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London attack: Islamic State claims responsibility
- Seven people were killed, and 48 injured people were taken to hospital.
- Of these, 21 are in a critical condition.
- Only one of those killed has so far been named: a Canadian woman, Christine Archibald, from Castlegar, British Columbia.
- The French foreign minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, confirmed that a French man was among those killed, but he has not been named.
- Seven other French citizens were reported to have been injured, four of them critically.
- An off-duty Metropolitan police officer and a British Transport police officer who confronted the terrorists with a baton were injured.
- A British man was shot in the head by a stray police bullet but was not severely injured and is expected to make a full recovery.
- New Zealander Oliver Dowling was stabbed in the face, neck and stomach. His partner Marie Bondeville was also injured.
- Geoff Ho, a Sunday Express journalist, was in intensive care after being stabbed in the throat.
The Met have arrested 12 people after an operation in Barking in east London. One person, a 55-year-old man, has since been released. On Sunday morning, police raided a block of flats in the area where at least one of the suspects is thought to have lived. A forensic investigation is under way at that site. Another raid, at a flat in nearby East Ham, followed in the afternoon.
The Australian prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has suggested that four Australians could be among those injured or killed in the London attack. Two – Candice Hedge, from Brisbane, and Andrew Morrison, from Darwin – have already been identified among those wounded in the attack. Now Turnbull says there are two more “about whom we have very real concerns”.
Source: The Guardian