当地时间六月三日晚，在曼彻斯特爆炸案发生天后，伦敦市内相继发生了两起恐袭事件。一起发生伦敦大桥（London Bridge），与在四月六日袭击案一样，同是驾车撞击行人； 另一起是撞人车辆从伦敦大桥开往了大都会市场（Borough Market），之后有三名歹徒在多家酒吧和餐饮持刀砍人。伦敦警方接到报警后赶来，在八分钟之内击毙了行凶者。

六月四日晚，“伊斯兰国”声称组织了这一次的袭击活动。在伊斯兰国的Amaq新闻社网站上，该组织发布一份通告，称前一天对伦敦的袭击行动是由其组织的外围人员发动的：

A detachment of Islamic State fighters executed yesterday’s London attack

伊斯兰国的一个外围战士昨天在伦敦发动了袭击行动。

这一次的伦敦恐袭事件造成了7个死亡，50多个受伤，其中有21人伤势危急。同时，这也是三个月以来，英国发生的第三起恐怖袭击事件。

英国首相 ："忍无可忍"

事发之后，英国首相特蕾莎·梅召开了英国紧急委员会（Cobra）会议，之后在首相府外发表讲话，谴责伊斯兰极端主义并称其思想“违背伊斯兰（教旨）,也违背了真理”。

“It is an ideology that is a perversion of Islam and a perversion of the truth,” she said. “Defeating this ideology is one of the great challenges of our time. But it cannot be defeated through military intervention alone.”

“这种思想违背了伊斯兰教旨，也违背了真理。”她说道，“打败这种思想是我们当前最大的挑战之一。不过，单纯依赖武力是无法打败它的。”

她表示，“我们面临着新的威胁”.恐怖主义在相互繁殖。

As terrorism breeds terrorism and perpetrators are inspired to attack, not only on the basis of carefully constructed plots after years of planning and training, and not even as lone attackers radicalised online, but by copying one another and often using the crudest of means of attack.

恐怖主义在滋养着恐怖主义，潜伏者在受鼓动发动攻击，不仅是经过多年的谋划和训练并有精心的策划，甚至不是在网络上孤军奋战在，还是相互搬照使用，不断地使用冷酷至极的攻击手段。

她还说道：“现在要忍无可忍了”（It is time to say enough is enough）。

之后，梅首相表示会在四个方面进行调整：

First, people who are drawn to Islamist extremism must be persuaded that western values are superior. 

一是，参与伊斯兰极端主义的人必须得到劝说，要让他们相信西方价值观是更为优越的； 

Second, there must be a clampdown on the “safe spaces” on the internet where terrorism breeds. 

二是必须清洗滋生恐怖主义的网络，还网络一片“净土”； 

Third, she called for action at home where extremism may be tolerated. “While we have made significant progress in recent years, there is – to be frank – far too much tolerance of extremism in our country,” she said. 

三是呼吁对国内纵容极端主义的地方采取行动计划。“虽然近年来取得了长足的进展，坦白地说，我们国家对于极端主义太过于宽容了，”她说道。

Finally, she proposed a review of counter-terrorism strategy and laws, and suggested longer sentences for some offences. 

最后，她提议对英国的反英策略以及法律进行审查，并建议加重对违法者的判处。

“现在一片混乱和恐怖”

一些目击者讲述当时的情况。一位名叫马克的目击者对BBC称，当时他正在伦敦大桥上拍照，突然看到一辆白色厢式货车冲着桥上的行人撞过去：

“It was swerving from side to side and I could see it hitting people and there was a group about 20 or 30 yards in front of me. The van hit those people. At that moment I was doing that calculation of trying to work out which direction should I run.”

车来回的摇晃，我看到它一直在撞人，距离我20到30码的样子。厢式货车撞倒了人。当时我正在盘算要往那个方向跑。

另一位正好的Spectator的记者，正坐在一辆Urberlg车里从伦敦大桥上向南走：

“Suddenly on the left-hand side, on the bridge, there was somebody down on the pavement with a small crowd around them, clearly concerned. I thought someone had collapsed. We drove a little further over the bridge. There was another person in the road itself. The penny dropped that something quite serious was happening.

突然在桥的左侧，有一个人倒在人行道上，边上还围着几个人，很是着急。我想有人摔倒了。我们往前开了一会儿，下了桥。又有一个倒在地方。我回过神来，意识到发生了严重的事件。

“The traffic came to a standstill. The Uber driver said something bad is happening here. We could hear sirens coming.

整个交通停滞下。Urber司机说这里出事了。我们听到了远处传来的警笛声。

“A driver of a black cab said there has been a terrorist attack. They saw there were numerous people in the road. A second cab driver said there has been a series of stabbings.”

