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| London attack: Police find body in river | |
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| Police searching for French national Xavier Thomas, 45, who has been missing since the London terror attack, have recovered a body from the Thames. | Police searching for French national Xavier Thomas, 45, who has been missing since the London terror attack, have recovered a body from the Thames. |
| Scotland Yard said the body was recovered from the river near Limehouse on Tuesday at 19:44 BST. | Scotland Yard said the body was recovered from the river near Limehouse on Tuesday at 19:44 BST. |
| Mr Thomas's next of kin have been told, police said, but formal identification has not yet taken place. | Mr Thomas's next of kin have been told, police said, but formal identification has not yet taken place. |
| The BBC also understands Sara Zelenak, a 21-year-old Australian from Brisbane, is among the dead. | |
| She was working as an au pair in London, and was seen fleeing from the knifemen during the attack. | |
| Police have named Youssef Zaghba, a 22-year-old Moroccan-Italian man who lived in east London, Khuram Butt, 27, from Barking, and Rachid Redouane, 30, who also lived in Barking, as the men who carried out the attack. | |
| They drove into pedestrians on London Bridge before stabbing people in Borough Market on Saturday. | |
| So far four of those killed in the attack have been named as Australian Kirsty Boden, Canadian national Chrissy Archibald, James McMullan, from Hackney, and French national Alexandre Pigeard. | |
| French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian confirmed on Wednesday that a second French citizen had died. | |
| Mr Thomas was last seen walking along London Bridge with his girlfriend Christine Delcros, who was seriously injured. | |
| Under surveillance | |
| Speaking at her house in Bologna, Italy, Zaghba's mother told the BBC that she believed her son was radicalised in the UK. | |
| She claimed her son was under surveillance when he was in Italy, but she questioned why this was not the case in the UK. | |
| An Italian police source has confirmed to the BBC that Zaghba had been placed on a watch list, which is shared with many countries, including the UK. | |
| In March 2016, Italian officers stopped Zaghba at Bologna airport and found IS-related materials on his mobile phone. He was then stopped from continuing his journey to Istanbul. | |
| The BBC understands he was not prosecuted but was listed on the Schengen Information System, an EU-wide database which includes details of potential suspects. | |
| When Zaghba entered Britain, staff at passport control should automatically have been alerted by the Schengen system, BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said. | |
| "One unconfirmed report suggests that did happen, apparently when Zaghba arrived at Stansted Airport in January - but that border staff still let him in," he said. |