Three assailants kill 7 in London terror attack
By AFP
04 June 2017 |
10:13 am
Three assailants smashed a van into pedestrians on London Bridge before attacking revellers in a popular nightlife hub with knives, leaving seven dead in the third deadly terror attack in Britain since March.
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