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Updated 2.45pm
SEVEN PEOPLE WERE killed in Saturday’s terror assault in central London and 48 others taken to hospital.
The dead include an Australian woman, a Canadian woman and a French man, while the injured came from a variety of countries including Bulgaria, Germany and New Zealand.
Here is what we know about the victims so far.
Australian nurse
Australian nurse Kirsty Boden, 28, was killed as she ran to try to help the wounded on London Bridge, her family said in a statement.
She worked in post-operative care at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, right next to the bridge and Borough Market.
A statement released by her family through the Metropolitan Police said: “Kirsty was loved and adored by her family, friends and boyfriend. She was the most outgoing, kind and generous person who loved to help people. Helping people was what she loved to do in her job as a nurse and in her daily life.
As she ran towards danger, in an effort to help people on the bridge, Kirsty sadly lost her life. We are so proud of Kirsty’s brave actions which demonstrate how selfless, caring and heroic she was, not only on that night, but throughout all of her life. Kirsty – we love you and we will miss you dearly.
“We will not be making any further comments on this tragedy and ask everyone, especially the media, to give us the privacy we need to grieve away from the public eye.”
Guy’s chief nurse Eileen Sills said Boden was an “outstanding nurse” who “always went the extra mile” for her patients. Her colleagues called her “one in a million”.
Canadian killed on bridge
Christine Archibald, a 30-year-old Canadian, died in her fiance Tyler Ferguson’s arms after the attackers’ van mowed her down on London Bridge.
“My baby brother lost the love of his life,” Cassie Ferguson Rowe wrote on Facebook.
“In a split second his entire life was ripped away from him.”
Archibald was a charity worker. Her family said in a statement: “She had room in her heart for everyone and believed strongly that every person was to be valued and respected.
She lived this belief, working in a shelter for the homeless until she moved to Europe to be with her fiance.
“She would have had no understanding of the callous cruelty that caused her death.”
Stopped for a smoke
Another victim is believed to be James McMullan.
The 32-year-old from Hackney, east London, was identified by a bank card found on his body, according to his sister.
He had been drinking with friends and had stepped out for a smoke from The Barrowboy & Banker, a pub near where the attackers crashed their van before launching a stabbing spree.
“While our pain will never diminish, it is important for us all to carry on with our lives in direct opposition to those who wish to destroy us and remember that hatred is the refuge of small-minded individuals,” Melissa McMullan told Sky News.
“He was an inspiration,” she added.
French bistro worker
A Frenchman was also killed in the attack, Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said. The man has not yet been formally identified by officials or his family, but relatives named him as Alexandre.
He had family links in the Brittany port town of Saint-Malo on the northwest French coast but was not from there himself, local mayor Claude Renoult told AFP.
Local newspapers said the man lived in London and worked in Boro Bistro, a Breton-run restaurant in Borough Market.
A tribute note signed from the “Boro Bistro family”, left at the scene of the attack, said in French: “Alex, I hope that the place where you are now will be even more beautiful and peaceful than the desert of Jordan. With all my love. Rest in peace.”
‘Heroic’ policeman among wounded
An off-duty, unarmed London policeman who was having a post-work drink rushed to help. He is now in hospital in a serious condition, police chief Cressida Dick said, adding that he had been “utterly heroic”.
A British Transport Police officer, one of the first on the scene, was also stabbed in the face, head and leg and taken to hospital, but his injuries are not thought to be life-threatening. A further two officers were wounded.
Geoff Ho, business editor at the Sunday Express newspaper, was outside the Southwark Tavern pub. He tried to help a bouncer who was being attacked but was stabbed in the throat himself.
The martial artist was filmed being led away by a policeman, clutching his neck.
Oliver Dowling, 32, from Christchurch in New Zealand, is in a coma after being stabbed in the face, neck and stomach. His girlfriend was also injured, reports said.
Two Australians were stabbed in the neck. Candice Hedge is recovering in hospital, while Andrew Morrison received stitches and was discharged.
A Greek man, who left his country in 2011 because of the economic crisis to seek a new life in London, was also among the injured.
Ignacio Echeverria, a 39-year-old Spaniard and HSBC expert in the fight against money-laundering, was still missing, last seen trying to defend a woman from one of the attackers with his skateboard.
