A terrified man heard people shouting “gun shot, run for your life” after one person was killed and several injured in a terror attack in central London.

Police shot dead a man on London Bridge after several people were injured in what police are treating as a terror attack.

Nearby Borough Market was also evacuated with people fleeing the scene and being locked inside restaurants.

One witness described the incident as the scariest moment of his life

He said: “People shouted there is gun shot, run for your life.

“It was honestly the scariest moment of my life.”

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Another onlooker said: “I saw on the other side of the bridge a big scuffle with people trying to get someone to the ground.

“I just immediately called 999 and then it was quite hard to see what happened as there were cars in the way.

“A police car appeared and two police men got out and took over. There was lots of shouting, people were there trying to restrain a man (on the floor) before they fired the gun.

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“I heard and saw (the gun fire).

“The police arrived as it was going on, it was extremely quick maybe a minute from them arriving and the shots being fired. It was two gun shots.

“There was a person on the ground, police told people to get away and I ran off the bridge.”

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Footage shows armed cops aiming their guns at a man lying on the ground on the north side of the bridge.

They asked members of the public to step away from the man before he was shot by one of the firearms officers.

It is reported six people have been injured with three in a life-threatening condition.

Another man described the panic as they were told to get on the floor after buying food from a stall.

He said: “We were told ‘get down, get down’ so we dived down by an area where we bought food from.

“There was nowhere to go really, the place cleared. I looked up there seemed to be a flash someone running, I don’t know what it was whether it was gun fire or not.

“Everyone was very shaken and then when it was over we looked to see if everyone okay.”

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