
London police published the names of two of the three terrorists killed in the British capital on Saturday evening. According to the website of the department, this is 27-year-old Khuram Shazad Butt and 30-year-old Rashid Revvan. Both of them lived in the Barking area in the east of London.
Khuram Shazad Butt was born in Pakistan and had British citizenship. Rashid Revvan called himself a subject of Morocco and a citizen of Libya. He also had documents addressed to 25-year-old Rashid Elchdar.
As noted, the first of the terrorists had previously attracted the attention of both the police and the Mi5 - the country's counterintelligence - however, the departments did not have data on the preparation of their attacks. The second Islamist did not fall into the field of view of law enforcement officers and counterintelligence.
On Saturday, about 22 hours on the London bridge , the van began to crush passers -by . Having reached the Boil market, three terrorists with knives jumped out of the car and arranged a massacre. A few minutes later, the police shot criminals. On the terrorists there were dummies of shahid belts, which did not have explosives inside.
This was the third terrorist attack in the UK for the last two and a half months. Seven people, including visitors from France and Canada, became victims of attacks. 36 wounded remain in hospitals, of which 21 are in critical condition. Among the wounded four police officers. Two Australians received stab wounds, seven Frenchmen were also injured, another citizen of France is listed as missing.
In the case of an attack in the house of one of the terrorists in Barking , 12 people were detained . It was reported that one of the detainees has already been released.
On June 4, the Islamic State took responsibility for the terrorist attack. It is not possible to check the truthfulness of the message.
Earlier on Monday, it was reported that the individuals of all three terrorists were identified . One of the Islamists had an identity card issued in Ireland. As the media wrote, this terrorist was born in Morocco, used to live in Dublin and was married to a woman from Scotland. I did not fall into the view of Irish security services.
Another terrorist was written that he was 27 years old, he had a nickname Abz, and in 2016 he was shot in a documentary about British radical Muslims. In this film, he waved the flag of the IG in the London Rigent Park. On another video, the dead was captured next to two Islamic preachers, well -known British intelligence services to their extremist views. One of the friends of the terrorist reported that the deceased tried to involve small children in the park in radical Islam, treating them with sweets and giving money. Friends at least twice complained about him to the police.