He was returning from a skate park across London Bridge and came upon the site of the rampage, Spanish media reported. He was last seen lying on the ground and has not been heard from since.
On a visit to London Monday, Le Drian said two French citizens had been missing since Saturday’s rampage and another eight were wounded.
The foreign ministry in Berlin said Germans were also among the injured, one of them seriously.
- © AFP 2017 with reporting by Órla Ryan
Just listened to two radio stations interview two experts about this war on our streets. Both were at pains to point out that all muslims must not be tarnished by these attacks and one even called on us not to be suspicious of our muslim neighbours. Why do we have to be so good all the time though? Of course we should be suspicious. Suspicion might be the saving grace for another attack. I think im smart enough to distinguish between blind racism and being a good citizen whos alert to whats around him.
This urge to always be politically correct is our greatest weakness.
@damien o brien: you should be suspicious if you see suspicious behaviour. If you’re suspicious of someone purely due to their religion and nothing else then yes you are prejudiced. Instead of directing your anger at the average Joe Muslim maybe you should look more closely at your own government and allies who have created this mess and financed the groups creating the terror.
@The Guru: Over 1 Billion Muslims… and 15-25% are radicalized, some stats say 7-10 % are. Lets just land safely in the middle and say 12% are radical extremist. That is still 120 Million Muslims in the world creating chaos. How do we address the 120 Million that are not peace loving?
@Philip Brady: stop quoting those nonsense numbers from alt right sites, there are 2.7 million Muslims in the UK, with your “safely” estimate there should be 324000 radicals, while intelligence services say there about 23000
@Red Marauder: what alt right sight?
@Philip Brady: How do we address the Americans, British et al who are not exactly ‘peace loving’ with their interventions in the middle east?
@Neil Mcdonough: Oh f**k off, terrorist apologists make me vomit.
@Philip Brady: no let’s not “land safely in the middle”. How about you provide a credible source for those stats?
@CeannairBlue: Yeah, shut down debate by screaming TERRORIST APOLOGIST why don’t ya. Clown.
@Neil Mcdonough: ok then, what would a world be like without America, do you think it would be as peaceful or less?
@Neil Mcdonough: Look, you people apologise for idiots – one of which spread his hateful idiology here for over a year – and that is exactly what you are.
@The Guru: its interesting that you mention stats, usually a place we would first look for credible statistics would be colleges, but they are so over run by liberal ideology that real issues are not getting tackled. liberal ideology is affecting research in colleges. They drool over Chomsky and Carl Marx but question anything out side of their beliefs and you’ll have hell to pay. People think they are very progressive when criticizing America on foreign policy, but they just will not look at things out side of their ideas.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/05/26/muslims-and-islam-key-findings-in-the-u-s-and-around-the-world/
@Philip Brady: Who knows? Maybe the middle east wouldn’t have been destroyed though. You’re a westerner, it’s petrol that enables your lifestyle, and I’ll let you join the dots from there . . .
@Philip Brady: wild and totally extravagant extrapolation.
@damien o brien: While it is true that all Muslims are not to be tarred with the same brush as the terrorist members if you promote a holy book that preaches violence you have to admit that you have that part in it.
@CeannairBlue: It’s only ‘apologising’ to hysterical cowards like yourself, if we don’t follow your blind fear-filled goodies and baddies alt-right narrative. Now if you can’t hold an adult conversation, go away and hide under your mammy’s bed. Good lad . . .
@Tony Daly: Youre welcome to prove me wrong
RIP.
Despite the rhetoric it’s becoming more and more apparent that the governments of western societies are unable to protect the lives of its citizens from the threat of terror.
The only hope of survival for ordinary folk at this point is not to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
@Carl Ingalls: there’s is a reason we don’t see planes fly into buildings, or chemical and biological attacks happening , we forced the enemy to stone age tactics, and we will deal with this, there are numerous options, we just need the ones that keep the fabric of society unharmed
@Carl Ingalls: over reactive over statement by an unwitting stooge of the Jihadist agenda. You exaggerate the threat.
@Tony Daly: You idiot. “Exaggerate the threat” ? What nonsense.
