In London attacker's area, neighbours remember family man

Neighbours of one of the suspected assailants in the London stabbings remembered him as a friendly family man and gym aficionado nicknamed "Abz", seen with the van used in the attack.
Located in the multi-ethnic area of Barking, in east London, the flat where British media reported the man lived was raided by police yesterday and an AFP photographer saw women in headscarves being taken out -- their faces covered.
"We saw him many, many times around here," said Salahudeen, a 40-year-old driving instructor, who lives near the ground-floor flat in a modern-looking apartment block in the east London suburb.

"He used to be friendly but suddenly... He wasn't acting as normal. He wasn't aggressive; he used to chat but lately he was just 'hi' and 'bye'," he told AFP.
Salahudeen said the man had two children -- a boy and a baby girl.
"One is around three years old and the girl was just born two weeks ago," he said, adding that he would see him carrying the boy on his shoulders and playing football in the park.
Police today named two of the three men behind the terror attack in London as Khuram Butt and Rachid Redouane, though it was unclear whether either of these was 'Abz".

Butt was 27 and a British citizen born in Pakistan, while Redouane was 30 and "claimed to be Moroccan and Libyan", national counter-terrorism police chief Mark Rowley said in a statement.