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  • LEAVE IT THERE.

  • THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME, SIR.

  • >> Connell: BREAKING NEWS IS

  • COMING TO US FROM LONDON.

  • WE'RE JUST HEARING OF REPORTS

  • LONDON BRIDGE HAS BEEN LOCKED

  • DOWN.

  • POLICE MAY HAVE SHOT A SUSPECT,

  • BENJAMIN HALL LIVE IN THE

  • LONDON NEWSROOM MONITORING THE

  • SITUATION.

  • WHAT DO WE KNOW?

  • >> GOOD MORNING.

  • THIS NEWS JUST BREAKING IN THE

  • LAST HALF HOUR OR SO.

  • THE METROPOLITAN POLICE

  • CONFIRMING A MAN HAS BEEN SHOT

  • AND KILLED ON LONDON BRIDGE.

  • THE CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING

  • IT ARE UNCLEAR AT THE MOMENT

  • BUT EYEWITNESSES SAY THERE WAS

  • A MAN BEING RESTRAINED BY

  • OFFICERS ON THAT BRIDGE SHORTLY

  • AFTERWARDS GUNSHOTS WERE HEARD

  • AND THAT MAN NOW CONFIRMED TO

  • BE DEAD.

  • ARMED OFFICERS SWARMING OVER

  • THE BRIDGE.

  • IT HAS BEEN EVACUATED ON BOTH

  • SIDES.

  • TRAFFIC IN THE WHOLE AREA HAS

  • BEEN SHUT DOWN.

  • THIS IS BEING TREATED AS A

  • MAJOR INCIDENT.

  • NOT CLEAR IF IT IS CRIMINAL OR

  • TERRORISM.

  • BUT CERTAINLY THE METROPOLITAN

  • POLICE TAKING NO CHANCES AT ALL.

  • A MAN ON LONDON BRIDGE

  • CONFIRMED SHOT AND KILLED.

  • THIS IS THE SITE BACK IN 2017

  • OF A MAJOR TERROR ATTACK HERE

  • IN LONDON.

  • EVER SINCE THEN POLICE HAVE

  • PICKED UP SECURITY ON BRIDGES

  • LIKE THIS AS A RESULT.

  • THERE ARE POLICE UP AND DOWN IT.

  • SO THAT'S WHAT WE KNOW AT THE

  • MOMENT.

  • A MAN SHOT AND KILLED ON LONDON

  • BRIDGE.

  • WHETHER IT'S TERRORISM OR

  • CRIMINAL WE JUST DON'T KNOW AT

  • THIS POINT.

  • THAT PART OF LONDON CERTAINLY

  • BEING SHUT DOWN COMPLETELY AT

  • THE MOMENT AND ARMED OFFICERS

  • ON SCENE.

  • >> Connell: WE DON'T KNOW HOW

  • IT BEGAN AND WHETHER ANY OF THE

  • SHOOTING WAS DONE BY THE MAN

  • HIMSELF OR WHETHER IT WAS JUST

  • THE POLICE.

  • WE DON'T KNOW ANY OF THE

  • CIRCUMSTANCES ABOUT HOW IT

  • STARTED?

  • >> EYEWITNESS REPORTS SUGGEST

  • THERE WAS A FIGHT ON THE BRIDGE.

  • THERE HAVE BEEN SOME REPORTS ON

  • SKY NEWS THERE WAS A MAN

  • ATTACKING PEOPLE WITH A KNIFE.

  • UNCONFIRMED.

  • MEDIA ARE REPORTING IT OVER

  • HERE AND IT LED QUICKLY TO

  • SHOTS BEING FIRED AND THIS MAN

  • BEING KILLED.

  • WHEN WE FIRST HEARD ABOUT THIS

  • INCIDENT TO WHEN THAT NEWS --

  • CONFIRMATION THAT A MAN HAD

  • BEEN KILLED WAS A MATTER OF 20

  • MINUTES.

  • VERY FAST POLICE RESPONSE.

  • THAT WILL COME DOWN TO THE

  • PREPARATION BY POLICE

  • PARTICULARLY ON BRIDGES LIKE

  • THAT IN SUCH SENSITIVE AREAS.

  • >> Connell: WE'LL BE BACK TO

  • YOU.

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