Police identify third London attacks suspect as Italian-Moroccan

[Image: (L-R) Khuram Shazad Butt, Rachid Redouane and Youssef Zaghba]The Met's Counter Terrorism Command has released the name and photograph of the third attacker shot dead by police following the terrorist attacks on London Bridge and at Borough Market on Saturday.
The Met police's website says that while formal identification is yet to take place, detectives believe he is 22-year-old Youssef Zaghba, from east London. The deceased's family have been informed.
He is believed to be an Italian national of Moroccan dissent. He was not a police or MI5 subject of interest, the police add.
All three men involved in the attack were confronted and shot dead by armed officers within eight minutes of the first call.
The other two were named on June 5 as Pakistani-born British citizen Khuram Shazad Butt, 27, and Rachid Redouane, 30, from Barking, had claimed to be Moroccan and Libyan. He also used the name Rachid Elkhdar, with a different date of birth of 31.7.91.
The police added that they have also arrested a man at an address in Barking this morning.
[M], a 27-year-old man, was arrested under the Terrorism Act earlier today.
AFP adds: ItalyΒ΄s main newspapers said ZaghbaΒ΄s mother was from Bologna and his father was Moroccan.

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