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RSS FeedsLIVE: Officer stabbed at U.K. Parliament, threat level listed as severe
(The Star Fashion & Style)

 
 

22 march 2017 17:40:02

 
LIVE: Officer stabbed at U.K. Parliament, threat level listed as severe
(The Star Fashion & Style)
 


LONDON—Britain’s Parliament was locked down Wednesday after an attacker stabbed an officer and was then shot by police, and witnesses said a vehicle struck several people on the nearby Westminster Bridge. London police said they were treating the attack as a “terrorist incident until we know otherwise.”The threat level for international terrorism in the U.K. was listed at severe. The city was also on alert for the Thursday funeral of Martin McGuinness, former IRA commander.In a reconstruction of the timeline, the BBC said it appeared that a vehicle came off the bridge, drove into the fence outside Parliament and a man then ran into the main building where it was reported he wielded a knife, attacked a police officer and was shot.Images aired by Sky News and the BBC showed people on the bridge and on the sidewalk near Parliament laying down on the ground and being treated by medical staff. At least 10 people were injured according to eyewitness reports while video footage showed a crashed car nearby.Witness Rick Longley told the Press Association that he saw a man stab a policeman outside Britain’s Parliament.“We were just walking up to the station and there was a loud bang and a guy, someone, crashed a car and took some pedestrians out,” he said.“They were just laying there and then the whole crowd just surged around the corner by the gates just opposite Big Ben.“A guy came past my right shoulder with a big knife and just started plunging it into the policeman.“I have never seen anything like that. I just can’t believe what I just saw.”“It looked like they were running for their lives,” he said.The former Polish foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski posted a video on Twitter that showed people lying injured on the bridge (see video above).Sikorski, a senior fellow at Harvard Centre for European Studies, says he saw at least five people lying on the ground after being & ...


 
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