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Death Toll of UK Parliament ‘Terrorist Incident’ Rises to Four | ASHARQ AL-AWSAT English Archive 2005 -2017
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At least four have been reportedly killed in a Wednesday attack near the British parliament, local police said.Traffic had come to a halt as emergency services worked alongside the Houses of Parliament on Westminster Bridge during the incident.

It was early on reported that an assailant stabbed a policeman and was shot by police just outside Britain’s parliament building in London on Wednesday in what police branded as a “terrorist incident”.

Amid confusing scenes, it appeared the incident may have unfolded in several locations, including on the nearby Westminster bridge where eyewitnesses said a car had crashed into pedestrians.

“Officers – including firearms officers – remain on the scene and we are treating this as a terrorist incident until we know otherwise,” London’s Metropolitan Police said in a
statement.

Reuters reporters inside the parliament building heard loud bangs and shortly afterwards saw two people lying on the ground in a courtyard just outside, within the perimeter of the parliamentary estate.

A Reuters photographer said he saw at least a dozen people injured on Westminster Bridge, next to parliament.

His photographs showed people lying on the ground, some of them bleeding heavily and one apparently under a bus.

“I just saw a car go out of control, and just go into pedestrians on the bridge,” a woman who gave her name as Bernadette told Sky News. She was on a tour bus on the bridge at the time.

“As we were going across the bridge, we saw people lying on the floor, they were obviously injured. I saw about 10 people maybe. And then the emergency services started to arrive. Everyone was just running everywhere.”