Footage of the moment police shot and "neutralized" the three terrorists responsible for last weekend’s deadly attack in London has emerged.
The CCTV video shows the three terrorists - Khuram Butt, Rachid Redouane and Youssef Zaghba - stabbing and wounding an unsuspecting passerby before they're shot and killed by police. The whole video is exactly a minute long. As part of their 8 minute rampage, the attackers killed eight and wounded 50 this weekend by ramming a car into pedestrians on the south side of London Bridge before using machetes to indiscriminately stab late-night revelers who were out at bars in the area.
Police previously said that the eight officers who neutralized the suspected terrorists fired about 50 rounds during their confrontation with the attacker according to Reuters.
The Times of London obtained video of the three attackers gathering outside the Ummah Fitness Center, a gym in east London where Butt trained. Earlier in the week, the gym posted a note on its door saying that, while Butt did occasionally train there, they did not know him well or have any reason to suspect that he was plotting an attack.
Police and intelligence agencies in the UK are facing criticism over their ability to thwart terror attacks. Each of the attackers in the three terror incidents that have rocked the UK since the beginning of the year – Saturday’s attack in London, the bombing at Manchester Arena late last month, and another attack at Westminster Bridge in March – had been known to authorities.
Around the time that the video surfaced, counter-terrorism officials announced that they had arrested two men on the street in East London, while a third man was detained at his home nearby, on charges linked to the attack. Those arrests followed a string of apprehensions on Sunday, when police took 12 people into custody, among them seven women. Those arrests were made in the Barking neighborhood of East London, where at least one of the London attackers was believed to have lived. Those arrested ranged in age from 19 to 60.
Butt had been investigated by police in 2015, the same year that he appeared in a Channel 4 documentary “The Jihadist Next Door.” During one scene in the documentary, Butt can be seen praying in front of an ISIS flag.
Before this weekend's attack, the Times of London reported that intelligence agencies had identified 23,000 potential jihadis living in Britain, of this 'pool' of potential terrorists, 3,000 are suspected of posing an “imminent threat” and are being investigated accordingly.