 3,2017.Three men wearing fake bomb vests began knifing people standing and pub goers near the London Bridge. The staff barricaded the entrance doors as the terrorists tried to storm the pub, three of them were shot dead by the police. They said Pakistan-born Khuram Butt, 27, of Barking, London, had been known to police and MI5 but there had not been any intelligence about an attack. The other attacker was Rachid Redouane, 30, from Barking, who police said had claimed to be Moroccan-Libyan. The attackers were shot dead by police. All 12 people arrested after the attack have now been released without charge. The seven women and five men were arrested in Barking on Sunday following the attack in which seven people were killed and 48 injured .
NHS England said 36 people remained in hospital, with 18 in a critical condition.
view photo According to our correspondent, seven people have been killed and 48 people were injured within the eight minutes of the emergency call of receiving the report of the attack, and one of the British Transport Police was stabbed in the head, face and leg. His injuries are serious but not lifethreatening. Cressida Dick,the Metropolitan police commissioner said: 'We believe there were three attackers and we believe they are dead''. British Police raided an apartment block in Barking on Sunday morning and arrested twelve people according to witnesses, as part of a dozen arrests in the east London borough.
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A Scotland Yard spokesman said: “The investigation into last night’s horrific attack in London is progressing rapidly as the Metropolitan Police Service continue to piece together exactly what occurred. Officers from the Met’s counter terrorism command have this morning, Sunday 4 June, arrested 12 people in Barking, east London, in connection with last night’s incidents in London Bridge and the Borough Market area. Searches of a number of addresses in Barking are continuing”.
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Following the terror attack, the Prime Minister of England-Theresa May delivered a firm warning to the terrorists Following the third terrorist attack in three months. the three fatal terror attacks Britain has seen in the past three months – Westminster Bridge, Manchester and now London Bridge. In a speech outside 10 Downing Street later on Sunday morning. "Perpetrators are inspired to act not only on the basis of carefully constructed plots after years of planning and training, and not even as lone attackers radicalised online, but by copying one another and often using the crudest of means of attack. "It is time to say enough is enough. Everybody needs to go about their lives as they normally would. Our society should continue to function in accordance with our values. Five of the nine injured victims admitted to St Thomas’s hospital have been discharged, as has one of the 14 admitted to King’s College hospital, health officials said. According to our correspondent, the first ambulance crew arrived six minutes after being called, they came with an advance trauma team from London’s air ambulance. Another witness, Ben, told the BBC what he saw outside Borough tube station. “I saw a man in red with quite a large blade,” he said. “I am guessing 10 inches. He was stabbing a man, maybe three times, fairly calmly. It looked like the man maybe had been trying to intervene but there wasn’t much he could do. He was stabbed quite coldly and slumped to the ground.” Many were in tears, with friends supporting each other and carrying people up the road. Police entered bars and warned those inside to get down. Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London has condemned the attack in a television interview earlier on Sunday. Khan said “Metropolitan police are responding to the horrific terrorist attack at London Bridge and Borough Market,” and added: “My thoughts are with everyone affected, and I’d like to thank the brave men and women of our emergency services who were first on the scene and will be working throughout the night. He dismissed questions about whether Thursday’s election should go ahead .
US President, Donald Trump berates London mayor over his response to the terror attacks. A spokesperson for Khan said after Trump’s tweet: “The mayor is busy working with the police, emergency services and the government to coordinate the response to this horrific and cowardly terrorist attack and provide leadership and reassurance to Londoners and visitors to our city. He has more important things to do than respond to Donald Trump’s illinformed tweet that deliberately takes out of context his remarks urging Londoners not to be alarmed when they saw more police – including armed officers – on the streets.” Details continue...