GRAPHIC WARNING - Video has emerged that shows police gunning down the three terrorists that committed the London Bridge atrocity
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This is the heart-stopping moment the London Bridge terrorists lunged to stab a drinker before armed police shot them dead in a hail of 50 bullets.
Terrifying CCTV shows the three fanatics attacking a man walking by the entrance of Borough Market opposite the entrance of the Wheatsheaf pub as a police car arrived with its sirens blaring.
The terrorists plunge their knives into the victim, who falls onto the floor as a police car approaches.
Officers with guns poured out and mowed down the attackers in a hail of gunfire, as the victim staggered to his feet and ran away, according to Daily Mail.
The footage emerged as the death toll from the attack reached eight, following the discovery of a body near Limehouse, downstream from London Bridge.
The footage emerged as the death toll from the attack reached eight, after the discovery of a body near Limehouse, downstream from London Bridge.
Xavier Thomas, 45, is thought to have been knocked into the water when he was struck by the van driven by the fanatics on Saturday night.
Scotland Yard yesterday announced that its marine unit had recovered a body near Limehouse, 6km downstream of London Bridge, at 7.44pm on Tuesday.
The body has yet to be fmally identified.
He was last seen walking south across the bridge with his girlfriend Christine Delcros during a weekend visit to London from France.
The van struck Delcros and she continues to be treated for serious injuries in hospital. She is understood to be in a stable condition.
Police initially said the terrorists had claimed seven victims. But family members reported Thomas missing and police started searching the Thames.
Xavier Thomas, 45, died after he was thrown into the River Thames by the terrorists' van. He was with his girlfriend, Christine Delcros (pictured), when the attack happened. Photo / Facebook
The other victims of the attack have been named as James McMullan, 32, from Hackney in London, Canadian Christine Archibald, 30, Spanish banker Ignacio Echeverria, 39, Australian nurse Kirsty Boden, 28, Australian au pair Sara Zelenak, 21, French chef Sebastien Belanger, 36, and French waiter Alexandre Pigeard, 27.
Zelenak's family last night said they were "deeply saddened at the tragic loss of our beautiful daughter and sister".
It comes as police and security forces continue to face questions about whether opportunities to prevent the atrocity were missed.
MailOnline said there were several opportunities to stop more than one of the terrorists getting into Britain in the first place, but authorities failed to intervene.
Mastermind Khuram Butt was deemed a "low priority" despite an aborted attempt to wage holy war in Syria, links to several notorious extremists and an appearance on national TV where he unfurled an Isis-style flag in public.
Friends and worried parents say they reported him to the anti-terror hotline at least three times for extremist behaviour and trying to radicalise children.
The youngest attacker, Youssef Zaghba, 22, was waved through at Stansted Airport in January despite Italian police flagging him as a potential terrorist on a Europe-wide warning system designed to alert passport control.
His mother even asked police in his native Italy to keep him in custody after he tried to fly to Syria and told officers: "I'm going to be a terrorist."
Failed asylum seeker Rachid Redouane, 30, was not deported after 10 years in the UK despite being caught with a fake passport and living illegally under a false name.
He then married a British woman in Ireland and used it as a "backdoor" to return to the UK and carry out the devastating attack on Saturday, killing eight and maiming 48 by ramming crowds with a rented van and slashing people with knives.
