Image copyright Roxane Wephre Image caption Police are not treating the crash as being terrorist-related

Three people were taken to hospital after a car ploughed into a large group of people outside a north London pub.

Witnesses reported bodies being thrown "in the air" when the car mounted the pavement outside the Old Queen's Head in Islington on Saturday night.

Two knives were found at the scene but police said they are not treating the crash as terrorist-related.

Five men have been arrested. None of those hurt are thought to have life-threatening injuries.

Image copyright Shulem Stern Image caption One knife was found in the car while another was discovered nearby

Cassandra Pessaran told the BBC there were "30-odd" people standing outside the pub in Essex Road just before 23:00 BST.

She said she heard "screeching tyres" then saw a vehicle "playing bumper cars with about three other cars... before going straight into a crowd of people".

Aris Papachronopoulos said he "saw three people in the air" after the car drove "into the whole group".

Two men and a woman are being treated in hospital.

Image caption Witnesses said about 30 people had been outside the Old Queen's Head pub

Four of the arrested men, who remain in custody, were held are aged between 17 and 19.

They were detained on suspicion of a variety of offences including GBH with intent and possession of points and blades, the Met said.

One knife was found in the car while another was discovered nearby.

A fifth man was arrested on Sunday afternoon on suspicion of involvement in the incident. he is also in custody.

Islington South and Finsbury MP Emily Thornberry called the crash a "really horrible and frightening incident".

But she said it was important that people "keep calm... and must not panic" as police had said "it does not look like a terrorist incident". </s> At least 8 people have been injured after a car ploughed into pedestrians outside Amsterdam's Centraal station.

According to police reports the driver of the vehicle was parked illegally and attempted to speed off when approached by police. He hit a wall crashing into a crowd of people.

Police pulled the driver from the vehicle, as paramedics tended to the wounded. Two people are said to be in a serious condition.

The motorist has been described as incapacitated after being taken unwell. Police said the driver had no intention of driving into the pedestrians.

While the incident sparked a major police response officials denied any suggestion of a terror attack.

Police spokeswoman Marjolein Koek said: "There is no indication whatsoever that this is a terrorist attack" .

The square outside Centraal Station was sealed off by police as they searched the car Mail Online reports.

Security Services in the Netherlands has been on high alert since the London Bridge attack a week ago. </s> A car crashed against a wall at around 9 pm in front of the Amsterdam Central Station on Saturday injuring eight people, Amsterdam police said.

The driver of the car was arrested and taken to the police station for questioning. His car is being investigated. The area in front of the station was sealed after the incident. Of the eight injured people, two have been taken to the hospital, Xinhua reported.

Witnesses described the scene as ‘horrifying’.

According to the statement by the Amsterdam police, the car was parked at a place where that was not allowed, after which police officers told the car driver about his obstruction.

The car driver then drove away with high speed across the Stationsplein square in front of the station, hitting several people and crashing to the subway entrance wall.

This comes exactly a week after the terrorists’ rammed a white van onto pedestrians on London Bridge. The three attackers later abandoned the van and went to the nearby Borough Market and began a stabbing spree.

Police said the three men — Butt, Rachid Redouane and Youssef Zaghba — had driven up and down London Bridge twice before carrying out the attack, in what appeared as a dry run. </s> London police said Wednesday they discovered two improvised explosive devices in an apartment and the counter terrorism command is involved, but officials are “keeping an open mind” about how the devices came to be there.

The report of suspicious devices at an unoccupied apartment in the Craven Park section in Harlesden, northwest London, just after 9:30 a.m. local time (4:30 a.m. ET) prompted the evacuation of a block of apartments, London’s Metropolitan Police Service said in a statement.

An initial assessment determined the devices were IEDs and they were rendered safe, police said. The unoccupied apartment was being refurbished.

“At this early stage, officers are keeping an open mind as to how or why the devices came to be there,” police said.

The United Kingdom is under a threat level for international terrorism of “severe.”

The country has experienced several terror attacks in recent years, including the March of 2017 car-ramming and stabbing attack on Westminster Bridge and near Parliament in which killed five people, including police officer Keith Palmer.

In June of 2017, eight people were killed after three attackers drove a vehicle into pedestrians on the London Bridge and then embarked on a stabbing rampage at a nearby market. The three assailants were killed by police. </s> LONDON: A man deliberately drove a car into London pedestrians and cyclists on Tuesday before ramming it into barriers outside Britain's parliament in what appeared to be the second terrorist attack at the building in just under 18 months, police said.

Three people were injured. The driver, a man in his 20s, was arrested by armed officers moments later. He was not cooperating with detectives, the British police counter-terrorism chief said.

"Given that this appears to be a deliberate act, the method, and this being an iconic site, we are treating it as a terrorist incident," the officer, London Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, told reporters.

In March 2017, Khalid Masood, 52, killed four people on nearby Westminster Bridge and stabbed an unarmed police officer to death in the grounds of parliament before being shot dead.

It was the first of five attacks in Britain last year that police designated as terrorism, three of which used vehicles as weapons.

Basu said the suspect in Tuesday's incident was in custody but not cooperating. He said the man had not been formally identified but was not believed to be known to security forces.

The BBC, citing unnamed sources, said the man was from the Birmingham area and known to police, although not to intelligence or counter-terrorism agencies.

Basu said there were currently no other suspects from the scene of the incident and no indications of further danger.

Police said a silver Ford Fiesta had driven through a group of cyclists and pedestrians during the morning rush hour before hitting a barrier in front of the Houses of Parliament at 7:37 a.m.(0637 GMT).

Video footage showed the vehicle making an illegal turn before veering across the road and into a security lane leading to parliament before smashing into the protective barrier as two police officers jumped to safety.

The man was detained on suspicion of terrorist offences and no weapons were found, Basu said.

Two people were taken to hospital and one woman was still receiving treatment for serious but not life-threatening injuries.

Armed officers swarmed the scene and sealed off a large area around parliament that is usually bustling with tourists and government workers.

"I saw the cyclists, injured cyclists. I don't know if he's hit these people or if they've just dived to escape," bystander Jason Williams told reporters.

"It didn't swerve, there was not another car going behind him. It looked like it was planned.

" Images shot by a Euronews journalist showed police pointing their guns at the vehicle shortly after the crash. Footage on social media showed a man being led away in handcuffs.

Prime Minister Theresa May, who like other lawmakers is on holiday during parliament's summer recess, urged Britons to remain vigilant but to carry on as normal.

"For the second time in as many years the home of our democracy, which is a potent symbol of our precious values of tolerance and freedom, has just witnessed terrible scenes just yards from its door," she said in a statement.

Britain is on its second-highest threat level, "severe", meaning an attack is considered highly likely.

May's spokesman said that, since Masood's attack in Westminster last year, 13 Islamist and four far-right plots had been foiled.

At the end of June, security services were carrying out 676 live investigations.

Last week, a Muslim convert admitted plotting to kill more than 100 people by driving a truck into pedestrians on London's Oxford Street, the capital's major shopping thoroughfare.

U.S. President Donald Trump, who has previously spoken out about security issues in London, tweeted: "These animals are crazy and must be dealt with through toughness and strength".

Cordons around parliament began to be lifted about six hours after the incident and Westminster Underground station, close to parliament, was reopened. However, streets immediately surrounding the scene remained closed off.
A vehicle mounts the pavement and runs into pedestrians in Islington, London, injuring 4. The teenage perpetrators are found carrying offensive weapons, but are not assumed to be terrorists.