Large numbers of police and other emergency vehicles are attending an incident outside the landmark and top tourist destination the Natural History Museum in London Saturday afternoon, as reports state a vehicle mounted the pavement.
Eyewitnesses to the scene outside the renowned Kensington Museum on exhibition road Saturday reported seeing large numbers of police cars and armed police on Exhibition Road, with injured people being put into ambulances.
There has been one arrest of a male and police say “Enquiries to establish the circumstances and motive are underway.”
Video footage taken by purported eye-witnesses and uploaded to microblogging platform Twitter shows the apparent carnage around the world-famous museum immediately after the incident, with debris scattered across the floor, and four men pinning another to the ground, in an apparent citizen’s arrest.
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Scene outside Natural History Museum in London as police arrest man who mounted pavement and hit pedestrians… pic.twitter.com/WEY2vnlh5r
— Raheem (@RaheemKassam) October 7, 2017
Reports on the ground of a car being driven into people outside the Natural History Museum. All media free to use this video. pic.twitter.com/10ePBhqVMF
— Patrick Greenfield (@pgreenfielduk) October 7, 2017
A police statement released shortly after the incident stated the force had been called at 1421 and that they believed “a number of pedestrians have been injured”.
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