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Keith Palmer, a Police Constable, Is Among Victims in London Attack Among the Victims of the London Attack: Keith Palmer and Aysha Frade
(about 3 hours later)
He was a father and husband, with 15 years of service in the Metropolitan Police, and he was patrolling Parliament as the attacker barreled down pedestrians on Westminster Bridge, crashed his vehicle into a fence and then emerged with a knife. One was a father, a husband and a police constable with 15 years in London’s Metropolitan Police force. Another was a teacher of Spanish who, according to reports, was walking from her school when she was mowed down by a sport utility vehicle on Westminster Bridge in the heart of the city.
Police Constable Keith Palmer, 48, who died from his stab wounds, was one of three victims killed in the carnage in the heart of London on Wednesday afternoon. The attacker also died. They were among the three people killed on Wednesday by an attacker who plowed through pedestrians on the bridge, drove on and crashed his vehicle into a fence, and then emerged with knives before being fatally shot by the police. The attack threw the seat of Britain’s government into turmoil as ministers were put under lockdown for hours.
“He was someone who left for work today expecting to return home at the end of his shift, and he had every right to expect that would happen,” Mark Rowley, the acting deputy police commissioner, said in a statement. By Thursday morning, officials had not released the name of the assailant. But Prime Minister Theresa May said in a speech at Parliament that the attacker was a British-born man who had been investigated by MI5, Britain’s domestic counterintelligence agency, for possible ties to violent extremism, but had not been “part of the current intelligence picture.”
Tributes poured in for Constable Palmer. Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, said, “Keith Palmer was killed while bravely doing his duty — protecting our city and the heart of our democracy from those who want to destroy our way of life.” Among the 40 people injured were 12 Britons, at least four South Koreans, three French high school students, two Romanians, two Greeks and one citizen each of China, Germany, Ireland and Italy.
“My heart goes out to his family, friends and colleagues,” he added. At a news conference on Thursday morning, Mark Rowley, the acting deputy police commissioner, cited both the police investigation and the need to notify family members as reasons the dead had not been publicly identified.
James Cleverly, a member of Parliament, said on Twitter that he had served in the Royal Artillery with Constable Palmer before he joined the police, calling him “a lovely man, a friend.” But information started to dribble out on some of those injured, many of them visitors from around the world. Here’s what we know so far:
Another person killed in the attack, Aysha Frade, 43, was a British woman with family in Spain, according to the Spanish Foreign Ministry. Ms. Frade, who had two daughters, taught Spanish not too far from Westminster Bridge, according to the Spanish newspaper La Voz de Galicia. ■ Police Constable Keith Palmer, 48, a member of the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command, was patrolling the Parliament when the attacker emerged from his car with knives and fatally stabbed the officer. Tributes poured in for Constable Palmer.
By Thursday morning, officials had not released the names of the assailant or the other person who died in the attack, who was described as a man in his mid-50s. At a news conference on Thursday morning, Commissioner Rowley cited both the police investigation and the need to notify family members before the dead could be publicly identified. “He was someone who left for work today expecting to return home at the end of his shift, and he had every right to expect that would happen,” Commissioner Rowley said in a statement.
But information started to dribble out on some of the dozens who were injured, many of them visitors from around the world. At least three of the injured were, like Constable Palmer, with the police force, and they were hospitalized in stable condition after having been “driven at by a vehicle.” Mayor Sadiq Khan said, “Keith Palmer was killed while bravely doing his duty — protecting our city and the heart of our democracy from those who want to destroy our way of life.”
Of the 29 people sent to hospitals, five were South Koreans who were injured when they were mobbed by a crowd of people fleeing the attack scene, according to the South Korean Foreign Ministry. James Cleverly, a member of Parliament, said on Twitter that he had served in the Royal Artillery with Constable Palmer, calling him “a lovely man, a friend.”
