Daily Mail reports

I saw three jihadis shot dead – bang, bang, bang: Dramatic pictures taken by eyewitness who was just yards away show moment eight police cut down terrorists in a hail of 50 bullets

• Officers fired 50 bullets in a matter of seconds when they swooped on the men in a deserted Borough Market
• Italian filmmaker Gabriele Sciotto, aged 25, stood just yards away as the terrorists collapsed with fatal injuries
• Mr Sciotto said police shouted at the men to ‘get down’ as they tried to separate them from fleeing bystanders
• Describing a police officer near to him, he added: ‘He was scared to death. All of the policemen were scared’

This is the dramatic moment the deadly London Bridge suicide squad was cut down in a hail of police gunfire.

Eight officers fired 50 bullets in a matter of seconds when they swooped on the men in an eerily deserted Borough Market.

Gabriele Sciotto, 25, stood just yards away as the terrorists collapsed with fatal injuries.

As the shots rang out he captured these startling images, obtained exclusively by the Daily Mail, on his iPhone.

Alerted by the sound of screaming, the Italian documentary maker walked out of a pub where he had been watching the Champions League final.

But he realised he had taken a wrong turn when he saw the killer trio walking towards him wearing what appeared to be gas canisters around their waists.

In a terrifying melee, Mr Sciotto said police shouted at the men to ‘get down’ as they tried to separate them from fleeing bystanders.

‘By the time I realised I was going the wrong way home, it happened,’ Mr Sciotto said.

‘I went out of the pub and went into one of the secondary streets. There were guys running towards me, they kept coming, shouting ‘run away!’

‘Then I saw three men wearing suicide belts with explosives on. I immediately thought they were fake. They did not look right.

‘The police officers were trying to get them away from the crowd. Everyone was scared and running everywhere. It is the most confusing thing I have ever seen.

‘Then they shot them. I saw three men being shot.’

Mr Sciotto photographs show armed officers from Scotland Yard’s SCO19 unit pointing a range of weaponry at the suspects.

He said he cannot remember in what sequence the men were shot, but as he continued to hold up his camera the police checked to see if they were alive.

Several officers crouched behind a marked BMW X5, the vehicle of choice for the capital’s three-man armed response units.

Mr Sciotto said: ‘They were all shot dead in a matter of seconds, bang, bang, bang. They were very efficient. It was like they were already ready, like they were on the radio.

‘I can’t remember anything more about what they were wearing. I saw these kind of bombs. That was the only thing that caught my attention.

‘They looked like gas canisters. I thought they were fake. But then who am I to understand? It was a risky game.’

Mr Sciotto them captured the moment two unarmed officers wearing stab proof vests are left to check whether the men are still alive.

One of his photographs showed the face of a dying terrorist, wearing an Arsenal football shirt and combat trousers, just a few metres in front of him.