British police were searching two homes on Monday after shooting dead an extremist who knifed two people in London in an attack claimed by the ISIL militant group, as the government vowed a review of the system for the early release of convicted terrorists.

Sudesh Amman, 20, who was wearing a fake suicide vest, was shot on a busy shopping street in south London on Sunday.

ISIL’s propaganda arm called Amman “an ISIL fighter and he carried out the attack in response to a call to target nationals” of countries belonging to the global coalition fighting it.

Amman was recently freed early from prison after serving part of his sentence for a string of extremist-related terror offences — namely the possession and distribution of terrorist documents.

Source: AFP