Four of them — three women and a man, all in their 50s and 60s — suffered fractures and other injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening. But the fifth, a 67-year-old woman, suffered a head injury when she was pushed by people fleeing the attack, according to South Korean news reports. She later underwent surgery at a hospital. ■ Aysha Frade, 43, was a British teacher who had family in Spain, according to the Spanish Foreign Ministry. Ms. Frade, who lived in London with her husband and two daughters, taught Spanish not far from Westminster Bridge, according to the Spanish newspaper La Voz de Galicia.
Three of the victims were 10th-grade boys from France who were on the bridge at the time with a group of fellow visiting students. The three attended St.-Joseph high school in Concarneau, Brittany, according to the French Foreign Ministry. Ms. Frade’s mother immigrated to Britain from Betanzos, a Galician town in northwestern Spain. Ms. Frade’s two sisters run the Academia Notting Hill language school in Betanzos and live in a nearby village.
On Thursday, a public gathering was held at the Betanzos town hall with a minute of silence at noon to honor Ms. Frade. Local leaders decreed three days of mourning.
Ms. Frade, 43, was a British citizen, but “her link with our town was always very strong,” José Luis Pariente, a Betanzos town hall official, said in a telephone interview. “She came back here to visit every summer.”
Rachel Borland, the principal of DLD College London, said in a statement on Thursday: ”We are all deeply shocked and saddened at the news that one of the victims yesterday was a member of our staff, Aysha Frade. All our thoughts and our deepest sympathies are with her family. We will be offering every support we can to them as they try to come to terms with their devastating loss.”
■ The third person who died in the attack was not immediately identified, but he was described as a man in his mid-50s.
■ Three of the injured were 10th-grade boys from France who were on the bridge with a group of other visiting students. The three attended St. -Joseph high school in Concarneau, Brittany, according to the French Foreign Ministry.
The mother of one of the injured students told the French media that he had borrowed a friend’s cellphone to text that he was O.K.
“His phone didn’t work, but he must have known I would try to reach him because I immediately got a text message from him. He told me he was O.K., but had the incident happened 20 seconds later, he would’ve been hit by the car,” the mother, Isabelle Calvez, said on French television.
She added that two of the other students had fractured arms and legs, while another one suffered a neck injury.
On Thursday, the French Education Ministry said all the injured students had been treated and their conditions were no longer life-threatening. The other students from St.-Joseph were to be sent back home later Thursday.
Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve of France expressed solidarity with “our British friends” hurt in the attack and offered “full support to the injured French pupils, their families and their classmates.”Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve of France expressed solidarity with “our British friends” hurt in the attack and offered “full support to the injured French pupils, their families and their classmates.”
The government of Australia said a woman who was “an Australian permanent resident” was among those injured, with news outlets there reporting that her foot was run over by the attacker’s vehicle on the bridge. The woman, originally from Germany, lives in South Australia, ABC News in Australia reported. There are more than 4,200 students in London on school trips from France, according to the ministry. They have been instructed by the Education Ministry to follow the British authorities’ security advice meticulously. Most of the other planned school trips to London on Thursday or Friday have been postponed.
■ Five South Koreans were among the 29 people sent to hospitals. They were injured when they were mobbed by a crowd of people fleeing the attack site, according to the South Korean Foreign Ministry.
Four of them — three women and a man in their 50s and 60s — suffered fractures and other injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening. The fifth, however — a 67-year-old woman — suffered a head injury when she was pushed by the fleeing crowd, according to South Korean news reports. She later had surgery at a hospital.
■ The two Romanian victims were identified as Andrei Burnaz, 32, and Andreea Cristea, 31, from the Black Sea port city of Constanta, according to Romanian news agency Mediafax, which quoted an official as saying they were in London to celebrate Mr. Burnaz’s birthday.
■ At least three of those injured after being “driven at by a vehicle” were members of the police force, and were in stable condition.
■ A woman who was “an Australian permanent resident” was among those injured, according to the government of Australia. News outlets there reported that the attacker’s vehicle had run over her foot on the bridge. The woman, originally from Germany, lives in South Australia, according to an Australian news report.
■ Two Greeks went to the hospital for minor injuries, according to Alexis Georgiades, the press counselor of the Greek Embassy in London.