Attacks at London Bridge, Borough Market confirmed as 'terrorist incidents'

London [U.K.], June 4 (ANI): The U.K. Metropolitan Police have declared the attacks at the London Bridge and the Borough Market as "terrorist incidents." The incident at Vauxhall is a stabbing and is not connected to the other two incidents. The Metropolitan Police confirmed the developments in a series of tweets. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">At 0025hrs 4/6/17 the incidents at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LondonBridge?src=hash">#LondonBridge</a> & <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BoroughMarket?src=hash">#BoroughMarket</a> were declared as terrorist incidents.</p>- Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) <a href="https://twitter.com/metpoliceuk/status/871152151787171840">June 3, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The incident at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Vauxhall?src=hash">#Vauxhall</a> is a stabbing and is not connect to the incidents at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LondonBridge?src=hash">#LondonBridge</a> & <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BoroughMarket?src=hash">#BoroughMarket</a></p>&mdash; Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) <a href="https://twitter.com/metpoliceuk/status/871152386739404800">June 3, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Earlier, minutes after a van mowed down a number of pedestrians on the London Bridge, injuring several, it was reported that two other simultaneous terror attacks took place at the Borough Market and Vauxhall here. Soonafter, the police started responding to these incidents across parts of the city. At the London bridge, witnesses said the van was reported to have swerved onto the pavement and there have been unconfirmed reports of gunfire, The Guardian reported. At the Borough Market, where there are reports of multiple stabbings, people were forced to take cover under the tables in a resturant as a man entered and stabbed two people. The Metropolitan Police tweeted, advising people to "run, hide and tell." <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="und" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Londonbridge?src=hash">#Londonbridge</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/boroughmarket?src=hash">#boroughmarket</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/vauxhall?src=hash">#vauxhall</a> <a href="https://t.co/a7OciBEBjH">pic.twitter.com/a7OciBEBjH</a></p>- Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) <a href="https://twitter.com/metpoliceuk/status/871135916047388672">June 3, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Armed police and emergency vehicles were earlier dispatched to the London Bridge, where there were unconfirmed reports of bodies lying on the ground, The Independent reported. The London Bridge station has been closed "at the request of police" following what has been described as a "major police incident". England has been on the edge since May 22, when a suicide bomber killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena. Earlier on March 24, London was struck by a terror attack that killed four people and left dozens injured in the city's deadliest attack in over a decade. 52-year-old Khalid Masood mowed down people injuring as many as 40 on the Westminster Bridge in a terror attack on London and stabbed a police officer to death as he tried to enter the U.K. Parliament. The ISIS had claimed responsibility for the attack, saying that a "soldier of the caliphate" carried out the atrocity in Westminster. The terror organisation said that the attacker followed a call to attack civilians and security forces in countries allied to the U.S.-led coalition bombing the ISIS territories in Syria and Iraq. (ANI)