A van has been driven into a crowd of people in central London this afternoon. The Metropolitan Police have confirmed that several pedestrians were hit on the Strand.

Police and paramedics are currently at King’s College in the Aldwych area. Police said the crash was not terror-related.

One witness at the scene told LBC they heard “a few girls may have been hit” They said: “I’m waiting for my friends to come out, they sound pretty shaken but I don’t know what they saw.”

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