ISIS claims London Bridge attack was carried out by one of its fighters
ISIS has tonight claimed the London Bridge terror attack was carried out by one of its fighters.
Usman Khan killed two people and injured more when he went on a deadly rampage yesterday lunchtime.
The terror organisation's news agency has now said Khan, 28, was one of its fighters.
However, the group did not provide any evidence.
It added that the attack was made in response to Islamic State calls to target countries that have been part of a coalition fighting the jihadist group.
Convict Khan, who was released from jail last year for terrorism offences, had been attending a prisoner rehabilitation event at Fishmongers' Hall before he unleashed horror.
He proceeded to expose a fake suicide vest, pull out two knives and threaten to blow up the building.
He then killed two innocent people – including Jack Merritt , 25.
Inside Fishmongers' Hall where terrorist Usman Khan began London Bridge attack
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Screams filled the hall before Khan stormed onto London Bridge and was chased by a heroic man who armed himself with a 5-ft long narwhal tusk that he had grabbed from the wall inside the hall.
Members of the public wrestled him to the ground before he was shot by armed officers five minutes later.
Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said Khan had been living in the Staffordshire area and that police were "not actively seeking anyone else" over the attack.
Police have been searching a three-storey block of flats in Wolverhampton Road, in Stafford, where he is believed to have lived.
In February 2012, Khan, who had been based in Stoke-on-Trent, was handed an open-ended indeterminate sentence for public protection over his part in an al Qaida-inspired terror group.
They plotted to bomb the London Stock Exchange and build a terrorist training camp on land in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir owned by his family.
A list of other potential targets included the names and addresses of the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in London, then London mayor Mr Johnson, two rabbis, and the American Embassy in London.
But the sentence for Khan, along with two co-conspirators, was quashed at the Court of Appeal in April 2013 and he was given a determinate 16-year jail term and freed on licence in December last year and made to wear the tag.
The Parole Board said it had no involvement in his release and that Khan "appears to have been released automatically on licence (as required by law), without ever being referred to the board".
Friday's attack came weeks after the UK's terrorism threat level was downgraded to "substantial" from "severe", meaning attacks were thought to be "likely" rather than "highly likely".
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