Hospitals across central London are treating victims of the London Bridge terror attack, which killed seven people and injured 48.
There are currently 36 people being treated in five hospitals, with 21 in a critical condition, NHS England said.
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Details are emerging about those caught up in the attack. None of those killed have been named so far.
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he was "heartbroken" that a Canadian national had been among those killed, but did not give further details.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has said that a Frenchman was also killed, with another seven French nationals injured. Four are in a critical condition. One French national is missing.
The injured
Elizabeth O'Neill told the BBC how her son, Daniel, who is 23, received a seven-inch cut from his belly to his back outside a bar near Borough Market. He is recovering in hospital.
"He had just stepped outside the bar for a second and a man ran up to him and said 'this is for my family, this is for Islam' and put a knife in him," she said.
"I'm still in shock. I can't quite believe it's happened."
Four police officers were hurt, three from the Metropolitan Police and one from British Transport Police (BTP).
The officer from the BTP is "seriously unwell", the organisation said, but was able to talk about how he fought the attackers armed only with a baton.
One of the Met officers - a rugby player who was off duty at the time - was stabbed after tackling one of the three attackers. He is in a critical condition.
A member of the public is recovering in hospital after being accidentally shot by police, the Met's Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said.
Dr Malik Ramadhan, a consultant at the Royal London hospital, told the Guardian: "There's a patient in this hospital who's been shot in the head; a man. He's absolutely not dying. Our expectation is that he will make a full recovery."
It is not yet clear if the gunshot victim he referred to is connected to the accidental police shooting.
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Journalist Geoff Ho, the business editor of the Sunday Express, was injured while confronting the attackers.
"Don't know whether it was stupid or noble to jump in and break up the fight outside the Southwark Tavern, but two a***s trying to do over the lone bouncer on the door isn't happening on my watch," Mr Ho said in a Facebook post written from hospital.
The newspaper called him a "a martial arts expert specialising in Kung Fu and kickboxing", and published video footage of Mr Ho being calmly led to an ambulance by a police officer, holding his neck.
The paper's editor, Martin Townsend, described Mr Ho as a "fine and decent man" and said he was "hoping and praying for a speedy recovery".
Two Australians were "directly affected" by the attacks, the country's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said.
New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it was providing consular assistance to the family of one of its citizens, Oliver Dowling.
One Spanish citizen was injured, the embassy said, but is not in a life-threatening condition.
Germany's interior ministry has confirmed that two German nationals were also injured, one seriously.
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