British police identify 2 attackers

Associated Press

LONDON

British police named two of the three men who left a trail of bloodshed with a van and knife in central London and appealed for the public’s help Monday to learn more about their movements in the days leading up to the deadly rampage that killed seven people and left dozens wounded.

Khuram Shazad Butt was a 27-year-old Pakistan-born Briton known to authorities, according to a statement issued by London police. Rachid Redouane – who had claimed to be Moroccan and Libyan, variously gave his age as 30 or 25 and also used Elkhdar as a surname – was not on the radar of police or intelligence agencies until the attack.

Both were shot dead, along with a third attacker who has not been identified, by officers called to the chaotic scene Saturday night.

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the brazen attack that started on London Bridge, then continued in the streets surrounding Borough Market.

Most of the London Underground stations reopened in the neighborhood where the attack took place, allowing normal life and commerce to resume after more than 24 hours of lockdown. Some residents cooped up inside all day Sunday emerged from their homes for the first time since the attacks.

Dozens were injured, 18 of them critically, in the attack that started on the London Bridge, when three attackers swerved the vehicle into pedestrians, then, armed with knives, rampaged through Borough Market, slashing and stabbing anyone they could find. The three men wore fake suicide vests to make them even more imposing.