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London Bridge attack: suspect wearing fake explosive vest shot dead after fatal stabbing
- Suspect identified by British police to be Usman Khan, 28, who was released from jail last December after being convicted for terrorism offences in 2012
- Two people were killed in the stabbing, which also wounded three others
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A suspect in Britain who stabbed two people to death in an attack and wounded three others on London Bridge was a former prisoner convicted in 2012 for terrorism offences, police said on Saturday.
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Police identified the man, who was shot dead by officers, as 28-year-old Usman Khan, saying they were not actively seeking any other suspects in relation to the incident.
“This individual was known to authorities, having been convicted in 2012 for terrorism offences. He was released from prison in December 2018 on licence and clearly, a key line of enquiry now is to establish how he came to carry out this attack,” Metropolitan Police counterterrorism chief Neil Basu said in a statement.
Khan had been living in the Staffordshire region of central England and officers were searching an address in that area, Basu said.
The suspect was attending a London event hosted by Learning Together – a Cambridge University-backed programme that works to educate prisoners – when he launched the attack, which unfolded just yards from the site of a deadly 2017 van and knife rampage.
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“We believe that the attack began inside before he left the building and proceeded onto London Bridge, where he was detained and subsequently confronted and shot by armed officers,” Basu said.
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