Multiple Casualties Reported After UK Parliament Attack

A police officer was stabbed outside the Houses of Parliament in the British capital, the Associated Press reports.

Armed police and other emergency services are on the scene, while the roads around parliament have been cleared of people and traffic.

Another Palestinian drove his truck into a group of Israeli soldiers in Jerusalem in January this year, killing four of them in an attack that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said was likely to have been inspired by Islamic State.

MP Tobias Ellwood – whose brother was killed in the Bali bombings – gave mouth-to-mouth to dying police officer PC Keith Palmer.

A photographer saw at least a dozen people injured on the bridge.

She said: “One of the officers was trying to him”.

Local officials in the western region of Brittany, where the French students are from, said two of them were in serious condition.

“This person appears to have chosen relatively rudimentary weapons, and there was no explosion as far as we can tell”.

“We are satisfied at this stage that it looks like there was only on attacker”, said Metropolitan Police counterterrorism chief Mark Rowley.

Additional armed security have been stationed at the PM’s London home on Downing Street, reported CNN worldwide editor Nick Robertson on scene for CNN. She was seen being ushered into a vehicle to be evacuated.

The suspect is believed to be a “middle aged Asian male”.

An air ambulance landed in Parliament Square and a regular ambulance came in through the front gates as medics rushed to help the injured people.

A spokesman said: “Police are asking people to avoid the following areas: Parliament Square; Whitehall; Westminster Bridge; Lambeth Bridge; Victoria Street up to the junction with Broadway and the Victoria Embankment up to Embankment tube”. The U.K. also has more closed-circuit television (CCTV) coverage than most advanced nations, with almost 5.9 million cameras now keeping a close watch over city streets and popular locations.

The Scottish parliament in Holyrood has been suspended.

The London Eye was also placed on lockdown with many riders still in the inside its cabs.

People run from the scene outside the Houses of Parliament. The attraction remains closed.

Meanwhile, the White House said US President Donald Trump spoke to Mrs May to “offer his condolences on today’s terror attack in London and his praise for the effective response of security forces and first responders”.

The Houses of Parliament and nearby buildings went into lockdown while Prime Minister Theresa May was ushered back to Downing Street following the incident that occurred around 2.40 p.m. A woman. She was under the wheel of a bus. She also treated a police officer in his 30s with a head injury.

Mr Kingston, a lawyer specialising in maritime safety and the director of the Irish Cultural Centre in London, said there was a “subdued” atmosphere in the city in the aftermath of the attack.

The motive of the attacker.