I remain more and more convinced you are either mentally ill or the PR team from the Closkeagh Mosque. Likely both.
@CeannairBlue: Your hysterical fear-induced dribbling suggests you live in an exaggerated state of paranoia, you need to get out more . . .
@Neil Mcdonough: I get out plenty thanks. Mainly to get away from the fluffy liberals and their f****** kumbayah thinking.
@CeannairBlue: What a brave anonymous keyboard warrior you are. Sure you’ll be signing up any day now to do some actual fighting won’t you. And it seems the only thing you’re trying to get away from is some mature actual thinking. Poor terrified pet.
Islam needs to amend their book to suit our values and laws.
@Philip Brady: read the Bible some time, it’s more bloody than any thing else
@Philip Brady: Why? Is it unacceptable to you that there are others in the world who aren’t exactly like you? That’s as stupid as saying we need to suit their values and laws. The west is far from perfect and many other ‘peoples’ would find our imperialistic behaviour and general hedonistic culture offensive. Get off your high horse and actually try to see from another’s perspective sometimes.
@Neil Mcdonough: Interesting your avatar is a camel, given that your friends who you defend clearly spend a great of time loving all the Middle East has to offer – stoning the innocent, killing unbelievers, oppression of women etc.
@B9xiRspG: You might as well have said, Ever see terminator 2? Loads of violence in that so there is.
@B9xiRspG: We could easily end up with Christian fundamentalists who are as bad as ISIS. Interestingly God in the Bible gives a recipe for an adulterous wife who is pregnant to lose her baby as the result of a priest giving her dirt from the sanctuary floor. evil holy books mean anything can happen.
@CeannairBlue: Yawn . . .
@B9xiRspG: its bloody and pure man made nonsense but it doesnt urge christians to slaughter non believers, apostates , gays and mutilate babies
To add insult to injury to the victims not one politician has the courage to admit that selling arms and weapons to the headchoppers of Saudi and other dictators who in turn support Isis is fuelling the terror, not even slaughter on the streets is enough to interfere with the arms industry.
@Dave Hogan: Sure the ‘war on terror’ is great for business . . .
@Neil Mcdonough: Any war is good for business, sadly
“terror attacks are part and parcel of living in a big city” – who said that ?
@cortisola: stupid people
@Giovanni Casermaggio: Actually it was London Mayor Sadiq Khan last September.
@cortisola: And he’s right. Unfortunately in the world as it is now major cities are terrorist targets. People need to accept that. It’s impossible to police everyone no matter how much intelligence is gathered. Khan was warning about the risks of terrorism and how London needs to be prepared to deal with such attacks long before being elected mayor. He had a fatwa put on his head and was offered police protection as hardline Muslims hated his liberal views such as being a huge supporter of women’s rights, same sex marriage and his anti terror stance with regards to radicalisation. Terrorism is a fact of life now and people criticising a man for saying we need to be prepared for it when it happens is beyond stupid.
Same history with cars – there were cities without car accidents for ages, then cars come with all industrialization, and car accidents started to be normal casual part of living in the city. Now same with terrorists.
Terrorists had no access to guns or explosives, were eliminated within 8 minutes, 3 dead terrorists and failed to cow the Londoners.
The only hope for a successful outcome is for a Tory victory. The Jihadists need a Tory victory and they may succeed in that but they won’t defeat the Londoners and Mancunians.
@Tony Daly: the guy who held is dying fiancé might disagree with your defiant rhetoric.
@Tony Daly: 7 people’s families utterly disagree with you
@A H: argument as to emotion.
Christine Archibald was not a person for hate or fear. Her family have properly honoured her.
The calm dignity of survivors, families of victims and those who live in Manchester and London contrasts with the hysterical fear mongering of some of the commenters who wish to serve the Jihadist agenda by stirring up hatred of all Muslims.
There is a threat but the threat is being managed and controlled with the help and support of moderate Muslims.
@Tony Daly: Nobody is stirring up hate against all Muslims. We merely want them to take a more sceptical view of their holy book and sharia. Strong faith always causes trouble. Catholics who doubt their religion are great people – it is the ones who are certain we have to worry about.
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