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Scenes From the London Attack London Attack: What We Know and Don’t Know
(about 3 hours later)
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 latest in what we know, and don’t, about the deadly attack on Wednesday in London, where a man driving a sport utility vehicle crushed panicked pedestrians on Westminster Bridge and then stabbed and killed a police officer outside Parliament.
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. • At least five people were killed, including the attacker and a police officer, and 40 were wounded in an attack in London on Wednesday, the head of London’s Metropolitan Police counterterrorism unit said.
• The driver of a large vehicle mowed down pedestrians on Westminster Bridge, which leads to Parliament, around 2:40 p.m. After the crash, he left the vehicle and approached Parliament, where he fatally stabbed a police officer. The police then fatally shot him.
• Parliament was locked down and a search was conducted for any other assailants in the area. The police said they believed there was only one attacker.
• Three people who were 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 officers had been summoned to the bridge after reports of “a firearms incident,” and witnesses reported gunfire near an office building for lawmakers and their staff members.
• 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. She later denounced “the sick and depraved terrorist attack on the streets of our capital this afternoon.”
• 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.
• The identity and motives of the attacker, although Scotland Yard officials said they believed they knew who he was. No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack.
• The severity of the injuries among the 40 who were wounded in the attack.
Photographs — some of them graphic — show victims lying on the Westminster Bridge on the sidewalk outside the Parliament building.