statement from nottinghamshire police that just came statement from nottinghamshire police thatjust came into us, which said that police are keeping an open mind over the motive of the attack. they said they are working alongside counterterrorist policing to establish the facts. they did stress that they would normally do that in this type of circumstance. they say that the man still remains in custody, 31—year—old man, on suspicion of murder. they don't believe anyone else was involved in this incident. they did say earlier, in an earlier statement, that they believed these three incidents were linked. as the police have said, they are keeping an open mind. it is still not quite clear how the event unfolded, but the team here at bbc verified, have been working to piece it all together. here is my colleague, courtney bembridge. these are the scenes — colleague, courtney bembridge. these are the scenes people _ colleague, courtney bembridge. these are the scenes people in _ colleague, courtney bembridge. tire are the scenes people in nottingham woke up to this morning. police lights flashing and cars filling the street. at around 4am the call came

in to say to people had been found deadin in to say to people had been found dead in the street. to give you an idea of where that incident took place in relation to the rest of the city, that is marked here. two people found dead on ilkeston road. we have got three other areas that we are going to focus on, including where people were injured. another man was found dead and also where the 31—year—old man was arrested. first of all we have got the area heading into the city where two people were found dead. this is a major road heading into the city centre. it is a mix of houses and businesses, and once we get into the city centre is where the second incident is believed to have taken place. this is milton street. it is a very pedestrian friendly area, a large shopping centre here. this is where of that is believed to have hit three people who are currently in hospital. then we have other large parts of the city here cordoned off at the moment with police investigating. we have a

third incident at magdala road, which is to the north. three separate incidents, but police are very much treating them as part of the same incident. they are spread across the city and the distances between these are about ten minutes by car. police are still trying to work out in sally what happened and build a complex timeline of how it all unfolded.— all unfolded. that is the latest from my colleague, _ all unfolded. that is the latest from my colleague, courtney. from my colleague, courtney bembridge, and the team at bbc verified. if you are justjoining bembridge, and the team at bbc verified. if you arejustjoining us we do have an update from nottinghamshire police. they say they are keeping an open mind over they are keeping an open mind over the motive of the attack. we have also had an update on the condition of three people who were in hospital. police say that van had attempted to run them over. one man is still in hospital in a critical condition. two others are believed to have suffered injuries. we know

that three people died, two of them in the incident on ilkeston road, just after liam, another man was found dead on magdala road shortly afterwards. we know that police have arrested a 31—year—old man on suspicion of murder, and he remains in police custody. crucially, and we can see these pictures that we showed a little earlier, a number of roads, major roads in nottingham city centre, remain closed as that investigation is under way, and continues. most of the footage we are seeing, you can still see a lot of activity from the forensic police there. there is a number of people in these images that came to us earlier in the day. police say that, at the moment, they are not looking for anyone else in connection with these attacks. they do have a team of dedicated detectives who are investigating the circumstances as we said at the top of that new police statement. they say that they

are keeping an open mind. the other thing that is important to pull out from the police statement is that they say they are also working alongside counterterrorism policing to establish the facts. they do stress that they would normally do that in these types of circumstances, but it is important to note that. they confirmed that they have a man in custody, arrested on suspicion of murder, and as they said earlier in the same statement, they don't believe anyone else is involved in the incident. we are still showing you some recent pictures of the scene in the city centre of nottingham. i think it is quite significant that the main area in the centre of nottingham, a large city in england, is still shut down. it shows you how extensive the crime scene is. it shows you how active the crime scene is, because we have seen other images as well, of forensic teams and some of the other

locations. police said in their statement, it is safe to go into the city centre, but there are a number of streets that will remain closed. that includes ilkeston road, magdala road, milton street and maple street. this is so that officers can gather evidence in also to understand what happened. we mentioned ilkeston road. that is where the first incident happened, police say, at liam, where they found two people dead in the road. one witness who spoke to the bbc, not on camera, but shared an update with our live page, said that he saw a man and a woman, young man and a woman, being killed. he said he heard bloodcurdling screams. we have been able to confirm any more on that. we did get an update around 1pm today, where another police raid

took place on a property on ilkeston road. my colleague was there and he filmed this footage which we can see there. you can see police, a number of armed police, outside a property. they have knocked down the door, and according is still in place on ilkeston road. you have nine hours after that incident took place in the morning, there is still a lot of police activity on ilkeston road. this is clearly an extensive investigation across a number of sites in nottingham. three people have died, a man has been arrested on suspicion of murder. one man is in a critical condition in hospital. two others have had minor injuries and we still don't know any more about the suspect, and we still don't know the motive. this pictures that have just come in to us about 1pm, show another read, or a raid on

ilkeston road. that is the same street where police say they first found two people dead in the road at 4am. we have been getting reaction throughout the day from the politicians in the country, who have been reacting to the horrific events in nottingham. first let's tell you what prime minister rishi sunak had to say. he tweeted a statement. he said, i want to thank police and emergency services to their ongoing response to the shocking incident. the prime minister said he has been kept updated on developments, and that the police must be given the time to undertake their work. he said that his thoughts were with those injured and the family of loved ones who lost their lives. it is important to say that we also heard in the last couple of hours from the prime minister's official spokesman, who said that the prime minister had been told about this incident earlier in the morning. he is being kept updated on what is

