Cop took ’em on with baton

pedestrians at busy London Bridge, then attacked people at nearby Borough Market before being shot dead by police.

“They went, ‘This is for Allah,’ and they had a woman on the floor. They were stabbing her,” witness Gerard Vowls said.

Florin Morariu, a Romanian chef who works in the Bread Ahead bakery, said he saw people running and some fainting.

Then two people approached another person and “began to stick the knife in . . . and then I froze and I didn’t know what to do,” he said.

Morariu hit one attacker in the head with a breadbasket.

“There was a car with a loudspeaker saying, ‘Go, go,’ and they (police) threw a grenade . . . and then I ran,” he said.

Richard Angell was eating at a local restaurant when the terrorists struck. Overlaying the terror with civility, Angell went back Sunday to pay his bill.

“I’ve got to pay my bill. Also, we haven’t given the staff a tip, and they looked out for us when they should have been helping themselves,” he said.

The three terrorists wore suicide belts that were later revealed to be fake.

Officers killed the attackers within eight minutes of arriving at the scene, police said.

Police gunfire accidentally left a bystander with noncritical injuries, Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said, describing an “unprecedented” 50 rounds fired by eight officers.

“There is clearly more to do, and we will work relentlessly to get to the facts,” he said. A HERO COP whose only weapon was a baton was among nearly 50 people injured in a terror attack that killed seven people, including a Canadian woman and a French national, officials said Sunday.

The cop, a British Transport Police officer with less than two years on the force, suffered serious injuries to his head, face and leg during the Saturday night attack, police confirmed in a statement Sunday. His injuries were not considered life-threatening.

“Although he is seriously unwell, he was able to recount how he faced the attackers armed only with his baton, outside London Bridge station,” Chief Constable Paul Crowther said.

An off-duty Metropolitan Police Service officer was also among those injured in the bloody truck-and-knife assault by London Bridge and a nearby market, according to The Guardian.

Meanwhile, Sunday Express business editor Geoff Ho was stabbed in the throat after coming to a tavern bouncer’s aid in the melee, The Mirror reported. Ho later turned up at a hospital’s ICU, where he was unable to speak.

“Don’t know whether it was stupid or noble to jump in and break up the fight outside the Southwark Tavern, but two a--eholes trying to do over the lone bouncer on the door isn’t happening on my watch,” he wrote on Facebook.

The slain Canadian was identified as Chrissy Archibald (photo) of Castlegar, British Columbia, who had worked at a homeless shelter before joining her fiancé in Europe.

“We grieve the loss of our beautiful, loving daughter and sister,” her family said in a statement to Canada’s CTV.

“She had room in her heart for everyone and believed strongly that every person was to be valued and respected. She would have had no understanding of the callous cruelty that caused her death.”

A French person was also among the dead, the French foreign minister said.

Australian Candice Hedge, 34, was reportedly unable to talk after being stabbed in the neck. She was working at a Borough Market restaurant and bar when the attack unfolded, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.

Oliver Dowling, 32, of New Zealand, was recovering from stab wounds on his face, neck and stomach, his sister said on Facebook. His girlfriend, Marie Bondeville, was also injured.