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London Attack: What We Know and Don’t Know Scenes From the London Attack
(about 1 hour later)
• Four people were killed, including an attacker and a police officer, and 20 were wounded in a terror attack in London on Wednesday, the head of London’s Metropolitan Police counterterrorism unit said. An attack outside Parliament shocked central London on Wednesday afternoon as a chaotic burst of mayhem left at least four people dead — including an assailant and police officer — injured 20 and prompted the hasty evacuation of the prime minister.
• The driver of a large vehicle mowed down pedestrians on Westminster Bridge, which leads to Parliament, around 2:40 p.m. After the crash, at least one man left the vehicle and approached Parliament, where he fatally stabbed a police officer. The police then fatally shot the attacker. The driver of a large vehicle mowed down pedestrians on Westminster Bridge, which leads to Parliament, killing two people and injuring others, before crashing into a railing. Some of the injured were teenage schoolchildren from France. Photographs — some of them graphic — show victims lying on the bridge and on the sidewalk outside the Parliament building.
• A woman who was run over on the bridge died, and the Port of London Authority said another woman was pulled from the River Thames with severe injuries.
• Others injured on the bridge included three police officers and several French high school students.
• The police said a “full counterterrorism investigation was underway.”
• Prime Minister Theresa May was taken from the scene in a silver Jaguar as the gunfire erupted.
• One of the busiest sections of London was cordoned off and evacuated, the Westminster station of London’s subway system was closed, and additional police officers have been stationed across the capital.
• If there was more than one assailant involved in the attack, or the identity of the attacker or attackers.
• How many people were killed and wounded in the attack, although the police said that officers were among the casualties and the London Ambulance Service said it had treated 10 people on the bridge.
Photographs — some of them graphic — show victims lying on the Westminster Bridge on the sidewalk outside the Parliament building. In a briefing, a spokesman for Scotland Yard said there had been, “a number of casualties, including police officers.”