UK Authorities Identify Suspects in London Attack16:30

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On Saturday night he and fellow jihadists, Khuram Butt, 27, and Rachid Redouane, 30, went on the rampage at London Bridge killing seven and injuring nearly 50 others in eight minutes of mayhem.

The other two attackers were named Monday as Khuram Shazad Butt and Rachid Redouane.

Thousands gathered on the banks of the River Thames to pay their respects, a few hundred yards away from where three militants rammed into pedestrians on London Bridge before stabbing revellers on Saturday night, killing seven. At least seven people were killed.

Italian authorities said Zaghba was stopped at the Bologna airport in 2016 and questioned in Italy, but never charged with a crime.

Over the past two years, Italy has expelled 181 people who were suspected of extremist activities but for whom there was insufficient evidence to bring formal charges. Zaghba's Italian citizenship prevented such an expulsion, Italian daily Repubblica reported.

Collina said she had spoken to Italy's anti-terrorism police past year after her son was prevented from travelling to the Middle East, and that they were the ones to told her on Tuesday that her son had been one of the men who carried out the attack.

Police on Monday also named 30-year-old Rachid Redouane as one of Butt's accomplices but did not give any details about the third attacker.

Twelve people were arrested in the aftermath of the London Bridge attack.

Metropolitan Police released a statement confirmed they believed this 22-year-old is the third attacker.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan criticized the cuts to the police under the Conservative-led government and argued that London could lose front line police officers if May's Conservative Party triumphs in the election.

"Detectives investigating the London Bridge terror attack have carried out a search warrant at an address in east London in the early hours of Wednesday", police said in as statement. Authorities said he aroused suspicion because he tried to board a flight to Turkey with a one-way ticket and a small backpack. In a letter posted outside Tuesday, the Ummah Fitness Centre said staff would "help the police in any way we can".

Neighbors described Butt as an avid weightlifter.

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Following talks between May and the DUP on Saturday night, a second statement confirmed that no final deal had been reached. But the Sunday Times said Johnson had been pressed by five Cabinet colleagues to oust May. "We need a Brexiteer".

Relatives of Australian Sara Zelenak have confirmed she was killed in the London attacks over the weekend.

When asked if the United Kingdom should rescind the offer of a state visit to President Donald Trump following Trump's recent criticisms of Khan, the London mayor told BBC that he had not changed his view that a state visit was inappropriate.

Prime Minister Theresa May, who called the snap election in hopes of strengthening her mandate for discussions over Britain's exit from the European Union, has come under fire for the cuts to police numbers over recent years.

Of the 48 people taken to hospital with injuries from the attack, 36 are still receiving treatment, with 18 of those in a critical condition.

Seven of the arrested were women, aged between 19 to 60, and five were men, aged between 28 and 55 years old.

Corbyn renewed his criticism of May for cutting some 20,000 police officers during her time as home secretary from 2010 to 2016.

He sought to end that earlier controversy on Sunday by stating that he backed the "full authority for the police to use whatever force is necessary to protect and save life as they did (at Borough Market), as they did in Westminster in March".

At 11 a.m., the nation held a minute's silence to remember all of those affected by the terror attack.

The country's official terror threat level remains at "severe", one notch down from the highest.

Saturday's rampage took place less than two weeks after a suicide bomber killed 22 children and adults at a concert in Manchester.

It was lowered once intelligence agencies were comfortable this wasn't the case.

When contacted by Bernama today, the marketing specialist for a software company said after the attack, she and her friend would make sure that they were constantly aware of the nearest exit (in public places) and avoid going to crowded tourist spots.

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