A man is fighting for his life after a horrific stabbing took place along Westminster Bridge, according to the Metropolitan Police. Police were called to attend the scene at around 10:45am this morning after a fight was said to have erupted in central London.

A man initially thought to have been stabbed on Westminster Bridge following a fight actually suffered a cardiac arrest, police said. The Metropolitan Police were called to the bridge at around 10.45am on Sunday after a fight reportedly broke out on the central London Bridge.

Paramedics from the London Ambulance Service attended with the London Air Ambulance where they found a man in cardiac arrest.  An initial statement from officials advised that the nature of the incident was a stabbing,

Scores of police officers rushed to Westminster Bridge in central London after a man was stabbed as tourists looked on. The bridge was closed on both sides following the horrifying incident just meters away from Big Ben.

A man is fighting for his life in hospital after a stabbing on Westminster Bridge, the Metropolitan Police said. Officers were called at about 10.45am on Sunday after a fight reportedly broke out on the bridge in central London.

Police closed Westminster Bridge on Sunday after a man was left in a critical condition following a fight on Sunday. Metropolitan Police officers were called to the bridge at 10.43am, and initially said they had found a man with a stab injury who was taken to hospital in a critical condition.