London attack: Union Jack flags across capital and world lowered to half mast after London Bridge terror

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Flags across the capital and the rest of the world are being lowered to half mast today in the wake of Saturday night’s horrific attack in London Bridge.

Parliament announced their flags were flying at half mast while town halls and council buildings elsewhere in London also joined in as a mark of respect.

It followed the terror attack on London Bridge and Borough Market at just after 10pm on Saturday night which left at least seven people dead and 48 others injured.

Witnesses described seeing people running for the lives as other walked in a “zombiefied” state after a car ploughed into pedestrians on the bridge.

A hotel at the Shard lowers their flag to half-mast.
Reuters

Shortly after people reported multiple stabbings by attacks in and around pubs in busy nightspot Borough Market.

On Sunday, the headquarters of MI5 security services lowered their Union Jack as did Buckingham Palace.

City Hall and councils across London and the UK also lowered their flags and the Shangri-La Hotel at the Shard – just metres from where the attack happened – raised their Union Jack and EU flags to half mast.

Elsewhere, the headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels joined in the show of solidarity with the UK at a special request by the EU President Jean-Claude Juncker.

The British Embassy in Berlin, Germany, as did the Consulate in Istanbul and the Scottish Parliament.

The attackers were shot dead by officers just eight minutes after the emergency call came in.

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