London attack as it happened: Met Police make arrests during early morning raids in search for jihadi network
'Gunshots' heard as 'a number' of people arrested
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Your support makes all the difference.Police have named two of the three terrorists responsible for Saturday's deadly attack on London Bridge.
Khuram Shazad Butt, 27, and Rachid Redouane, 30, both from Barking, East London, were identified as the perpetrators of the knife and van attack, which killed seven people and left 49 injured.
Butt was previously known to security services but the Met Police said there was no intelligence to suggest the attack was being planned. Redouane was not known to authorities, Scotland Yard said.
Police detained a number of people in early morning raids in east London as part of the investigation into the London Bridge attack which saw the attackers ram a van into pedestrians on London Bridge before stabbing revellers in bars in the nearby Borough Market.
Isis claimed responsibility for the attack, the third major militant assault to hit Britain in less than three months.
Two of the seven people who were killed have been named, and 21 people remain critically injured in hospital.
A Canadian woman, who died in her fiance's arms after being struck by the speeding van, was named as 30-year-old Christine Archibald.
A 32-year-old man from Hackney, James McMullan, has also been identified as one of the victim's by his family.
Isis was said to have urged extremists to run over civilians in a poster released over the weekend featuring a knife, handgun and lorry urging radicals to "gain benefit from Ramadan".
The three men, wearing fake suicide bomb vests, were shot dead by eight officers outside a pub after police opened fire with an "unprecedented" hail of 50 bullets, while a bystander was also shot.
Scotland Yard said seven women and five men aged between 19 and 60 were arrested under the Terrorism Act in Barking on Sunday. A 55-year-old man was later released without charge.
A vigil was held on Monday evening near London Bridge in honour of the victims of the attack, which took place at around 10pm, while a minute's silence will take place at 11am on Tuesday.
Sadiq Khan told mourners: "As Mayor of London I want to send a clear message to the sick and evil terrorists who commit these crimes: we will defeat you you will not win.
"As a proud and patriotic British Muslim, I now say this: you do not commit these disgusting acts in my name."
Network Rail said London Bridge rail and London Underground stations reopened at 5am but the rail station will be exit only.
People from around the world were caught up as hundreds cowered in pubs and restaurants, barricading themselves inside as the attackers stalked the streets.
Tales of heroism emerged in the aftermath, with one British Transport Police officer taking on the trio armed only with his baton before being stabbed in the head, face and leg.
An off-duty Metropolitan Police officer was also injured after he tackled the men.
Forty-eight people were left in hospital, 21 critically injured.
As counter-terrorism police units and security services launched a huge investigation for the third time in a matter of weeks, officers arrested a dozen people in raids on flats in Barking, east London, where residents said they believed one of the terrorists may have lived.
One neighbour said one of the attackers had recently asked him how he could hire a van.
Met Commissioner Cressida Dick, left, with Mayor of London Sadiq Khan (Sky News)
Asked if he agreed with the Prime Minister's assertion that "enough is enough", Mr Khan said: "Who could disagree with 'enough is enough'?
"The reality is all of us need to work together to solve this problem. It's a fact that in the last three months alone there have been five separate potential attacks thwarted as a consequence of excellent police, security services, but also the public coming forward.
"In the last four years, 13 attacks thwarted. London lived through 7/7 of course, so we as a city recognise that actually terrorists want to destroy our way of life, they want to harm us, they want to attack us. We've got to make sure we don't let them succeed.
"But the reality is all of us have to work together to keep our city safe.
"The police, with the right resources, the right tools, but all of us giving the information, making sure we stop youngsters being radicalised, being turned into extremists. Giving them the resilience they need to reject these messages of hate, of poison.
"Working with those who are internet service providers, those in the tech sector, to stop it being easy for preachers of hate to radicalise, brainwash and indoctrinate our young people."
Both Ms Dick and Mr Khan referenced police "resources" in their press conference at London Bridge.
It was a topic on which Prime Minister Theresa May faced sustained questioning by journalists at a speech earlier today (see below). Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and others have called for her resignation over cuts to police numbers.
Trade unions have been adding their own perspective to the debate:
Mr Khan, speaking after visiting the scene of Saturday's attack, appeared to suggest he does not regard Mr Trump's planned state visit as welcome.
While addressing police funding, Mr Khan noted London has other responsibilities due to its status as a capital city.
He said: "From major events, there's a big cricket match today, to state visits - some welcome, some less so.
"But the fact is we need to make sure the police have the resources and support they need, and as the mayor my job is to make our city safe and I'll do my best as the mayor to be an advocate and champion for our police to get the tools they need."
Increased security has been installed on Waterloo, Lambeth and Westminster bridges, in the form of large concrete barriers.
NHS England has said 36 people remain in hospital, with 18 of those in critical condition.
That's down from 21 victims in critical condition yesterday.
Neighbours of one of the dead suspects in the London Bridge attacks say he was trying to radicalize young people, and that they reported him to police.
Jibril Palomba said he and his wife worried because the man, whom they knew as Abu Mohammed and recognized in photos of the attack, gave their children candy and preached about Islam. Erica Gasparri said she also saw him and two other men proselytizing outside a school.
Another neighbor, Michael Mimbo, said the van later used to ram pedestrians on the bridge was blocking the road at the suspect's housing complex on Friday. The next day, Mimbo says that same van sped erratically down the street.
Alisha, a neighbour of the family whose house was raided in Newham, said a man that lived in the house had told her father they were Pakistani from Greece.
"They kept to themselves," she said.
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