London Bridge Attackers Wore Fake Bomb Belts to Create 'Maximum Fear'
LONDON (AP) — The London Bridge attackers wore fake suicide
belts to create "maximum fear" as they carried out their rampage,
police said Sunday.
The Metropolitan Police released photographs of the
blood-splattered belts, which were made from plastic water bottles wrapped in
duct tape.
Attackers Khuram Butt, Rachid Redouane and Youssef Zaghba
wore the belts when they mowed down pedestrians on London Bridge then stabbed
people in nearby Borough Market on June 3. They killed eight people before
being shot dead by police.
Police Commander Dean Haydon said the attackers may have
worn the belts because they planned to take hostages, "or it might be that
they saw it as protection from being shot themselves."
Geoff Ho, a Sunday Express journalist who was stabbed and
injured in the attack, described in the newspaper how he tried to stop the
attackers entering a bar packed with people. Ho said "their eyes were full
of rage," and he feared they were about to blow themselves up.
"I couldn't just attack," he wrote. "If I
charged at them, maybe I could take out one or two. But one of those animals
could detonate and kill us all."
Ho was stabbed in the throat by Butt. He credited his
martial arts training with being able to fight off the attack enough to avoid
being killed.
Police are still appealing for witnesses as they piece
together details of the attack.
They say the attackers may have planned even worse carnage.
Butt tried to rent a...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Associated Press Tags: Major Incidents News Source Type: news
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