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Jack Merritt & Saskia Jones ID’d As London Bridge Stabbing Victims

LONDON, UK. (THECOUNT) — Jack Merritt, of Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, and Saskia Jones, of Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, have been identified as two victims fatally stabbed on London Bridge Friday, according to Sunday morning reports.

Merritt, 25, and Jones, 23, were killed and three others were hospitalized after they were stabbed in a terror attack near the London Bridge on Friday afternoon, authorities said.

British police have identified Usman Khan as the suspect who stabbed two people to death in London on Friday on London Bridge, reports ABCNEWS.

Khan, 28, had been previously convicted of terrorism offenses and was released from prison last year.

“This individual was known to authorities, having been convicted in 2012 for terrorism offences,” said Britain’s top counter-terrorism police officer Neil Basu in a statement.

“He was released from prison in December 2018 on license and clearly, a key line of enquiry now is to establish how he came to carry out this attack,” Reuters is reporting Friday night.

A number of people have been injured in a stabbing incident at London Bridge, according to Metropolitan Police.

A suspect has been detained, according to local reports.

The London Ambulance Service said a number of crews were at the scene and a major incident had been declared.

“Police were called at 1:58 p.m. to a stabbing at premises near to London Bridge,” the force said.

Images and video on social media show emergency vehicles on the bridge, and onlookers reported hearing what sounded like gunshots at the scene, reports ABCActionNews.

Jinnat Ui Hasan told CNN he was in a meeting in a building near the incident when he heard “more than five” gunshots.

Elsewhere, Steve Beer, 26, told CNN that his place of work which overlooks the bridge was in lockdown.

Police earlier told CNN it was dealing with a “dynamic situation.”

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Geo quick facts: London, the capital of England and the United Kingdom, is a 21st-century city with history stretching back to Roman times. At its centre stand the imposing Houses of Parliament, the iconic ‘Big Ben’ clock tower and Westminster Abbey, site of British monarch coronations. Across the Thames River, the London Eye observation wheel provides panoramic views of the South Bank cultural complex, and the entire city – wikipedia.

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