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Article snippet: LONDON — The bars and streets near the Thames River were packed with “innocent Londoners and visitors to our city enjoying their Saturday night,” as Mayor Sadiq Khan would soon put it. Suddenly, a white van began swerving on London Bridge, hitting pedestrians, in a scene hauntingly reminiscent of the deadly chaos on Westminster Bridge in March. “We were close to the bridge, about to drive over it and then traffic suddenly stopped,” said a witness, Lorna Murray. ”People got out of their cars and started running towards us.” “Police and ambulances rushed to the scene and told us to get out of our cars and get as far away as possible,” Ms. Murray said, adding, “we saw the white van that apparently rammed into people.” The attack on the bridge, soon followed by reports of stabbings at a nearby night life district, came as Britain was still reeling from the bombing at an Ariana Grande concert last month in Manchester, which took the lives of 22 people, including children and teenagers. But while the Manchester attack appeared to have been carried out by a lone bomber, Saturday night’s violence was the work of at least three people, officials said Sunday morning, as the assailants drove from the bridge to Borough Market, where the police fatally shot them. In addition to the three attackers, six people were killed, and 48 were hospitalized. Video from a crowded bar near the bridge showed patrons in a cavernous space being ordered to the ground by police officers and hu... Link to the full article to read more