LONDON—A doctor says a woman has died and about a dozen people are hurt, some with “catastrophic” injuries, after a vehicle apparently hit pedestrians on Westminster Bridge, near the U.K. Parliament.Colleen Anderson of St Thomas’ Hospital says a female pedestrian has died.“There were people across the bridge,” Anderson said. “There were some with minor injuries, some catastrophic. Some had injuries they could walk away from or who have life-changing injuries.”She said there might be a dozen injured in all.The Parliament is 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 ca ...
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