At least two people were killed and several injured in a suspected terror attack after a man stabbed them to death on an iconic London bridge on Friday.

None of the victims have been named yet, according to police.

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Identified as 28-year-old, Usman Khan was convicted in 2012. “He was released from prison in December 2018 on licence and clearly, a key line of enquiry now is to establish how he came to carry out this attack,” the BBC quoted London Metropolitan Police Assitant Commissioner Neil Basu as saying.

The attack came a few hours before a number of people were wounded in a stabbing in one of the main shopping streets in the centre of the Dutch city of The Hague.

Police said they were called at 1:58 pm (1358 GMT) and confronted the man by 2:03 pm, shooting him dead.

The two attacks happened on so-called “Black Friday”, one of the busiest shopping days of the year in the run-up to Christmas, bringing more shoppers onto the streets.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan praised those onlookers who risked their own safety to try to disarm the suspect before the police arrived.

The Times reported that Khan’s release from prison last year came after he agreed to wear an electronic tag and have his movements monitored.

The incident evoked memories of the 2017 terror attack on the same bridge when a van was deliberately driven ploughing the pedestrians before its three occupants ran to the nearby Borough Market area and began stabbing people in and around restaurants and pubs, leaving eight people dead and 48 injured.

The incident in London came less than two weeks before a general election at which Prime Minister Boris Johnson hopes to win a majority to enable him to take Britain out of the European Union.

(With inputs from agency)