The second man, Rachid Redouane, had not aroused any suspicions.
Another attacker, 30-year-old Rachid Redouane, went by the alias Rachid Elkhdar and claimed to be Moroccan or Libyan, police said.
Three men arrested in a series of raids Wednesday in east London are suspected of having been in the final stages of plotting a terror attack in the British capital similar to the murderous rampage carried out last Saturday at London Bridge, say officials.
In fact, Butt was one of the main characters in a television documentary called The Jihadis Next Door. The attackers were shot dead by police.
She also spoke fondly about her brother, calling him "generous and caring". "This is a passing time for us".
Butt from Barking is believed to have been born in the Jhelum area.
Zaghba "was not a police or MI5 subject of interest", according to the Metropolitan Police.
"It was wrong what he was doing", Gasparri said. I got on the tube and there was an announcement saying the station next to where I live (Bank Underground Station), was on lockdown. "I think everyone is just moving on", she added. He said the vehicle was seen going the wrong way down a one-way street and was later seen speeding off, followed closely by a small red auto. "But we are searching the homes of any relatives connected to him and we are tracing all telephone calls made by family members", the official said.
Butt and his two accomplices drove a hired van into pedestrians on London Bridge before stabbing people in the area around Borough Market.
Fabio Lamas, 20, who works at a pub in Borough Market, told NBC he saw the three attackers wearing body armor and brandishing knives before the police arrived. The three assailants were shot dead by police.
After a brief pause, election campaigning resumed on Monday, with security dominating the agenda ahead of Thursday's vote.
The "evil ideology of Islamist extremism. will only be defeated when we turn people's minds away from this violence and make them understand that our values, pluralistic British values, as superior to anything offered by the preachers and supporters of hate", British Prime Minister Theresa May said.
China concerned over 'killing' of kidnapped nationals in Pakistan
A young couple teaching Chinese in a town in Balochistan were kidnapped last month, while a third Chinese national escaped. A Baluchistan government spokesman said officials were in the process of confirming "whether the report is true".
"There's an election on Thursday, that's the chance", he said, citing an "appalling" cut in police staffing levels. And that is a question that will need to be answered by MI5, by the police, as the investigation goes on.
She warned that while police had managed to foil five attacks in recent months, it was possible they were witnessing the start of a wave of copycat assaults by freshly emboldened homegrown radicals.
Under the British government's counterterrorism program, residents are encouraged to alert police to suspicious activity. From there, a number of scenarios can unfold. The market was unlikely to open before Sunday, according to police. "That's where the question of resources comes into play".
More people were detained in east London early Monday in connection with the attack.
Police on Monday named two of the attackers and said they were trying to identify the third.
People across Britain have paused for a moment of silence to remember those killed and injured in the London Bridge attack.
It was lowered once intelligence agencies were comfortable that this wasn't the case.
The Spanish government said the failure of British authorities to provide details of the fate of Spaniard Ignacio Echeverría to his family was "a situation that isn't far off being described as inhumane".
As the investigation expanded to look at how the men knew one another and whether they were part of a larger conspiracy, Pakistani intelligence authorities swooped Tuesday into the town of Jhelum, where Khurum Butt lived until the time he was 7, when he moved to Britain.
Alexandre Pigeard, 26, was originally from Normandy but had been living in London for more than two years.
It provided a kaleidoscope of London's diversity, with Buddist monks in saffron robes, Christian clerics in purple cassocks and Muslims in black T-shirts bearing the words "I am a Muslim: Ask me anything". "You will not win".
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