She said that they were the ones who told her on Tuesday that one of the attackers in the London Bridge attacks was her son.
His family said: "While our pain will never diminish it is important for all of us to carry on with our lives in direct opposition to those who would try to destroy us".
The force says formal identification has not yet taken place, but Xavier Thomas' next of kin have been informed.
The trio of terrorists killed seven individuals and injured 48 more before armed officers killed all three within eight minutes of receiving a 999 call.
- Authorities said Butt was from the east London area of Barking. He had said he wanted to go to Syria to start a family, according to his mother.
"We are so proud of Kirsty's courageous actions which demonstrate how selfless, caring and heroic she was, not only on that night, but throughout all of her life", they added.
The van was used to mow down the first victims, killing three of them, as it mounted the pavement on the busy bridge last Saturday night.
"I saw him with the van on Friday. He was hit in the neck with a knife", he said. He was suspected of trying to travel to a Syria from Italy previous year, according to Italian media.
London's Borough Market remained sealed off Thursday, four days after attackers drove a rental van into a crowd and went on a stabbing rampage.
Zaghba was reportedly working in a London restaurant and had not been seen in Italy since 2016. Several British media reports on Tuesday, however, said he had been denied political asylum in Britain in 2009 but allowed to work years afterward in Ireland after he married his British wife.
Xavier Thomas and his girlfriend, Christine Delcros, who were visiting London for the weekend, are said to have both been victims.
And Mr McMullan's sister said he was believed to be among those who died, after his bank card was found on a body at the scene.
"I call on all those who have news of #Xavier #Thomas who is missing", she posted.
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Salman Abedi - the 22-year-old born in Britain to Libyan parents who killed 22 people in a suicide attack on a pop concert in Manchester last month - was also known to MI5 but not under active investigation.
The river's murky waters are being trawled by specialist officers from the Marine Policing Unit and Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).
The family of Sara Zelenak told Australia's ABC news they are "bracing for the worst" after she became separated from friends on Saturday night.
Mark Rowley, the Metropolitan police assistant commissioner, said the changes could cover police, MI5, communities, technology companies, the law and other policies. "There is nothing that I'm seeing at the moment that suggested that we got that wrong".
Ms Zelenak's mother Julie Wallace told Brisbane radio station 97.3FM she planned to fly to London to look for her daughter, who she described as a "very smart, sensible girl".
The mother of one of the attackers, who carried out London Bridge terror attacks last week, has blamed the Internet and his United Kingdom friends for her son's radicalisation.
The son's employer, HSBC, has provided the services of a private detective to aide in the hunt for information.
"The problem occurs when we know someone is moving in extremist circles but we don't have evidence to indicate that they are plotting an attack", said the British government official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
He has been criticised for voting against counter-terrorism legislation and expressing reservations about police responding to attacks with "shoot-to-kill" tactics.
However, one of the killers had been investigated five times, twice as a high priority, and it said more needed to be done in dealing with low-level suspects.
Thomas' girlfriend was struck and seriously injured by the van.
Sunday Express business editor Geoff Ho was left in intensive care after being stabbed in the throat when he tried to help a wounded bouncer. Police have not released the identity of the third attacker. Eight officers fire 46 bullets and kill the terrorists.
"Suspects are flagged up as having been exposed to radicalisation but doesn't immediately give an idea of how unsafe they might be", he said.
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