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June 2017 London attack
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terror attack in London
Key facts
- Location
- London Bridge and Borough Market area, London , United Kingdom
- Date
- 3 June 2017 ; 9 years ago ( 2017-06-03 ) , 22:06–22:16 ( BST )
- Attack type
- Vehicle-ramming attack , stabbing , Islamic terrorism
- Weapons
- Renault Master van, ceramic knives , 13 Molotov cocktails (unused)
- Deaths
- 11 (including the 3 perpetrators)
- Injured
- 48 (21 critically)
- Assailants
- Khuram Shazad Butt , Rachid Redouane , Youssef Zaghba
- Motive
- Islamist extremism
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mass murder
- Part of
- Islamic terrorism in Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- London
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Location
- Borough Market
- Image
- Borough High Street after the Terrorist Attack (35080024946).jpg
- Number of deaths
- 11
- Number of injured
- 48
- Participant
- Islamic State
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- point in time
- 2017-06-03
- number of perpetrators
- 3
- armament
- van
- Commons category
- June 2017 London attack
- has cause
- Islamic extremism
- described at URL
- www.bbc.com/news/uk-40150689
- target
- civilian
- historic county
- Middlesex
Sources (10)
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Encyclopedic overview
On 3 June 2017, a terrorist vehicle-ramming and stabbing attack took place in London, England. A van was deliberately driven into pedestrians on London Bridge, and then crashed on Borough High Street, just south of the River Thames. The van's three occupants then ran to the nearby Borough Market area and began stabbing people in and around restaurants and pubs. They were shot dead by Metropolitan Police and City of London Police firearms officers, and were found to be wearing fake explosive vests.
Eight people were killed and forty-eight were injured, including members of the public and four unarmed police officers who attempted to stop the assailants. British authorities described the perpetrators as "radical Islamist terrorists". The Islamic State (ISIS) claimed responsibility for the attack.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “June 2017 London attack” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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