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ISIS has claimed responsibility for Saturday's terror attack in London. The Islamic State's news agency Amaq said in a statement Sunday that ISIS "soldiers" carried out the attack.


Seven people were killed in London on Saturday night in what police 

 a terror attack. Three men used a van and knives in the incident, which also injured 48 people.

The attack began at about 10 p.m. local time, when a van crossing London Bridge veered into pedestrians, crashing outside the Barrowboy & Banker Pub. Witnesses 

 that van hit "five or six people," then the attackers exited the vehicle and pursued others in a "rampage" in which hundreds 

. One witness said he saw a woman stabbed "10 or 15 times" by the men, who he said shouted "This is for Allah."
The men then ran down a set of stairs and 

 at a number of different pubs and restaurants in 

, a historic fruit and vegetable market. 

 that people threw chairs and pint glasses at the men, who wore what 

 were fake explosive vests.
Eight minutes after police were called to the market, the three suspects were shot dead by police. Officers 

 at the men, wounding a civilian non-critically in the process.


Police declared the incident a terrorist attack shortly after midnight.


This is the third terrorist attack on Britain in the last three months, following 

 in March that killed five people, and the 

bombing of an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester

 less than two weeks ago in which 22 were killed and dozens were injured.
The Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre 

 that because no more perpetrators are thought to be at large, it recommends keeping the country's threat level at "severe" rather than elevating it to "critical."
The U.K. is holding 

 on Thursday; Prime Minister Theresa May called for the snap election in April.


 in the east London neighborhood of Barking; police say searches of buildings in the neighborhood continue. The BBC 

 that police raided a flat thought to be owned by one of the attackers. A photographer for Reuters saw four women escorted into police vans.
A man named Furqan Navi lives on the block in Barking that was raided. He 

 that he had seen a photo of one of the men shot dead by police, and recognized him as his neighbor:


 she had the same experience, recognizing one of the suspects in a photo that was circulating after the attack:


 that police also conducted a search of a building in London's East Ham neighborhood on Sunday.



Seven people were killed in the attack; another 48 were injured. Reuters 

 that 21 of the victims are in critical condition.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau 

 that a Canadian citizen was among those killed.


 is a British Transport Police officer who was seriously wounded when he fought the attackers, armed with only a baton. Also hurt was a journalist named Geoff Ho, who reportedly was stabbed in the throat when he tried to assist a wounded bouncer.
An Australian waitress named Candice Hedge was having a drink at the bar after her shift at Eliot's Cafe when a man came up behind her and slashed her throat, 

. She told family members that she was recovering well.


Officials said the wounded include citizens of France, Germany, and Spain.

 Sunday outside 10 Downing Street, Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May asked for new laws against terror. 

 that "while the recent attacks are not connected by common networks ... They are bound together by the single evil ideology of Islamist extremism."


"Defeating this ideology is one of the great challenges of our time, but it cannot be defeated by military intervention alone," she said. "It will only be defeated when we turn people's minds away from this violence and make them understand that our values – pluralistic British values – are superior to anything offered by the preachers and supporters of hate."


She also pointed to the internet and "the big companies that provide internet-based services" as "the safe space" that allows extremism to breed, which 

notes is a reference to an initiative she championed at the G7 last month, in which she wants internet companies to remove extremist content.


May said eliminating real-world safe spaces for extremists would require not only "taking military action to destroy Isis in Iraq and Syria. But it also means taking action here at home." There is, she said, "far too much tolerance of extremism in our country. So we need to become far more robust in identifying it and stamping it out across the public sector and across society."

"That will require some difficult, and often embarrassing, conversations. But the whole of our country needs to come together to take on this extremism, and we need to live our lives not in a series of separated, segregated communities, but as one truly United Kingdom."

Finally, May suggested tougher sentences for "terrorist-related offences – even apparently less serious offences."

May said that "the security and intelligence agencies and police have disrupted five credible plots" since the Westminster attacks in March.


The Labour Party's shadow foreign secretary, Emily Thornberry, 

 that May's statements appeared to breach 

 that Labour, Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and the SNP had made after the attacks:


 his support of the U.K.: "Whatever the United States can do to help out in London and the U. K., we will be there - WE ARE WITH YOU. GOD BLESS!"
Trump's 

 was more political: "We need to be smart, vigilant and tough. We need the courts to give us back our rights. We need the Travel Ban as an extra level of safety!"
In a series of tweets Sunday, Trump criticized London Mayor Sadiq Khan, 

 "At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is "no reason to be alarmed!"
What Khan said 

in the interview that Trump seemed to reference

 was this: "Londoners will see an increased police presence today, and over the course of the next few days. No reason to be alarmed. One of the things the police and all of us need to do is make sure we're as safe as we possibly can be. I'm reassured that we are one of the safest global cities in the world, if not 

safest global city in the world. But we always evolve and review ways to make sure we remain as safe as we possibly can."
Then Trump turned his attention to the weapons used by the attackers. "Do you notice we are not having a gun debate right now? That's because they used knives and a truck!" he 

; its laws were tightened after a mass shooting of schoolchildren in 1996. Since then, the country has had just one mass shooting: a 2010 incident in which 12 people were killed.
Saturday's attack in London was significantly less deadly than the 

2015 attacks by gunmen and suicide bombers in Paris

, in which 130 people were killed.
The London Metropolitan Police 

 from Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley about the ongoing investigation and thanking the media for its support.


"I would like to assure them and the public that this is directly assisting the progression of the investigation and confirm we will release the identities of the three men directly responsible for the attacks yesterday, Saturday, 3 June, as soon as operationally possible," Rowley said.

One image from the attack has already emerged as iconic. A crowd of people runs along a sidewalk – and among them, one man walks calmly, holding a pint of beer.


The man was quickly hailed as a folk hero. "This Brit showed what the phrase 'keep calm and carry on' is all about," 

 one person.
"Correct London response to terror attack: leg it, but take your pint with you," 


English actor and comedian Chris Addison took umbrage at

 that the U.K. was "still reeling" from the Manchester attacks.
Addison encouraged Brits to tweet at the 

The attack began when a van crossing London Bridge veered into pedestrians. Three men exited the vehicle and began a stabbing rampage in which hundreds fled for their lives.

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