Within eight minutes suspects were dead: timeline of the London Bridge attack

Taxi dashcam footage shows police and casualties on London Bridge after attack

The attack at London Bridge and Borough Market has left seven people dead and 48 injured. Police have shot dead three attackers. Here is a timeline of how the night unfolded.

• 10.07pm – The London Ambulance Service is called to an incident at London Bridge.

• 10.08pm – Police are called to reports of a van hitting pedestrians on London Bridge. Witness accounts emerge of a van driving into a crowd of people at about 50mph and several bodies on the street.

An emergency response helicopter lands on London Bridge. Photograph: Chris J Ratcliffe/AFP/Getty Images

• The van then continues down Borough High Street where it crashes outside the Barrow Boy and Banker pub and the attackers jump out.

• Witnesses report seeing attackers stabbing people in Borough Market along Stoney Street near Brindisa restaurant, El Pastor tapas restaurant, the Wheatsheaf Pub, Roast restaurant and Black and Blue restaurant. Their accounts of the violence are horrifying.

Map of London Bridge attacks

• 10.14pm – London Ambulance Service paramedics arrive at the scene.

Police and members of the emergency services attend to victims of a terror attack on London Bridge. Photograph: Daniel Sorabji/AFP/Getty Images

• 10.16pm – Armed officers arrive on the scene and shoot the three attackers dead outside the Wheatsheaf Pub.

A picture that has been circulating showing a man on the ground; he appears to have canisters strapped to his body. The Guardian is not showing his face until his identity and connection to the incident has been established. Photograph: Gabriele Sciotto

• 11.46pm – Police issue the Run, Hide, Tell advice for the first time.

Screengrab from the tweet issued by Metropolitan Police advising people what to do if they were caught up in the terrorist incidents at London Bridge and Borough Market. Photograph: Metropolitan Police/PA

• 11.55pm – British Transport Police confirm “multiple casualties”.

• 12.30am – The prime minister, Theresa May, releases a statement saying the “terrible incident” was being treated as a “potential act of terrorism”.

• 12.51am – Police say the Vauxhall incident is a stabbing and not connected to the situation at London Bridge and Borough Market.

• 1.23am – Police carry out four controlled explosions in the London Bridge area.

Aerial view of London Bridge attacks

• 4am – In a press conference assistant chief commissioner Mike Rowley says six people have died and 20 casualties have been taken to London hospitals. He says three attackers wearing “hoax” suicide vests have been killed by police. One of the victims injured is a member of the British Transport Police, he says.
  Asst chief commissioner Rowley says: “The suspects had been confronted and shot by the police within eight minutes of the first call.”

• 6.10am The London Ambulance service increases the number of injured to 48.

• 9.35am Metropolitan police commissioner Cressida Dick confirms the number of victim fatalities has risen to seven.