Timeline of terror: Assaults in Britain

YESTERDAY’S attack on worshippers near a mosque in north London is being treated as terrorism. Here is a timeline of recent attacks:

Eight people are killed in a terror attack on and around London Bridge. A van ploughed into people on the bridge before the three attackers carried out a knife rampage in Borough Market.

The perpetrators – Khuram Butt, 27, Rachid Redouane, 30, and Youssef Zaghba, 22, were shot dead by police.

Twenty-two people – including children – are killed in a bombing at a concert in Manchester. Lone suicide attacker Salman Abedi detonated an explosive device as music fans, many of them youngsters, left Manchester Arena following a performance by US singer Ariana Grande.

Five people are killed in a car and knife attack in Westminster. Khalid Masood drove a hire car over Westminster Bridge, near the Houses of Parliament, mounted the pavement and hit pedestrians before crashing into railings outside the Palace of Westminster. He stabbed PC Keith Palmer, 48, to death.

Also killed in the atrocity were US tourist Kurt Cochran, Romanian tourist Andreea Cristea, 31, and Britons Aysha Frade, 44, and 75-year-old Leslie Rhodes. Masood was shot dead by police.

Labour MP Jo Cox is murdered outside her constituency office in Batley, West Yorkshire.

The mother of two, 41, was shot and stabbed multiple times by right-wing extremist Thomas Mair.

He was later handed a whole-life prison sentence for her murder.

Fusilier Lee Rigby is murdered by Islamist extremists Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale.

The 25-year-old serviceman was walking near his barracks in Woolwich, south-east London, when the pair rammed him with a car before attempting to hack off his head with knives

The killers were jailed at the Old Bailey in February 2014.

Four suicide bombers kill 52 and injure hundreds of others in blasts on the London Underground network and a bus.

Twenty-six died in the bombing at Russell Square on the Piccadilly line, six in the bombing at Edgware Road on the Circle line, seven in the bombing at Aldgate on the Circle line, and 13 in the bombing on a bus at Tavistock Square.