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At least four people are dead, according to Metropolitan Police.
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• Reports of shots fired outside London’s Houses of Parliament and Palace of Westminster.
• Witnesses reported seeing a vehicle mow down several people on Westminster Bridge.
• An assailant then ran inside Parliament square, attacking a police officer with a knife. The attacker was shot by police.
• The assailant, a police officer and two others died.

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LONDON ― An armed assailant attacked the British Parliament on Wednesday, mowing down several people on London’s crowded Westminster Bridge before storming inside the Parliament building. At least four were killed in the attack, including a police officer and the attacker.

Police said they are investigating the situation as a terrorist incident and placed the area on lockdown. It is unclear whether the assailant had accomplices.

“Although we remain open to the motive, a full counter terrorism investigation is already under way,” the Metropolitan Police said in a statement.

Bystanders said the suspect drove erratically on the nearby Westminster Bridge, hitting bystanders before driving onto the busy sidewalk in front of the gates of Parliament. Witnesses said the assailant then left the car, rushed through the gates and began attacking police officers with a knife.

One officer was injured before the suspect was taken down. The officer has died, according to the BBC and The Guardian.

Mark Rowley, Metropolitan Police assistant commissioner, said four people are dead, including the assailant and one police officer, and at least 20 others injured. The injured include three police officers who were hit by a car while on their way back from a commendation ceremony.

Note: This article contains graphic photos that may be upsetting to some readers.


The London Ambulance Service said it had treated at least 10 people on Westminster Bridge. A doctor at St. Thomas’ Hospital shortly after the incident described the injuries as “catastrophic,” according to the Press Association. French authorities confirmed three French students were among the injured.

Paramedics treated a woman who was pulled from the River Thames following the incident on the Westminster bridge. She was undergoing very urgent medical treatment, the Port of London Authority said.

“I was just outside Westminster tube station when I heard an almighty crash and a vehicle that looked like a 4x4 had crashed into railings. There was smoke coming from underneath the bonnet. I saw a pedestrian or a cyclist who had clearly been hit,” Alan Parry from Sky Sports News said. “The driver sprinted away from the scene. That was followed by four what sounded very much like gunshots. Then all of a sudden all hell was let loose and police descended everywhere. The whole area was locked down.

Wednesday’s incident targeted the area of London where business, government and tourist activity all converge. While probably best known for the “Big Ben” clocktower that’s part of the Palace of Westminster, visitors are also able to regularly tour the Houses of Parliament. Even disruptions that may appear minor, like closed roads and tube stations, can bring this part of the city to a relative standstill.


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People rushed to treat the injured after the attack on Westminster Bridge.
What appeared to be the prime minister’s official vehicle was seen speeding away from the area just after the incident, Sky News reported. An air ambulance landed in Parliament square just before 3 p.m. local time, aerial video footage showed.

Parliament went on lockdown, with hundreds of politicians and reporters huddled inside.


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Injured people are assisted after an incident on Westminster Bridge in London.
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The White House said U.S. President Donald Trump has been briefed on the situation.

Wednesday’s attack comes one year after suicide bombers killed 32 in Brussels. Belgium’s Prime Minister Charles Michel expressed his condolences on Twitter.


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Die Welt wrote:Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on Europe to abandon its previous conduct against its country, and linked it to a warning.

"If you continue to behave like that, not a single European, not a single Westerner will be able to safely step outside their home anytime in the world tomorrow," he said on Wednesday at an event for journalists in Ankara. "Turkey is calling on Europe to respect human rights and democracy."

The President did not say how his warning was to be understood concretely. Perhaps he was referring to the treatment that he thinks Muslims and Turks in Europe are suffering from.
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Violent youth with mental issues and/or drug problem and/or workplace violence and/or relationship with one of the victims.

Definitely not terrorism, and no Islamic ideology involved, they can usually tell you as much two minutes after having shot him.
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What to do with Turkey, they are becoming a liability for NATO and Europe at this point. I'm concerned that this might escalate over the next few years to something really nasty. :hmm:

This seems as much political as anything else though it can be hard to separate that from religion when the country involved is sliding pretty quickly towards outright theocracy.
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Frollein wrote:Violent youth with mental issues and/or drug problem and/or workplace violence and/or relationship with one of the victims.

Definitely not terrorism, and no Islamic ideology involved, they can usually tell you as much two minutes after having shot him.


Yes, can't stick to the facts since under the weight or influence of extreme political leftism of Europe everything is racist and a possible hate crime.

It's also no surprise that a lot of these so called moderate European socialist parties mostly comprise of Marxists. Moderate socialism in name only and called Marxist influenced or inspired anywhere else. There really is no moderate socialists or even democrats for that matter politically in the west as they have been all taken over (hijacked) by a bunch of Marxist internationalists. You'll notice that they're all about international socialism now.
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mikema63 wrote:What to do with Turkey, they are becoming a liability for NATO and Europe at this point. I'm concerned that this might escalate over the next few years to something really nasty. :hmm:

This seems as much political as anything else though it can be hard to separate that from religion when the country involved is sliding pretty quickly towards outright theocracy.


I read that Yigit Bulut, Erdogan's advisor, dreams of an alliance with Russia, so yeah, NATO should come to a conclusion about Turkey before they get a nasty surprise.
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@Frollein it would be a bloody conflict on Europe's doorstep. With Russian support it would endanger European population centers.

I prefer my wars overwhelmingly one sided and a good distance away.

@noir your commitment to your narrative is counter productive. It plays directly into the recruitment narrative of the groups we actually have intermittent conflict with.
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noir wrote:What war? We are living in a perpetual war called, jihad.


The one they can't sweep under the rug as "workplace violence/drugs."

it would be a bloody conflict on Europe's doorstep. With Russian support it would endanger European population centers.


The encroaching Islamification does the same - at least with a war, it would be out in the open and I wouldn't have to put up with fucking liberals calling me a neonazi for pointing out the toxic and antidemocratic nature of Islam.

I prefer my wars overwhelmingly one sided and a good distance away.


course you do, you're American. That's how you like all your wars.
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