Breaking news London, vehicle

[Hobo]

Plows into pedestrians, number of casualties

[Different Drummer]

1. ...

[shenmue]

3. ...

[dalton99a]

2. One person arrested.

[Ms. Toad]

4. Tweet about travel ban in 3...2...1...

Plus unverified assertions about terrorist attack based on ramblins in Breitbart.

[samnsara]

5. not again :(

[brettdale]

6. official police

"No indication this is terrorism"

I guess that could change.

The poor people of London, how much bad luck can one city have.

[R B Garr]

7. Again?! Poor London!

Dang,

[mucifer]

8. This sometimes happens with the elderly or someone falling asleep at the wheel.

It has happened before like that in Chicago with an elderly driver. It was very tragic people died.

[grossproffit]

10. Sadly, this appears to have been purposeful.

[Jim Beard]

22. It happened before an Oklahoma State homecomming parade in 2015

Young woman purposefully accelerated car around blocked intersection in 2015

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/adacia-chambers-oklahoma-state-homecoming-crash-sentenced/

STILLWATER, Okla. -- A woman charged with killing four people and injuring dozens more by driving her car into spectators at Oklahoma State University’s 2015 homecoming parade was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison after accepting a plea deal.

Adacia Chambers, 26, was sentenced in Payne County District Court after pleading no contest to four counts of second-degree murder and 39 counts of assault and battery.

[LesterKasai]

9. Report saying driver veered into crowd standing outside a mosque.

[brettdale]

11. driver targeted Muslims

Ran them over, stabbed people according to witness reports.

Witness are sayings its a hate crime.

I guess all this could change and be completely wrong.

It appears though the attacker hated muslims.

[trentwestcott]

28. Let's all pray that there isn't a backlash against non-muslims

Most non-muslims condemn this kind of behavior. Let's all pray that there's no backlash against peace-loving non-muslims...

[cwydro]

15. What report?

Link?

[LesterKasai]

18. link

https://www.yahoo.com/news/police-vehicle-strikes-several-pedestrians-london-road-003128802.html

[Glimmer of Hope]

12. Oh no. Make it stop.

[Gothmog]

13. This attacked apparently targeted Muslims leaving late prayer services

[geek tragedy]

14. Which means the media will quickly dismiss it nt

[malaise]

32. Ding ding

we have a winner

[cwydro]

17. Can you fill us in where you read or heard this? nt

[Gothmog]

19. MSNBC news feed

[cwydro]

23. Thanks. Not near tv right now.

Spotty service on my phone.

[Gothmog]

21. From WaPo

This is on Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/van-strikes-crowd-outside-mosque-in-london-one-person-is-arrested/2017/06/18/5a93993e-5489-11e7-b38e-35fd8e0c288f_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-banner-main_london-915pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.0b8939b16f6f

Early witness reports suggested that pedestrians had been struck as they left late-night prayers for the holy month of Ramadan.

Video posted on social media showed people screaming as bystanders performed chest compressions on one of the injured, and another man held a bloody cloth to his head.

[edhopper]

16. will be called one lone deranged soul

can't be terrorism unless the assailant is Muslim.

[cwydro]

31. Looks like you jumped to the wrong conclusion.

It's being called terrorism...an act of terror.

[edhopper]

34. In England for sure

I was thinking of our Dear Leader and the Republiscums.

[hrmjustin]

20. Horrific!

My prayers for the victims.

[inanna]

24. Guardian is now reporting that counter-terrorism police are investigating.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2017/jun/19/north-london-van-incident-finsbury-park-casualties-collides-pedestrians-live-updates

[TheBlackAdder]

25. ...

[DrivingOnThe Left]

26. Many reports say that there were three men in the van.

Two ran off while members of the public detained the other man. There is a lot of anger in the area that this isn't being called out as a terrorist incident.

[Warpy]

27. According to Sky News (yeah, I know)

the antiterrorism unit is on the scene. They are treating this as a terrorist attack.

I keep hoping one of these things is going to be a garden variety drunk jumping the curb, but no such luck so far.

[Maximus Decimus Meri]

30. Weighing up the consequences of each option.

I think it is better to assume it is terrorism and start an investigation and be proven wrong than to assume is not and do nothing and be proven wrong.

The consequences of being wrong for the former are that you have to apologize and look like and idiot, but in the latter case the consequences are even more innocent people being killed.

[Not Ruth]

29. Those poor people

Manchester, London Bridge and now this. Trouble comes in threes.

[Lee-Lee]

33. I fear this is how sectarian breakdowns start

On group feels assaulted on by another group and then they strike out and the tit for that gets out of hand...

And on the radio I just heard of some attack in Paris now?