The officer in overall command of the emergency services’ response on the night of the London Bridge attacks has told the inquest they performed exceptionally in what was “a war zone on the streets of London”. Three assailants killed eight people and seriously injured 48 on the night of 3 June 2017 before being shot dead. The delay in London Ambulance staff attending to some of the most seriously injured has come under scrutiny during the inquest. But Supt Ross McKibbin of the Metropolitan police, who was in charge of all three emergency services on the night, said on Monday that they were faced with an array of confused information from hundreds of unverified reports. McKibbin said currently the technology did not allow police officers to discern where ambulances were, only police vehicles.

Source: The Guardian June 10, 2019 17:37 UTC