A man arrested on suspicion of stabbing three people to death in a terror attack at a park in Reading had come from Libya and was known to MI5.
Khairi Saadallah, who is 25, had come to the attention of the security service last year but was not considered to be an “immediate risk”.
The attack took place at Forbury Gardens in the centre of Reading on Saturday evening. The suspect was arrested at the scene. Later police carried out a raid at a block of flats in the town.
One of those who died has been named as James Furlong, a 36-year-old teacher. His family has described him as a wonderful, beautiful and intelligent man.
Mishal Husain presents BBC News at Ten reporting from Home Affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford and Home Editor Mark Easton.
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In This Story: Libya
Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad to the south, Niger to the southwest, Algeria to the west, and Tunisia to the northwest.
The sovereign state is made of three historical regions: Tripolitania, Fezzan and Cyrenaica. The largest city and capital, Tripoli, is located in western Libya and contains over three million of Libya’s seven million people. The second-largest city is Benghazi, which is located in eastern Libya.
Libya became independent as a kingdom in 1951. A military coup in 1969 overthrew King Idris I. Parts of Libya are currently split between rival Tobruk and Tripoli-based governments, as well as various tribal and Islamist militias.
Libya is a member of the United Nations (since 1955), the Non-Aligned Movement, the Arab League, the OIC and OPEC. The country’s official religion is Islam, with 96.6% of the Libyan population being Sunni Muslims.
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