going on. we also heard from the home secretary, suella braverman, who posted her comments on social media. she said she was shocked and saddened that three people lost their lives today in nottingham. she said her thoughts were with those affected by the incident, and she said she had spoken to nottinghamshire police chief constable, and that she was getting regular updates. she extended her thanks to the emergency services for their response. we have also heard from the labour leader, xi keir starmer, he was asked about this incident. he was speaking at an event at london tech week. people will be seeing _ event at london tech week. people will be seeing the _ event at london tech week. people will be seeing the news _ event at london tech week. people will be seeing the news filtering . will be seeing the news filtering through, and i don't think we can start the session without acknowledging that there has been a serious incident in nottingham this morning. information is still coming through but it has just been reported that three people have lost their lives. i'm sure i speakfor everybody in this room in saying that we would like to send our

thoughts to all those affected, and to the emergency services, who are responding to this as we speak. we will get to tech in just a moment, but ijust think will get to tech in just a moment, but i just think that when there is something that serious happening in nottingham, we need to acknowledge it. we send our thoughts to those affected and thank those who are responding to it, on behalf of all of us. ., , ., responding to it, on behalf of all of us. . , ., ., of us. that is the leader of the labour party. _ of us. that is the leader of the labour party, keir— of us. that is the leader of the labour party, keir starmer. i of us. that is the leader of the | labour party, keir starmer. we of us. that is the leader of the - labour party, keir starmer. we are still getting pictures coming to us from the scene in nottingham, which show the extent of the police investigation that continues there. we have heard from the police, they have asked people who have any information on today's incident to come forward, or, they also say, come forward, or, they also say, come forward, or, they also say, come forward if you are concerned about a family member or friend. the police have set up a special dedicated emergency phone line... we can bring you some pictures now that

we are seeing from the scene there. the pictures show the centre of nottingham city centre. you can see live from the scene in the centre of nottingham that the forensic investigations continue. you can see the forensic officers slowly pacing along the main road. it is important to remind viewers that we are talking about the centre of a very big city in england. normally it would be really busy, there would be lots of traffic, lots of buses. there is also a major tram network that runs through the centre of nottingham. you can see the tram tracks there. they have been suspended. buses are not running, there is no traffic there. you can see the shops in the background. not too far from their is the victoria

shopping centre. the market square is a very busy place, but hours after this incident took place, it is still a massive crime scene. it is still a massive crime scene. it is significant to showing at these pictures, because it shows you that this investigation is going to be very extensive. in the last half an hour we did get an update from the police. while we continue to look at these pictures, i am going to remind you of some of the latest that we have heard from the police. police say that they are keeping an open mind over the motive of the attack. crucially, they believe that no one else is responsible for the attack. there is no one else outstanding. they have, of course, arrested a 31—year—old man who was arrested on suspicion of murder. we know that one man is in hospital in a critical

condition. two others suffered minor injuries. these are part of the three who, police said, a van had tried to run over this morning. we did get an update on the condition of these three people. we also know that three people have died. two of those were found dead just after 4am on ilkeston road. another man was found dead in magdala road. these three incidents, police say, were linked, and ourteam three incidents, police say, were linked, and our team at bbc verified were looking at those incidents on a map. they are not walking distance from each other. courtney bainbridge was saying, when she showed us the map, it is about ten minutes' drive between each of the places, so that is significant. it shows the extent of the area that the police are contending with when it comes to that investigation. it is worth reminding you as well that police say that they are keeping an open

mind, but they are working alongside counterterror police to establish the facts. they say they would normally do that in these circumstances. we do have a man in custody and they do say that it is safe to go into the city centre, but as we have been seeing, there are a number of streets that remain closed including ilkeston road, magdala road, milton street and maple street. earlier i spoke to our correspondent at the scene, joe black, who gave me an update. you can probably — black, who gave me an update. 7m, can probably see people behind me, starting to walk around the city centre. we are in the middle of the city centre, outside the theatre royal, just a stone's throw from bars and cafe is on the main shopping centre. the victoria shopping centre. the victoria shopping centre. the victoria shopping centre is a few streets away. this would be really busy around this time of day, just after lunchtime. there would be lots of

shoppers, lots of people going out police were called after a van attemptet lots of people going out for lunch. it is getting busier than shoppers, lots of people going out for lunch. it is getting busier than what it was this morning, it is what it was this morning, it is still not as busy as it would be. still not as busy as it would be. there is a tram here which is stuck, there is a tram here which is stuck, as you can see. that is because tram as you can see. that is because tram and bus services have been and bus services have been significantly disrupted by what has significantly disrupted by what has happened here nottingham today. just happened here nottingham today. just behind me, you might be able to see, behind me, you might be able to see, the police tape. this is taped all the police tape. this is taped all around the section of road here. around the section of road here. this is quite a huge chord on. it this is quite a huge chord on. it has been here all day, and a few has been here all day, and a few attempted streets streets away, we have seen forensics officers down that street, putting up officers down that street, putting up what looks like tripods and honestly going down that area, looking for forensic evidence. as you have been hearing police were called out 4am to ilkeston road, which is around 20 minutes' walk from where i'm standing talking to you now. two people were found dead. a short time later, around 5:30am, police were called after a van