UK police name third man behind London terror attack

Just hours before Khuram Butt and two accomplices drove a rented van into pedestrians on London Bridge and stabbed people nearby, he was asking neighbors where he could hire a vehicle. Seven were killed and almost 50 wounded. The three, who were wearing fake suicide vests, were shot dead during the attack.

Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn, when asked by ITV television if he backed calls for Mrs May to resign, said: “Indeed I would”.

A spate of terror attacks on British soil has moved security into the spotlight ahead of key parliamentary elections slated for Thursday. The three attackers were shot dead by police right after the attack.

It is not yet known how the two men named knew each other. It was unclear if he was detained. In the film, he was seen with a group unfurling a black-and-white flag associated with the Islamic State group. The Islamic State has claimed credit for both attacks.

– Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of the Ramadhan Foundation, said Butt verbally assaulted him the day after Rigby’s death.

However, we have built up an extensive profile of Khuram Butt, his family life and career.

London’s bridges have been targeted in two terror attacks in recent weeks. He was a trainee customer services assistant with London Underground for less than six months, before leaving in October, according to a Transport for London spokesperson.

He returned to Ireland again in 2015, again for an unknown length of time. It is now running 500 active investigations.

Commissioner Mark Rowley said. “That’s where the question of resources comes into play”.

Butt, 27, who was born in Pakistan, lived in east London with his wife and children for years, Xinhua reported. The couple is thought to have split.

Joana Cook was out for dinner, about one kilometre away, when seven people were killed in Saturday’s London attack. One man is still being held.

Between 2009 and previous year, the number of police officers fell by nearly 20,000, or around 14 per cent, according to the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies think-tank.

Italian authorities had previously informed Britain of the third attacker’s plans to travel to Syria.

The second attacker was named as Rachid Redouane, aged 30, who also went by the identity Rachid Elkhdar and was not known to police.

Citing intelligence sources, Italian dailies Corriere della Sera and La Repubblica said Zaghba was met at the Bologna airport by Italian intelligence agents each time he arrived in Italy to visit his mother after his initial run-in with Bologna airport authorities on March 15, 2016.

Salaudeen Jailabdeen, who lived near Butt, said the alleged assailant had once been ejected from a local mosque for interrupting an imam. “He was someone who was suspicious because of his way of behaving”.

“I am deeply shocked, saddened and numbed by the actions of my ex-partner who has killed and injured so many innocent people”.

Zaghba was reportedly working in a London restaurant and had not been seen in Italy since 2016.

Police reportedly called his mother, who lives in Italy, and according to Politico’s source, had been anxious about her son because he had been talking about jihad.

Britain’s response to the terror threat must change, she said.

May’s Conservative Party’s lead over Labour has narrowed markedly from 20 points or more when she called the election in April to a range between one and 12 points now, although the Conservatives are still widely expected to win a majority.