The number of dead is up to four including one policeman.
ZitatLONDON, March 22 (Reuters) - At least a dozen people were injured and two reported dead in London on Wednesday after a car crashed into pedestrians near the British parliament and an assailant stabbed a policeman in what police called a terrorist incident.
The knifeman was then shot by police in the shadow of Big Ben, where he had tried to force his way into a courtyard just outside the Houses of Parliament.
The incident appeared to have unfolded in several locations, including on nearby Westminster Bridge where eyewitnesses said a car had crashed into pedestrians.
Reuters reporters inside parliament heard loud bangs and shortly afterwards saw two people lying on the ground in a courtyard just outside.
A Reuters photographer said he saw at least a dozen people injured on the bridge. His photographs showed people lying on the ground, some of them bleeding heavily and one under a bus.
Sky News reported two people had died, but the total number of casualties was unclear. The London Ambulance Service said it had treated at least 10 people on the bridge.
The incident took place on the first anniversary of attacks by Islamist militants that killed 32 people in Brussels.
"Officers - including firearms officers - remain on the scene and we are treating this as a terrorist incident until we know otherwise," police said in a statement.
Will this wake the Brits up as to the dangers they have self-created? Will it wake up other Europeans? Us? Or will we hear the usual drivel about how we cannot indict a whole people for the acts of a few? We must not react too hastily? etc., etc.?
There is no possible way to guard against such an attack beyond keeping Muzzies out of the country.
OUR dead and 20 injured - including French students and Korean tourists - as terrorist mows down people on Westminster Bridge before being shot dead seconds after murdering a police officer inside Parliament gates
Four-wheel drive was driven over Westminster Bridge knocking down pedestrians this afternoon
Victims were said to have been left scattered in the road, with one woman knocked into the River Thames
Emergency services treated at least 20 injured people on the bridge, with one woman dead under a bus
'Asian' knifeman got into the grounds of Parliament where he stabbed and killed a police officer
The 'middle-aged' attacker was then shot by armed officers and died after being taken to hospital
Police believe attacker to be a 'lone wolf' as confirmed by Prime Minister Theresa May tonight
Parliament was suspended and the Prime Minister was rushed from the scene in her official car
By Richard Spillett and Tim Sculthorpe and Martin Robinson and Alexander Robertson and Mark Duell for Published: 10:43 EDT, 22 March 2017 | Updated: 17:38 EDT, 22 March 2017
Three people and a terrorist are dead after an attacker brought carnage to central London today, mowing down pedestrians on Westminster Bridge and hacking at police with knives in the grounds of the Houses of Parliament.
Around 20 people were hit when a 4x4 drove along the pavement on the crowded bridge, knocking down and seriously injuring pedestrians before crashing into a fence below Big Ben.
The killer, described by witnesses as 'middle-aged and Asian', then managed to break into the grounds of Parliament, where he fatally stabbed a police officer with two knives.
The policeman died at the scene. The attacker - who was shot at least twice by armed officers guarding the building - died after he was taken to hospital.
Prime Minister Theresa May tonight vowed Britain would 'never give in to terror' and 'defeat hate and evil' after she blasted the 'sick and depraved' attack in Westminster.
She added the 'forces of evil would never drive Britain apart' and praised police and security staff who 'ran towards danger even as they encouraged others to move away'.
It is currently believed he was the only 'lone wolf' attacker. Around 20 pedestrians and three other police officers were injured.
The usual pablum about a 'lone wolf' attack. Put a bunch of lone wolves together and you get a pack. I'm cutre the lone wolf myth is of great solace to those who were injured and the families of those who were killed.
Illegitimi non Carborundum
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.- Orwell