after he was thrown into the river by the terrorists' van. Mr Thomas was walking south on the bridge with his girlfriend Christine Delcros (also left) when a van ploughed into pedestrians, before three knife-wielding terrorists went on a stabbing spree. Miss Delcros is seriously injured in hospital and has undergone an operation. Detectives appealed for information about him after he was reported missing and searches took place on the River Thames (main image). Today, the Metropolitan Police revealed that they discovered his body near Limehouse - four miles from London Bridge. Also killed in the attack were Spanish HSBC banker Ignacio Echeverria (top right), 39 - whose company hired a private detective when he was reported missing - Australian nanny Sara Zelenak (top left), 21, French chef Sebastien Belanger (centre right), 36, his fellow countryman and friend Alexandre Pigeard (inset), 27, nurse Kirsty Boden (bottom left), 28, from Australia, British business owner James McMullan (centre left), 32, from Hackney and Canadian tourist Christine Archibald (bottom right), 30, died after being hit by the van.
Police searching for a French tourist who
went missing after the London Bridge terror attack have discovered his
body in the River Thames.
Xavier
Thomas, 45, has been named as the eighth victim killed in the atrocity
at the weekend, after he was thrown into the river by the terrorists'
van.
Mr Thomas was walking south on the
bridge with his girlfriend Christine Delcros when a van ploughed into
pedestrians, before three knife-wielding terrorists went on a stabbing
spree.
Miss Delcros is seriously injured in hospital and has undergone an operation.
Detectives
appealed for information about him after he was reported missing and
searches took place on the River Thames. Today, the Metropolitan Police
revealed that they discovered his body near Limehouse - four miles from
London Bridge.
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