The trio behind the London Bridge attack filled their van with petroleum bombs, used mysterious ceramic pink knives and originally planned to rent a 7.5-tonne truck, suggesting that they intended more carnage before officers shot them dead, police said.
Officers from the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command arrested a 28-year-old man at a residential address in East London at 2:05 a.m., police said.
The ringleader of the London Bridge terror gang tried to hire a 7.5 tonne lorry hours before the attack, police have revealed.
Another said: "They (the attackers) can't harm what London is. If you know anything about these particular types of knives, please let us know - it could prove a crucial lead in our investigation", Haydon added.
Dean Haydon, the Metropolitan police commander who is leading the counter-terrorism investigation, said the fake suicide belts made the courage of police and members of the public who confronted the terrorists even more remarkable.
"I have not seen this tactic in the United Kingdom before where terrorists create maximum fear by strapping fake explosives to themselves", says police commander Dean Haydon, who is leading the investigation. Police were also reviewing security at "iconic sites", crowded places and major events, and refreshing advice to theatres, bars, shopping centers and sports venues.
Seven other people also died in the attack on June 3.
He rented a different van later that evening.
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"One possibility is Butt had considered targeting the tennis tournament but made a decision to speed up the plot, following the Manchester Arena bombing, and switched the attack to London Bridge", the paper said.
Although Islamic State militants have claimed responsibility for the attack, Haydon said there was no evidence the attackers - Pakistani-born Briton Khuram Butt, Italian Youssef Zaghba and Rachid Redouane who had links to Libya, Morocco and Ireland - were directed by anyone else, either in Britain or overseas.
The three men drove up and down the London Bridge twice before ultimately carrying out the attack, police said.
Three Islamist militants rammed a hired van into pedestrians on London Bridge last Saturday before going on the rampage through the bustling Borough Market area where they slit throats and stabbed people.
'I told them that we had armed officers outside, everyone was safe and there was a nice big round of applause and cheering - that was really good'.
Butt rented a white Renault van in the evening instead, using a recently activated mobile phone.
Then, along with two accomplices, Youssef Zaghba and Rachid Radouane, he indiscriminately stabbed the crowd at the Borough market before being shot dead by police agents. The Ernesto brand knives are 12 inches long, and were found with tape wrapped around the handles and leather straps attached to them to keep the weapons on the attackers' wrists. Meanwhile, London police have rejected ISIS' claim of responsibility.
Police say they have interviewed 262 witnesses, from 19 countries. It was the third such deadly attack in Britain in three months. In total, eight people were killed and 48 others were injured in the attack.
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