British police arrested a dozen people in a widening investigation into yesterday's London attack into which seven people were killed and 48 injured. <br/><br/>The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility today. The officials said, although the police shot dead three attackers, authorities raced to determine whether they had accomplices. <br/>'<br/>Meanwhile, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that a Canadian was among the dead. A French national was also confirmed dead.<br/>'<br/>British Prime Minister Theresa May yesterday warned that the country faced a new threat from copycat attacks.<br/>'<br/>The country's major political parties temporarily suspended campaigning with only days to go before the general election. May said the vote would take place as scheduled Thursday because "violence can never be allowed to disrupt the democratic process.<br/>'<br/>The rampage was the third major attack in Britain in the past three months, including a similar vehicle and knife attack on Westminster Bridge in March that left five people dead. On 22nd last month, a suicide bomber killed 22 people and injured dozens at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, in northwest England.<br/><br/>US President Donald Trump has vowed to do whatever necessary to protect the US and its allies from a vile enemy that has waged war on innocent lives. <br/><br/>In his first public comments after yesterday's van and knife attack in London, he said America sends its thoughts and prayers and its deepest sympathies to the victims and renew its resolve, stronger than ever before, to protect the United States and its allies. <br/><br/>Mr. Trump said, he had spoken with British Prime Minister Theresa May and offered the Washington's unwavering support in investigating the terror attacks at the London Bridge and Borough Market in the heart of the British capital.<br/><br/>Seven people were killed and 48 injured yesterday when three knife-wielding attackers in fake suicide vests unleashed a terror rampage in London, plowing a van into pedestrians on the iconic London Bridge before stabbing revellers in nearby Borough market yesterday. <br/><br/>The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the London attacks.'

British police arrested a dozen people in a widening investigation into yesterday's London attack into which seven people were killed and 48 injured. <br/><br/>The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility today. The officials said, although the police shot dead three attackers, authorities raced to determine whether they had accomplices. <br/>'<br/>Meanwhile, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that a Canadian was among the dead. A French national was also confirmed dead.<br/>'<br/>British Prime Minister Theresa May yesterday warned that the country faced a new threat from copycat attacks.<br/>'<br/>The country's major political parties temporarily suspended campaigning with only days to go before the general election. May said the vote would take place as scheduled Thursday because "violence can never be allowed to disrupt the democratic process.<br/>'<br/>The rampage was the third major attack in Britain in the past three months, including a similar vehicle and knife attack on Westminster Bridge in March that left five people dead. On 22nd last month, a suicide bomber killed 22 people and injured dozens at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, in northwest England. '