A van was deliberately driven into pedestrians on London Bridge, and then crashed on Borough High Street, just south of the River Thames.

The van's three occupants then ran to the nearby Borough Market area and began stabbing people in and around restaurants and pubs.

[9] Eight people were killed and 48 were injured, including members of the public and four unarmed police officers who attempted to stop the assailants.

[10][11] The attack was carried out using a white Renault Master hired earlier on the same evening[12] in Harold Hill, Havering by Khuram Butt.

The attackers were armed with 12-inch (30 cm) kitchen knives with ceramic blades, which they tied to their wrists with leather straps.

Then they ran down the steps to Green Dragon Court, where they killed five people outside and near the Boro Bistro pub.

Police tried to fight the attackers, but were stabbed, and Ignacio Echeverría helped them by striking Redouane and possibly Zaghba with his skateboard.

[27] One man fought the three attackers with his fists in the Black and Blue steakhouse, shouting "Fuck you, I'm Millwall", giving members of the public who were in the restaurant the opportunity to run away.

[29] A British Transport Police officer armed with a baton also took on the attackers, receiving multiple stab wounds and temporarily losing sight in his right eye as a consequence.

[30] Off-duty Metropolitan police constables Liam Jones and Stewart Henderson rendered first aid to seriously injured members of the public before protecting 150+ people inside the Thameside Inn and evacuating them by Metropolitan marine support unit and RNLI boats to the north shore of the Thames.

[citation needed] The three attackers were shot dead by armed officers from the City of London and Metropolitan police Specialist Firearms Command eight minutes after the initial emergency call was made.

[33] The Metropolitan Police issued 'Run, Hide, Tell' notices via social media during the attack,[34] and asked for the public to remain calm and vigilant.

[37] The mainline railway stations at London Bridge, Waterloo East, Charing Cross and Cannon Street were also closed.

[38] The Home Secretary approved the deployment of a military counter terrorist unit from the Special Air Service (SAS).

[39] The helicopters carrying the SAS landed on London Bridge to support the Metropolitan Police because of concerns that there might be more attackers at large.

[63] On 4 June the Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, said that "We are confident about the fact that they were radical Islamic terrorists, the way they were inspired, and we need to find out more about where this radicalisation came from.

Neighbours told the BBC that Butt had been reported to police for attempting to radicalise children; he had also expressed disgust at the way women dressed.

[70] A BBC interviewee said he had a verbal confrontation with Butt in 2013 on the day after another Al-Muhajiroun follower had murdered Fusilier Lee Rigby.

[71] Butt was part of an al-Muhajiroun campaign in 2015 to intimidate Muslims who planned to vote in the UK general elections of that year, on the basis that it was forbidden in Islam.

[72] He appeared in a 2016 Channel 4 Television documentary, The Jihadis Next Door, which showed him arguing with police over the unfurling of an ISIL black flag in Regent's Park.

[79] Butt had worked for a man accused of training Mohammad Sidique Khan, the leader of the July 2005 London bombing.

Zaghba (born 1995 in Fez, Morocco[6]) was at the time of the attack living in east London where he worked in a fast-food outlet.

[92] Zaghba was born to a Moroccan Muslim father and an Italian Catholic Christian mother who had converted to Islam when she married.

[104] On 7 May 2019, an inquest into the deaths of the victims opened at the Old Bailey in London with Judge Mark Lucraft QC, Chief Coroner of England and Wales presiding.

A separate inquest was held to investigate the lawfulness of the deadly force used against the attackers also presided over by Judge Mark Lucraft QC.

As part of a four-point plan to tackle terrorism, she called for tighter internet regulations to "deprive the extremists of their safe spaces online", saying that technology firms were not currently doing enough.

[111] May was also criticised for using the speech to detail policy measures to respond to the terror threat, which some saw as contrary to her pledge to pause campaigning out of respect for the victims.

[152] Four civilians were awarded the Queen's Commendation for Bravery: Kirsty Boden (posthumous); Ellen Gauntlett; Justin Jones; and Florin Morariu.

[153] Joy Ongcachuy, Acting Detective Zac Idun, London Ambulance Service operations director Paul Woodrow, NHS England administrator Peter Boorman, Malik Ramadhan and Claire Summers were awarded OBEs for, variously, responding to the attacks, treating victims and liaising with their families, and conducting related investigations.

[154][152] After the attack, the Australian and Saudi Arabian men's football teams had a World Cup qualifier match in Adelaide.