一黑色出租车司机说有恐袭。他们看到有很多人在街上。另一个出租车司机说发生了几起行凶砍人的事。

这辆厢式货车开出伦敦大桥之后，在the Barrow Boy& Banker酒吧外停了下来。有三个人从车上跳了下来，冲到伦敦大桥以及Borough Market附近的夜店和酒吧里行凶伤人。

埃里克对BBC说：

Three men jumped out of the van and that’s when they started attacking people on the road. As they headed down the stairs, as they were running towards the people, they were shouting, ‘This is for Allah’.

有三个人从厢式货车上跳下来，开始对路上的人行凶。他们走到台阶，冲人人群，大叫着“真主保佑”!

另一位目击者本（Ben）则称凶手在行凶时很“冷静”（calmly）。当时，本正要走进Borough High Stree地铁，突然看到有人跑过来。

I saw a man in red with quite a large blade, I don’t know the measurement – I guess maybe 10 inches. He was stabbing a man … he stabbed him about three times fairly calmly.

我看到有一个身穿红色脱衣服的人拿着一把大刀，我不知道有多长——猜想有可能是10英吋。他正在捅一个男子……捅了三下，很是冷静。

It looked [like] the man had maybe been trying to intervene but there wasn’t much that he could do, he was being stabbed quite coldly and he slumped to the ground.

似乎被捅的人想要反抗，可是无能为力； 他伤势严重，瘫倒在地

The attacker and another man walked off quite “boldly”.

行凶者与另一男子汉“嚣张地”走开了。

A table was thrown, a bottle was thrown at the individual with the knife and then we heard three gunshots and we ran

有桌子和酒瓶朝着拿刀的男子扔去，后来我们听到了枪声，就跑开了。

“伦敦不哭”

在伦敦桥袭击事件发生之后，很多人在社交媒体上发帖，对遇难和受伤人员表达了慰问之情。有一些人用##prayersforLondon话题，并贴出 “伦敦桥永不落”（"London Bridge will never fall down"）和“我爱伦敦”（ "I love London"）的口号。

在这些帖子里，英国人的幽默感也得到了充分的体现，展现了一个有悠久历史国家的人民的深厚的“幽默和自嘲的历史底蕴”——尤其是对美国《纽约时报》曾发表一篇题为Terrorist attacks in the heart of London leave 6 dead in a nation still reeling的文章的反应。

漫画家Lesco Griffe贴出了一张著名的英国座右铭：Keep Calm and Carry On! 

小说作家托尼·帕克森则与很多人一样，贴出了伦敦地铁站里的“当日金句”。

对于《纽约时报》题为Terrorist attacks in the heart of London leave 6 dead in a nation still reeling的文章称两周之内成为恐袭的目标，让英国现在仍处在“晕头转向”的状态。Reeling一词激怒了不少英国人，让英国人那“傲娇”的心受到了“严重伤害”。

《哈里波特》小说作者JK·罗琳（JK Rowling）提醒人们不要“将悲伤与懦弱混为一谈”。同时，她还影射《纽约时报》与杀戮无辜民众的暴徒（the thugs）一样会认为英国人“晕头转向”。

有人 @A_V_M_L 则贴出一张二战期间伦敦遭突袭之后的场景以表对《纽约时报》的文章的态度：这才是reeling在英国英语中的意思。

于是乎，#ThingsThatLeaveBritainReeling话题在Twitter上风靡开来，人们纷纷贴出所谓让他们感到愤怒的“无聊”之物：

《卫报》记者Olivia Solon发推说道: "People who stand stand to the left on the Tube escalator." （人们在地铁电梯左侧）

Kate Devlin发推道: "A pause longer than four seconds on Radio 4."（在BBC Radio 4中间隔超过四秒钟）

Charles Rothwell在推特上说道：烤面包枫不够大，装不下整个面包片。这是什么梗？

Julia Macfarlan表示，对于英国人来说，reeling会是一种舞蹈。

具体说来，就是一种爱尔兰舞蹈。

面对恐怖袭击，有人仍然坚信伦敦是安全的，同时也以此来表明不恐惧恐袭的坚强决心。

居住在牛津郡的加拿大人Lisa Durbin称，还是会带着孩子去伦敦的。

"We are going into London today with the kids. I want to say "I am not afraid", but having to explain this to my kids? My stomach hurts."

今天准备带着孩子们去伦敦玩。我要说“我不怕”，要怎么向孩子们解释呢？胃痛。

从罗马来到伦敦定居的Caterina Giordo则发推，直言“伦敦不怕，我们都是伦敦人”

"London gives an opportunity to everyone. It doesn't matter where you come from. It will always be open. LONDON IS NOT AFRAID. We are London."

伦敦给每个人机遇。不管你从什么地方来，它一直敞开胸怀。伦敦不怕，我们都是伦敦人

注：本文综合《卫报》、BBC和《纽约时报》以及Twitter上的相关推文报道。