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How did it start?
At 10.08pm police responded to a call about a white van ramming into five or six people on London Bridge.
The van reportedly veered off the road and drove into people on the pavement.
Paramedics were on the scene six minutes later, the London Ambulance Service said.
Police are piecing together eyewitness accounts, and believe that three men got out of the van and started attacking people with knives.
An eyewitness, Eric, told the BBC that he heard shouts of "this is for Allah".
John Stokes, a bus tour guide, said that he and the driver counted eight people lying on the road.
The three men then ran down to Borough Market.
What happened in Borough Market?
The three men appear to have stabbed people at random in the market.
They rampaged through the area, entering the many pubs and restaurants to stab anyone in sight.
Crowds in the bars fought back - hurling pint glasses, bottles and chairs at the attackers.
One woman was stabbed repeatedly, according to a man named Gerard, who was trying to drive the attacker away by hurling chairs at him.
A security guard who works across multiple bars and pubs in Borough Market told the BBC he saw the attackers after receiving a call from a colleague in another bar who said people had been stabbed.
The security guard described people running away screaming from three men. He and his colleagues tried to throw chairs at the attackers, who were going in and out of different bars.
Within eight minutes police were on the scene and opened fire, killing the three attackers.
Photos on social media showed two of the men on the ground. One of them, in front of the Wheatsheaf pub, had what appeared to be canisters strapped to his abdomen.
Police later said that the canisters were fake.
Another eyewitnesses said she saw police and two robots - she speculated that the robots could be there to disarm the canisters.
At 10.08pm police responded to a call about a white van ramming into five or six people on London Bridge.
The van reportedly veered off the road and drove into people on the pavement.
Paramedics were on the scene six minutes later, the London Ambulance Service said.
Police are piecing together eyewitness accounts, and believe that three men got out of the van and started attacking people with knives.
An eyewitness, Eric, told the BBC that he heard shouts of "this is for Allah".
John Stokes, a bus tour guide, said that he and the driver counted eight people lying on the road.
The three men then ran down to Borough Market.
What happened in Borough Market?
The three men appear to have stabbed people at random in the market.
They rampaged through the area, entering the many pubs and restaurants to stab anyone in sight.
Crowds in the bars fought back - hurling pint glasses, bottles and chairs at the attackers.
One woman was stabbed repeatedly, according to a man named Gerard, who was trying to drive the attacker away by hurling chairs at him.
A security guard who works across multiple bars and pubs in Borough Market told the BBC he saw the attackers after receiving a call from a colleague in another bar who said people had been stabbed.
The security guard described people running away screaming from three men. He and his colleagues tried to throw chairs at the attackers, who were going in and out of different bars.
Within eight minutes police were on the scene and opened fire, killing the three attackers.
Photos on social media showed two of the men on the ground. One of them, in front of the Wheatsheaf pub, had what appeared to be canisters strapped to his abdomen.
Police later said that the canisters were fake.
Another eyewitnesses said she saw police and two robots - she speculated that the robots could be there to disarm the canisters.