A number of people are believed to have been injured after a stabbing at London Bridge, according to the police. Members of the public had joined forces together to wrestle down the man who had a kitchen knife of about 6inches before police arrived.
The Met said one man had been shot by police and it was treating the incident “as though it is terror related”.
The British prime minister tweeted he was being updated on the incident and wanted to thank police and all emergency services for their response.
The terrorist suspect attacker had been in jail for previous terror offenses. He has been identified as 28-year-old Usman Khan, Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said in a statement.
Khan had been residing in the Staffordshire area in England. Police are carrying out a search at an address in the county of Staffordshire.
Khan was known to authorities having been convicted in 2012 for terrorism offenses and released from prison in December 2018 on license, according to the statement.
When prisoners are released on a license, they are given an electronic tag and they must abide by certain conditions like a home detention curfew, according to a Crown Prosecution Service barrister. If they violate the conditions, they are returned to prison without an appeal.
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