A minute's silence has been held throughout the country on Tuesday morning in memory of those who lost their lives in the London Bridge terror attack.

The nation fell silent at 11am as a mark of respect for the seven victims of Saturday night's atrocity.

The silent tribute was observed at dedicated areas throughout Scotland's main cities including at Glasgow Central, Edinburgh Waverley, Dundee City Square and in Aberdeen, where First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was in attendance.

It came after terrorists in a van ploughed into pedestrians on London Bridge before getting out and stabbing passers-by on Saturday night.

As well as the seven dead, another 48 people were injured in the attack with 36 still in hospital and as many as 18 described as being in a critical condition.

Canadian 30-year-old Christine Archibald and Londoner James McMullan, 32, are the first victims killed in Saturday night's attack to be named.

An unnamed French national has also been confirmed among the dead with two of their fellow countrymen still missing.

Thousands attended a minute's silence on Monday night at a vigil next to Tower Bridge, a short walk away from the scene of the weekend attack.

Two of the three terrorists, who were all shot dead by armed police responding to the incident, have been named as Rachid Redouane and Khuram Butt with the third perpetrator still to be identified.

Officials have also confirmed that 27-year-old Butt, who was born in Pakistan but brought up in London, was previously known to authorities and had been investigated by police in 2015.

Saturday night's attack was the third terrorist incident on British soil in as many months after previous attacks on Westminster and last week's suicide bombing at Manchester's MEN arena, which killed 22 people including 14-year-old Eilidh MacLeod from Barra in the Western Isles.

A total of 34 people have lost their lives in the three recent attacks.