ISIS claims responsibility for the London Bridge attack

The terrorist group «Islamic State» (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for the London Bridge attack through its propaganda «news agency» Amaq, AFP reports.

ISIS claimed that «the 28-year-old convicted terrorist was one of its fighters», wrote the Independent. The terrorist group’s announcement comes after Usman Khan killed two people in a knife terrorist attack in London Bridge on Friday before being shot dead by police.

The attacker was a former prisoner convicted of terrorism, according to investigators. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison for belonging to a group that wanted to commit a bombing attack on the London Stock Exchange.

The group also planned to establish a terrorist training camp in Pakistan on a land that belonged to his family in Kashmir. The name of Boris Johnson, at the time mayor of London, had been found on a handwritten list of potential targets of the group.