Investigation continues as last London attacker named
Police search homes of relatives of one of the three suspects
Police named the third attacker in the terrorist rampage that killed seven people here over the weekend as Youssef Zaghba, 22, from the eastern part of the British capital.
Zaghba, who is believed to be an Italian national of Moroccan descent, was shot dead along with accomplices Khuram Butt and Rachid Redouane following the incident on London Bridge and at nearby Borough Market on Saturday night. Butt and Redouane were named by authorities Monday.
The Metropolitan Police said Zaghba was not a subject of interest to police or MI5, the domestic security agency.
Police searched the homes of relatives of Butt — a Pakistaniborn British citizen— and a restaurant run by his family members in Jhelum, a city 60 miles southeast of the Pakistani capital Islamabad, onMonday night,
The Telegraph and The Sun reported. Authorities suspect Butt was radicalized in the U. K. and not in Pakistan, the newspapers said.
Butt, 27, worked for London Underground as a trainee customer services assistant for just under six months, leaving in October last year. The Telegraph reported that he worked at Westminster tube station, just a stone’s throw from Parliament and had access to tunnels that run under that building. The area near Parliament was itself the victim of a terror attack in March that killed five people.
Butt and Redouane were both from Barking in east London. Redouane, 30, who claimed to beMoroccan and Libyan, also used the name Rachid Elkhdar, with a different date of birth.
All three attackers were shot dead by police after ramming a van into pedestrians on the bridge and stabbing people in the market. The Islamic State claimed responsibility.
A 27- year- old man was arrested in Barking on Tuesday in connection with the investigation.
A minute’s silence was held across the country in memory of the victims at 11 a. m. local time Tuesday. Thousands of people attended a vigil for the victims in London onMonday evening.
Authorities said Butt was known to security services but Redouane was not. Twelve people who were arrested in Barking on Sunday in connection with the attack have been released without charge.
Italian news agency ANSA reported Tuesday that Zaghba was held at Bologna airport in March 2016 as he was about to catch a flight to Istanbul. It said he raised suspicion because he had just a small backpack, a passport and a one- way ticket. Many foreign fighters travel from Turkey to neighboring Syria to join militants such as the Islamic State.
Police searched his home but no “particular elements” were found other than religious documents that were downloaded from extremist sites, ANSA reported. Zaghba was released.
Police named Kirsty Boden, 28, an Australian nurse who lived in London, as one of the victims on Tuesday. Christine Archibald, 30, a Canadian social worker whomoved to Europe to be with her fiancé, was the first victim to be named. French authorities said a French national was also killed.
MelissaMcMullan told reportersMonday she believed her brother James McMullan, 32, from Hackney in east London, was also killed in the attack after police told the family that his bank card was found on one of the bodies.
Forty- eight people were injured, 21 of them critically. NBC News reported that an American man who was shot in the head by a stray police bullet was expected to survive. The U. S. Embassy in London said it was aware of reports that U. S. citizens were injured, and was not aware that any had been killed.
The London attack followed a bombing that killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, northern England, on May 22. Ten men remain in police custody in connection with that attack.