London attack as it happened: Met Police make arrests during early morning raids in search for jihadi network
'Gunshots' heard as 'a number' of people arrested
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Police have named two of the three terrorists responsible for Saturday's deadly attack on London Bridge.
Khuram Shazad Butt, 27, and Rachid Redouane, 30, both from Barking, East London, were identified as the perpetrators of the knife and van attack, which killed seven people and left 49 injured.
Butt was previously known to security services but the Met Police said there was no intelligence to suggest the attack was being planned. Redouane was not known to authorities, Scotland Yard said.
Police detained a number of people in early morning raids in east London as part of the investigation into the London Bridge attack which saw the attackers ram a van into pedestrians on London Bridge before stabbing revellers in bars in the nearby Borough Market.
Isis claimed responsibility for the attack, the third major militant assault to hit Britain in less than three months.
Two of the seven people who were killed have been named, and 21 people remain critically injured in hospital.
A Canadian woman, who died in her fiance's arms after being struck by the speeding van, was named as 30-year-old Christine Archibald.
A 32-year-old man from Hackney, James McMullan, has also been identified as one of the victim's by his family.
Isis was said to have urged extremists to run over civilians in a poster released over the weekend featuring a knife, handgun and lorry urging radicals to "gain benefit from Ramadan".
The three men, wearing fake suicide bomb vests, were shot dead by eight officers outside a pub after police opened fire with an "unprecedented" hail of 50 bullets, while a bystander was also shot.
Scotland Yard said seven women and five men aged between 19 and 60 were arrested under the Terrorism Act in Barking on Sunday. A 55-year-old man was later released without charge.
A vigil was held on Monday evening near London Bridge in honour of the victims of the attack, which took place at around 10pm, while a minute's silence will take place at 11am on Tuesday.
Sadiq Khan told mourners: "As Mayor of London I want to send a clear message to the sick and evil terrorists who commit these crimes: we will defeat you you will not win.
"As a proud and patriotic British Muslim, I now say this: you do not commit these disgusting acts in my name."
Network Rail said London Bridge rail and London Underground stations reopened at 5am but the rail station will be exit only.
People from around the world were caught up as hundreds cowered in pubs and restaurants, barricading themselves inside as the attackers stalked the streets.
Tales of heroism emerged in the aftermath, with one British Transport Police officer taking on the trio armed only with his baton before being stabbed in the head, face and leg.
An off-duty Metropolitan Police officer was also injured after he tackled the men.
Forty-eight people were left in hospital, 21 critically injured.
As counter-terrorism police units and security services launched a huge investigation for the third time in a matter of weeks, officers arrested a dozen people in raids on flats in Barking, east London, where residents said they believed one of the terrorists may have lived.
One neighbour said one of the attackers had recently asked him how he could hire a van.
Gurpreet Chandar, 18, who lives next door to the house raided in Newham, said he was watching the Manchester benefit concert just hours beforehand.
"I just thought it was either an explosion or a gunshot," he said, adding: "I was just really scared."
He said he could smell smoke after the banging noises.
"I'm such a heavy sleeper but that was loud," he said.
Mr Chandar said the people next door have been there for around two-and-a-half or three years, and he would have said "hi" to them.
"They're normal," he said, adding: "They're casual people, just normal people."
Mr Chandar said he thinks his father may have chatted to them about cricket or "normal" things.
Jeremy Corbyn has reportedly called for Theresa May's resignation over cuts to police.
The PM should step down because of the falling number of police officers, the Labour leader told ITV News.
Ms May faced sustained questioning on the subject during her press conference earlier today.
More detail now in our story about the Irish identity card found on one of the attackers
On Jeremy Corbyn saying Theresa May should resign:
While he said the election on Thursday was “perhaps the best opportunity” to remove the PM from her post, he also backed calls for her to resign.
He told ITV: “Indeed I would, because there's been calls made by a lot of very responsible people on this who are very worried that she was at the Home Office for all this time, presided over these cuts in police numbers and is now saying that we have a problem - yes, we do have a problem, we should never have cut the police numbers.”
Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, is making a statement at London Bridge.
He said: "When you discover that the victims included not just people who are from London, but people from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, France, Spain, and other parts of the world, you realise what a truly global city London is."
Mr Khan added he was "angry and furious that these three men are seeking to justify their actions by using the faith that I belong to".
Their acts were "cowardly" and "evil", he said, while their ideology was "perverse and poisonous".
The mayor praised the "amazing work of the police and emergency services".
"The speed of their response led to fewer lives being lost than would otherwise be the case."
Metropolitan Police commissioner Cressida Dick said in response to a journalist's question: "The events of the last nine weeks, the three ghastly attacks that we've suffered in this country, the five foiled plots, and the intensity of work of the counter terrorist network, does mean that all of us, and I think the Prime Minister said this yesterday, all of us need to look at the overall strategy, the tactics, the resourcing, and indeed what we're doing with and in our communities. There's a whole load of things to review."
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