LONDON UPDATE: The deadly assault in the heart of the British capital has triggered a political storm over why the knife-wielding terrorist was set free just a year earlier
Khan stabbed delegates inside the building before running to London Bridge, where he was tackled by half a dozen members of the public. He was shot dead by heavily armed tactical officers within five minutes of the first call for help, and later found to be wearing a hoax suicide vest.Usman Khan was identified by police as the man who stabbed people at a conference and was later shot dead by polcie on London Bridge.
Professor Stephen Toope, the vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge, said he was "devastated" that an event organised by its Institute of Criminology was targeted in the "hateful" attack. Police forensic officers work where the attacker was killed on London Bridge following Friday's incident."The empty ideology of terror offers nothing but hatred and today I urge everyone to reject that," she said.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison paid tribute to the victims and their families on Saturday, and said the government was not aware of any Australians caught up in the London incident or another believed unrelatedPolice evacuate the nearby Borough Market, which was the scene of a terrorist attack in 2017.The judge who sentenced Khan at the time warned he was a "serious jihadist" who should not be released while he and his co-conspirators remained a threat to the public.
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