ISIS has claimed responsibility for the stabbing rampage in London that left two dead and three seriously injured, and named Usman Khan, 28, as the individual responsible for the attack. The terrorist organization said through its Amaq news agency that Khan is a convicted terrorist out on Britain’s equivalent of parole.
“The person who carried out the London attack… was a fighter from the Islamic State, and did so in response to calls to target citizens of coalition countries,” ISIS said, referring to a multi-country alliance working against the group. It had previously been speculated that the attack may have been revenge for the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
According to Metropolitan Police commissioner Dame Cressida Dick, Khan is believed to have acted alone. He was shot and killed by armed police after attacking while wearing a fake suicide vest on London Bridge.
Jack Merritt, 25, a course coordinator with the group hosting a prison rehabilitation conference that Khan was attending, was amongst those killed when the terrorist stole two knives and began stabbing random people. A woman at the conference, who has not yet been publicly identified, was also killed. Three additional people have been hospitalized with wounds from the attack, including one man who is in a coma and another person in the intensive care unit at a London hospital.
Video footage from 2008 shows Khan, who would have been about 17 at the time, denying he was a terrorist as anti-terror police raided his home. He told BBC, “I’ve been born and bred in England, in Stoke-On-Trent, in Cobridge, and all the community knows me and they will know, if you ask them, they will know like these labels what they’re putting on us, like terrorist, this, that, they will know I ain’t no terrorist.”
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