The Latest on the attacks in the London Bridge area (all times local) :
LONDON (AP) – The Latest on the attacks in the London Bridge area (all times local) : 1: 30 p.m. Family members of a 21-year-old Australian nanny who is missing in London after the London Bridge attacks are pleading for information and raising money to fly her parents to Britain. Sara Zelenak’s mother Julie Wallace told Brisbane radio station 97.3FM that the family had planned to meet Sara in Europe soon. “We were counting down the days to see her, ” Wallace said. “The last time I spoke to her was our time Friday afternoon at 4: 42 and she said, ‘Oh mum! It’s only 28 days until you and I and dad can have baguettes and cheese and croissants in Paris.” A woman named Tara who identified herself as Sara Zelenak’s aunt said the family is “bracing for the worst.” Speaking to media Tuesday outside the family’s home in Ormiston in eastern Australia, the aunt called Zelenak a “special, kindred spirit.” London police said Australian woman Kirsty Boden was among the seven killed, and the Australian government confirmed that two Australians are among the injured. Australia’s prime minister says officials are working to try to find out what happened to Zelenak. ___ 1: 20 p.m. Surveillance video from a bar in Borough Market obtained by local Spanish newspaper Diario de Pontevedra shows the moment when one of the assailants in Saturday’s attack is blocked from accessing a packed bar moments before he was shot by the police. The camera captured how staff at the Arthur Hooper’s bar sheltered customers and other passers-by as the attack unfolded, the newspaper said. As various people try to close off the entrance, manager Sergio Farina can be seen wrestling the door against one of the assailants who is trying to charge against it. “The police opened fired when one person was stabbed, ” Farina told the newspaper, adding that the assailant was shot by the police a few meters away from the bar’s entrance. The manager’s brother, Rafael, a reporter with Diario de Pontevedra, told the AP that 28 people were sheltered that night in the bar. He said his brother, who has lived in London for 16 years, was more shocked about the events than proud of his action. “My brother doesn’t want to be a hero, he just did what anybody would do, ” said Rafael Farina. ___ 1 p.m. The Pakistani cousin of one of the London Bridge killers said the attack has shattered his family. Bilal Dar told The Associated Press in the Pakistani city of Jhelum that his cousin, Khurum Butt, lived in the city until he was about 7 years old. Dar said the last time he spoke to Butt it wasn’t obvious that he had turned to radical Islamist beliefs. “Our family is hurt by what he did, ” Dar said. “This has destroyed our family’s pride.” Dar, 18, said that Pakistani intelligence agents were interviewing relatives. ___ 12: 55 p.m. The mayor of London says he couldn’t care less about the accusatory tweets being issued by the president of the United States. Sadiq Khan told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he “really couldn’t be bothered about what Donald Trump tweets.” Trump has repeatedly singled out the mayor of London for criticism following the van-and-knife attack on Saturday night that left seven people dead and scores more injured. Khan in turn has asked the government to reconsider its decision to invite Trump for a state visit, a move the mayor described as “inappropriate.” Khan spoke to the AP outside the headquarters of London’s Ambulance Service following a minute of silence held in honor of the victims of the attack. ___ 12: 20 p.m. The Italian daily Corriere della Sera reported Tuesday that Youssef Zaghba, the third named London Bridge attacker, had been stopped in Italy while trying to go to Syria in 2016. Zaghba, who was said to be born in Morocco to a Moroccan father and an Italian mother, was stopped at Bologna’s Marconi airport on March 15,2016, while he tried to take a flight to Turkey. He was allegedly on his way to Syria and was carrying only a backpack. The report said that Italy had put him on a watch list and flagged his presence to Moroccan and British authorities. The parents lived for a time in Morocco and when they separated the mother returned to Italy and re-established herself in Bologna. Zaghba was reportedly working in a London restaurant and had not been seen in Italy since 2016. A British government official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about the attack investigation confirmed the details of the Italian report, and said that the man had not been considered a “person of interest, ” meaning they had no reason to think he was violent or planning an attack. ___ 12: 10 p.m. Police have identified another victim of the London Bridge attacks as Australian nurse Kirsty Boden, releasing a statement from her family praising her work and her effort to help other victims. The Metropolitan Police issued a statement Tuesday on behalf of her family saying, “As she ran towards danger, in an effort to help people on the bridge, Kirsty sadly lost her life.” Police did not elaborate on how she was killed. The family said her actions “demonstrate how selfless, caring and heroic she was, not only on that night, but throughout all of her life.” Australian media reported that Boden was 28 and from Loxton in southern Australia. Boden was among seven people killed in the Saturday night attacks. Another Australian woman, Sara Zelenak, has been reported missing since the attack. ___ 11: 50 a.m. British police have named the third London Bridge attacker at 22-year-old Youssef Zaghba, believed to be an Italian national of Moroccan descent. Police said Tuesday he is from east London and his family has been notified. Police say he was not a “subject of interest” to police or the intelligence services. The other two attackers were named Monday as Khuram Shazad Butt and Rachid Redouane. ___ 11: 35 a.m. People across Britain have paused for a moment of silence to remember those killed and injured in the London Bridge attack. Commuters paused in train stations, hospital staff gathered in hospital foyers and workers stopped work in government offices at 11 a.m. (1000GMT) . Ambulance workers, many of whom treated the wounded in Saturday’s attack, gathered outside their headquarters alongside Mayor Sadiq Khan. Dozens of people gathered in driving rain at the end of London Bridge, where a growing mound of flowers sits beside a police cordon. Seven people were killed and almost 50 injured when three attackers ran down pedestrians on the bridge, then stabbed passers-by in nearby Borough Market. The attackers were shot dead by police. ___ 10: 40 a.m. The gym where one of the London Bridge attackers trained says they saw nothing of concern during his time there. In a letter posted outside, the Ummah Fitness Centre said staff would “help the police in any way we can” as investigators try to learn more about Khuram Shazad Butt. Butt was among three men who rammed a van into pedestrians on London Bridge and then stabbed people in nearby Borough Market. Seven people died and dozens were wounded during the attack late Saturday.
