‘It was chaos’: Two years on from attack that killed eight, terror puts London Bridge on lockdown again

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Two years after rampaging knifemen killed eight people in London Bridge, traders and shoppers at Borough Market were once again forced to flee as terror returned to one of the capital’s busiest areas. “The noise of the screams was extraordinary, I’ve never heard anything like it.” The scene brought back “horrible memories,” said Mr Crouch, who was working on the night of the June 2017 attack and whose two children barricaded themselves in his business’s storeroom as the latest violence unfolded. “Suddenly a trader told me the ice-cream seller on the bridge has run away yelling … People were taking refuge in our shop before we got told.” Teenage pupils and staff at nearby Kaplan business school were locked inside as the incident unfolded before being escorted out by armed police. On the north side of London Bridge, closest to where the attacker was shot dead by police, a huge exclusion zone left part of the capital’s business district eerily empty.