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5 dead in vehicle, knife attack at British Parliament parliament attack

Continued from Front Bali terror attack in 2002, surrounded by a scattering sounded like a warning, DANICA KIRKA
performed first aid on the of postcards. he ignored it and they shot JILL LAWLESS
U.S. President Donald wounded police officer, Police said one injured two or three times and he Associated Press
Trump was among world who later died. About 10 woman was pulled from fell,” Letts told the BBC. LONDON (AP) — British law-
leaders offering condo- yards away lay the assail- the river. The attacker fell to the makers were the first to tell
lences, and in Paris, the ant. The car crashed into rail- cobbles just yards from the the nation, and the world,
lights of the Eiffel Tower “I tried to stem the flow of ings on the north side of entrance to 1,000-year-old about a deadly terror at-
were to be dimmed in soli- blood and give mouth to the bridge, less than 200 Westminster Hall, the oldest tack Wednesday, with
darity with London. mouth while waiting for yards (meters) from the part of the parliamentary members of Parliament
complex, busy with visitors tweeting about events un-
and school groups. Beyond folding on their doorstep
that, a corridor leads to the while huddling inside the
building’s Central Lobby, Palace of Westminster af-
flanked by House of Com- ter armed police locked
mons and House of Lords down the area.
chambers. Several took to Twitter as
The prime minister was the incident unraveled.
among lawmakers near Chris Philp MP at 3:51 p.m.
the Commons at the time “Parliament just been
of the attack, and was locked down following
quickly ushered away by shooting incident in new
security officers and driven palace yard. Not sure what
back to Downing Street. happened”
To get that far, the attacker Grant Shapps MP at
would have had to evade 4:12p.m.
the armed officers who “Police response instant.
patrol the Parliament com- Heard commotion, looked
plex in pairs, as well as Par- round. Police weapons
liament’s own security staff, drawn, 4 shots, police or-
who don’t carry guns. dered us to hit ground &
The attack unfolded near get back, get back.”
some of the city’s most fa- Anna Soubry MP at 4:37
mous tourist sites, including p.m.
the London Eye, a large “Colleagues taken out of
Two policemen stand guard at a cordoned off area on the way to the Houses of Parliament in
central London, Wednesday, March 22, 2017. A knife-wielding man went on a deadly rampage in Ferris wheel with pods that the library at gun point by
the heart of Britain’s seat of power Wednesday, plowing a car into pedestrians on London’s West- overlook the capital. It was counter terrorist armed po-
minster Bridge before stabbing a police officer to death inside the gates of Parliament. halted after the attack, lice officers
(AP Photo/ Matt Dunham) stranding visitors in the “Armed officers ordered
pods, with an aerial view of myself and Security Minis-
London has been a target the medics to arrive but I entrance to Parliament. As the attack scene. ter (Ben Wallace) into lob-
for terrorism many times think he had lost too much people scattered in panic, London Ambulance Ser- by at gun point. Terrifying”
over past decades. Just blood,” Ellwood said. “He witnesses saw a man hold- vice said medics treated Nicky Morgan MP at 4:52
this weekend, hundreds of had multiple wounds, un- ing a knife run toward the 12 people for serious injuries p.m.
armed police took part in der the arm and in the building. and eight who were less se- “The division bell had just
an exercise simulating a back.” “The whole crowd just riously hurt. gone and MPs were mak-
“marauding” terrorist at- The attack began early surged around the corner Dr. Colleen Anderson of St. ing their way to the House
tack on the River Thames. Wednesday afternoon by the gates just opposite Thomas’ Hospital said some of Commons chamber....
Wednesday was the an- as a driver in a gray SUV Big Ben,” said witness Rick of the wounded had “cat- “It takes a moment to re-
niversary of suicide bomb- slammed into pedestrians Longley. “A guy came past astrophic” injuries. alise that is actually gunfire
ings in the Brussels airport on the bridge linking Parlia- my right shoulder with a big The French Foreign Ministry and at that point people
and subway that killed 32 ment to the south bank of knife and just started plung- said that three students on were yelling get down, get
people last year, and the the River Thames. ing it into the policeman. a school trip from Saint-Jo- back.
latest events echoed re- Former Polish foreign min- I have never seen anything seph in the Brittany town of “They pushed us all back
cent vehicle attacks in Ber- ister Radek Sikorski was in like that. I just can’t believe Concarneau were among to the new building.
lin and Nice, France. a car crossing the bridge what I just saw.” the injured. “We have at the back of
In the House of Commons, when he heard “something The attacker managed to Two Romanians were also our mind all the time that
legislators were holding a like a car hitting metal get past a gate into Parlia- among the injured, the something terrible can
series of votes on pensions sheet” and then saw peo- ment’s fenced-in New Pal- country’s Foreign Ministry happen. The first thing is, is
when deputy Speaker ple lying on the pavement. ace Yard, a cobbled court- said. that actually gunfire? Have
Lindsay Hoyle announced “I saw one person who yard in the shadow of the U.S. President Donald you misheard?
that the sitting was being gave no signs of life. One Big Ben clock tower. Trump spoke with May by “But the reaction of the of-
suspended and told law- man was bleeding from Daily Mail journalist Quentin telephone and applauded ficers around made it very
makers not to leave. his head. I saw five people Letts said a man in black “the quick response of Brit- clear this is a very serious
Parliament was locked who were at least seriously attacked the police offi- ish police and first respond- situation.”
down for several hours, injured,” Sikorski told Po- cer before being shot two ers,” spokesman Sean Spic- George Foreman MP at
and the adjoining West- land’s TVN24. or three times as he tried to er said. 4:55 p.m.
minster subway station was Ambulances arrived within storm into the building. London has often been the “Incredibly brave @met-
shuttered. minutes to treat people “As this attacker was run- target of terrorist attacks, policeuk anti-terror offi-
Conservative lawmaker who lay scattered along ning towards the entrance from IRA campaigns in the cers co-ordinating a lock-
Tobias Ellwood, whose the length of the bridge. two plain-clothed guys with 1970s and 80s to more re- down & evacuation after
brother was killed in the One bloodied woman lay guns shouted at him what cent Islamist plots.q #ParliamentAttack”q