A student has described seeing three bodies across the floor after a van was driven into a crowd of people near The Strand, Central London.
Giangiacomo, who did not give his surname, was at the scene shortly after the incident happened this morning and said he saw CPR being carried out on one person.
The King’s College student, 20, told the Express people were “seriously injured” and there were around 30 emergency service vehicles.
He said: “It’s kind of weird because it’s a pedestrian area. Cars don’t transit on this [left] side, rather this right side.”
The student said he thinks the van either passed through bollards that were lowered down or “accelerated really fast” and passed through the grass at “high speed”.
One woman died in the incident, and the Metropolitan Police said the driver of the van, a 26-year-old man, was arrested at the scene on suspicion of causing death by careless driving and driving with a concentration of a specified controlled drug above the specified limit.
Police said the incident is not being treated as terror-related and that a crime scene remains in place while enquiries continue.
One pedestrian is in hospital with potentially life-threatening injuries, and the second is also in hospital with minor injuries.
Emergency services were called to the incident near The Strand at 11.40 am this morning.
Pictures from the scene show police and paramedics near the entrance to King’s College.
