Anger mounted in Britain Tuesday over how one of the London attackers slipped through the surveillance net as Prime Minister Theresa May came under pressure two days before an election.

Flags at half-mast, Britain fell silent at 11:00am (1000 GMT) to remember the seven killed and dozens injured on Saturday night -- a mourning ritual now grimly familiar after two previous terror attacks in less than three months.

Police said they carried out a fresh raid in east London overnight hours after naming two of the assailants -- Khuram Shazad Butt, 27, a Pakistan-born Briton, and Rachid Redouane, 30, who described himself as a Moroccan-Libyan dual national.

The Italian media, meanwhile, reported the third attacker as Youssef Zaghba, 22, born in Fez, Morocco, to a Moroccan father and an Italian mother.

Twelve people arrested as part of the investigation have since been released without charge.

The Metropolitan Police said Butt "was known to the police and MI5" but there was no intelligence to suggest the attack was being planned.

Criticism immediately flared about how Butt was able to carry out the attack.

He had notably featured in a Channel 4 TV documentary entitled "The Jihadis Next Door" and, according to the British media, numerous people alarmed by his views had gone to the authorities.

The London attack follows the May 22 suicide bombing at the Manchester Arena by Salman Abedi -- killing 22 people including children -- who was also known to British intelligence services.

"Why didn't they stop TV jihadi?" read The Sun front page, while The Daily Mirror asked: "So how the hell did he slip through?" The conservative Daily Telegraph added: "It is astonishing that people who pose such a danger to life and limb should be able to parade their foul ideology on TV with no consequences."

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson admitted the security services had to provide an answer.

"People are going to look at the front pages today and they are going to say, 'How on earth could we have let this guy or possibly more through the net? What happened? How can he possibly be on a Channel 4 programme and then committing atrocities like this?'," Johnson said on Sky News.

"That is a question that will need to be answered by MI5, by the police, as the investigation goes on," he said.

After a brief pause, election campaigning resumed on Monday, with the agenda dominated by security issues ahead of Thursday's vote. May has vowed to crack down on extremist content online, warning the public: "We cannot and must not pretend that things can continue as they are."

But the premier also faced mounting criticism for her record on security in the six years she served as Britain's interior minister before becoming prime minister last year.

Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn, when asked by ITV television if he backed calls for May to resign, said: "Indeed I would."

Between 2009 and 2016, the number of police officers fell by almost 20,000, or around 14 percent, according to the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank.

Corbyn has pledged to hire thousands of officers for neighbourhood duties, arguing that a grassroots approach would curb crime and radicalisation.

Analysts say the security debate favours Corbyn, who already seems to have been gaining ground ahead of Thursday's vote.

May had called a snap general election on April 18, little more than two years into a five-year parliament, arguing that a commanding majority would give her a stronger hand in the Brexit negotiations with the European Union (EU).

But the campaign focus switched abruptly from Brexit to social issues, to Corbyn's benefit.

According to a poll published Tuesday by the group Survation, May's lead over Labour has shrivelled to just over a single point -- 41.6 percent to 40.4 percent.

In Saturday's attack, three men, wearing fake suicide vests, mowed down pedestrians on London Bridge in a van, before slashing and stabbing revellers in Borough Market, a haunt of late-night bars and restaurants.

Praise has been heaped upon the police for their swift response and bravery. An armed unit killed the trio with 50 shots within eight minutes of the alarm being raised.

First responders were prominent in TV footage of the minute's silence, which showed police, firefighters and ambulance workers lined in mourning at stations and other public places.

Amaq, an outlet affiliated with the so-called IS group, said the attacks were carried out by "a detachment of fighters from Islamic State".

But London Mayor Sadiq Khan, describing himself as "a proud and patriotic British Muslim," slapped down those who invoked Islam to justify acts of murder.

"You do not commit these disgusting acts in my name," he said to applause at a vigil on Monday.
In what it said was an unprecedented move, the Muslim Council of Britain said more than 130 imams and other religious leaders refused to perform the traditional Islamic funeral prayer for the attackers.

"We also urge fellow imams and religious authorities to withdraw such a privilege. This is because such indefensible actions are completely at odds with the lofty teachings of Islam," it said in a statement.

A Canadian and a Frenchman were among the dead and citizens of other nations were among the 48 injured, including Australia, Bulgaria, France, Greece and New Zealand. Eighteen are still in critical condition, according to health authorities.