Shooting Outside UK Parliament After Vehicle "Mows Down" Several On Westminster Bridge; Assailant Shot

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Shooting Outside UK Parliament After Vehicle "Mows Down" Several On Westminster Bridge; Assailant Shot


by Tyler Durden
Mar 22, 2017 10:53 AM

Summary of the rapidly changing situation:

• An assailant was shot outside the British parliament by armed police, the leader of the House of Commons said on Wednesday after loud bangs were heard and a Reuters photographer saw at least a dozen injured people on a nearby bridge.
  
• The UK Commons leader adds that a man policeman was apparently stabbed and that the assailant has been shot.
  
• A parliamentary official earlier said two people had been shot outside parliament and the building was in lockdown. The House of Commons session was suspended and members of parliament who were in the chamber were told to remain there.
  
• BBC reports that a vehicle mowed down several people on Westminster bridge, and shows footage of severeal people lying injured on Westminster bridge.
  
• Police said they had been called to an incident at Westminster Bridge, officers were on the scene and it was being treated as a firearms incident.
  
• A Reuters reporter inside the building said medical staff were treating two people inside the gates of the parliamentary estate.
  
• Nearby Westminster underground train station was closed at the request of police.
  
• Photographs by Reuters staffer Toby Melville showed two people lying on Westminster Bridge, bleeding heavily.