Several people have been injured in a suspected terror attack and a man has been shot by police at London Bridge in London.

For more information as the story develops visit https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/london-bridge-news-live-gunshots-reports-station-a4300626.html

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DAVID MARSLAND

Thank you for listening to The Leader and remember you can subscribe and rate us through your favorite podcast provider. As this podcast was being put together reports started coming in to the Evening Standards newsroom of an incident on London Bridge, that incident as we're recording this is still ongoing. But our journalists Suze Cooper from our audio news team is here working on the story. What do we know at this point in time?

SUZE COOPER (GOOGLE NEWS)

Well, we heard that just before two o'clock today police were called to London Bridge. They've now declared this a major incident. The reports initially were of gunshots. We've since found out that someone has been injured in a knife attack, possibly more than one person. As we say, this is a breaking story at the moment. We're not totally clear on all the details. And we believe a man has been shot by police at London Bridge and yeah, there's total confusion in that area of London at the moment.

DAVID MARSLAND

And we're seeing a lot of reaction on social media, a lot of people sharing videos and images. It does look like pandemonium over there.

SUZE COOPER (GOOGLE NEWS)

That's right. There's a lot coming through on social media at the moment, on Twitter. There have been videos and photos as well photos of lots of emergency service vehicles just parked up there on the bridge. Crowds of people being held back on the on the footpath there. But also a video of someone lying on the ground, kind of being...

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