British police name third London attacker as Youssef Zaghba from Italy

British police on Tuesday named Youssef Zaghba (right) as the third of the jihadis who attacked and killed seven people in a knife and van attack in London as an Italian national of Moroccan descent, attacker after Khuram Butt and Rachid Redouane were earlier announced as the other two attackers.

Italian investigative source said he had been flagged to Britain as a potential risk after moving to England last year. According to police, he's a Moroccan-Italian who is reported to have been stopped at an airport in Italy on suspicion that he was bound for Syria. 

Police said Zaghba, 22 lived in east London and that his family has been notified, adding that he had not been considered to be a “subject of interest” to either police or the intelligence services.

The other two attackers were named Monday as Khuram Shazad Butt and Rachid Redouane.

The three, who were wearing fake suicide vests, were shot dead late Saturday after ramming a van into pedestrians on London Bridge and then slashing and stabbing people in nearby Borough Market in the attack that left seven people dead and 48 were injured.

Media reports in Italy however said Italian authorities had alerted their British counterparts about his movements. The Italian newspaper Corriere della Serra said Zaghba was stopped at a Bologna airport in 2016 with a one-way ticket to Istanbul.

London police earlier admitted that one of the other two attackers, Khuram Shazad Butt, was on their radar as a member of the outlawed radical Islamist group al-Muhajiroun, co-founded by notorious hate preacher Anjem Choudary.