Twelve detained in connection with London terror attack

Twelve people have been arrested in Barking, east London, in connection with the London Bridge attack, the Metropolitan Police Service said.

At least four police vans were stationed behind a cordon outside the Elizabeth Fry flats in King's Road, Barking, and residents reported hearing bangs on Sunday morning.

Some neighbours said a photograph of one of the attackers resembled a man who lived in one of the flats.

More than five hours after the first arrests, a woman in a burka was led into a police van parked outside the flats.

It then drove away with sirens blazing, followed by three other vans.

Witnesses also reported seeing armed police swoop on a flat above a shop in East Ham at around 2pm and dragged two suspects away.

Witnesses say two men were dragged out and taken away in police vans.

Local resident Malik Rouf, 30, said one of the men inside the flat jumped out of a first floor window on to a ledge before he was pulled back inside.

"He was about 30 years old and in a vest - he tried to go out the window but the officer was standing with a gun saying 'get back in, get back in'," he told the Press Association.