London attack: 12 arrested in Barking after van and knife attack

Twelve people have been arrested after the London terror attack which left seven people dead and 48 injured.

The arrests in Barking, east London, followed a raid at a flat belonging to one of the three attackers.


A van hit pedestrians on London Bridge at 21:58 BST on Saturday. Three men then got out and stabbed people in nearby Borough Market.

The attackers were shot dead by eight officers who fired 50 bullets. A member of the public was accidentally shot.

The member of the public remains in hospital in a non-critical condition, Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said.
"The situation these officers were confronted with was critical, a matter of life and death - three armed men wearing what appeared to be suicide belts," he said.

"They had already attacked and killed members of the public and had to be stopped immediately."
The suspected suicide vests were later found to be hoaxes.

Thirty-six people are in hospital with a "range of injuries", he said, and 21 are in a critical condition.
Malik Ramadhan, a doctor at the Royal London Hospital, told the Guardian that his team treated one man with a gunshot wound.

"There's a patient in this hospital who's been shot in the head; a man. He's absolutely not dying," he said.

"Our expectation is that he will make a full recovery."

Source BBC