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London terrorist attack: Five dead as car rams crowd at Parliament and Westminster Bridge, Daily Starlet

LONDON TERROR ATTACK: Five dead as knifeman rams car into crowd at Parliament

A MACHETE-WIELDING attacker and four others – including a police officer – have died after a car ploughed into a group of people outside Parliament in central London.

A 4×4 car mounted the pavement and ploughed into pedestrians crossing the busy Westminster Bridge beside London’s Big Ben.

The attacker then stabbed a policeman – who later died – before he was shot by armed officers.

Foreign Minister Tobias Ellwood heroically attempted to save the officer’s life by administering CPR.

Terror in the HEART of London: the Westminster attack as it happened

Parliament was placed on lockdown with MPs locked inwards while armed police carrying shields protected the building.

Reports suggest that forty people have been injured with five people – including the attacker – confirmed dead.

Scotland Yard have made it clear that the attack – which occured at around Two.45pm – is being treated as a “terrorist incident” and they believe the attacker was “inspired by international terrorism”.

The policeman has been named as PC Keith Palmer, a hubby, father and 15-year veteran of the Met Police who was unarmed when he was attacked.

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Pictures emerged of numerous injured on Westminster Bridge with horror movie footage demonstrating hundreds running away at the time of the attack.

The car pinned someone against the wall when it crashed, witnesses reported.

Stunned witnesses reported hearing a noisy bang followed by screaming and shooting.

SHOCK: Witnesses describe the car crashing into pedestrians

ATTACK: A car has driven into a crowd of people outside Parliament

Quentin Letts said: “I witnessed a thick-set man in black clothes come through the gates into Fresh Palace Yard, just below Big Ben.

“He had something in his palm, it looked like a stick of some sort, and he was challenged by a duo of policemen in yellow jackets.

“And one of the yellow-jacketed policemen fell down and we could see the man in black moving his arm in a way that suggested he was stabbing or striking the yellow-jacketed policeman.”

A Downing Street source declined to say where Prime Minister Theresa May was during the attack, but said she had not been involved and that she was safe.

About five minutes we hard a bang, and then screams, from our office in the Palace of Westminster.

MAP: The attack has left several people injured

More than fifty schoolchildren were also placed in a high-security cordon inwards Parliament.

Tourists were held in the London Eye ferris wheel while police dealt with the situation.

A woman was amazingly pulled out of the Thames Sea alive some time later.

Commons Leader David Lidington has told MPs: “The alleged assailant was shot by armed police, an ambulance is presently attending the scene to eliminate the casualities.

“There are also reports of further violent incidents in the Palace of Westminster but it would be wrong of me to go into further details before confirmation from the police.”

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«A stud came past my right shoulder with a big knife and just embarked plunging it into the policeman»

MPs and staff sent messages to friends and family to let them know they were safe.

Labour MP Jon Trickett tweeted during the incident telling: “Democracy will not be intimidated by terror.”

Dennis Burns described the chaotic scenes after the attack telling: “When I got inwards I was wondering what the hell was going on and I spotted dozens of panicked people running down the street.

“The very first stream was around thirty people and the 2nd stream was seventy people.

“It looked like they were running for their lives.”

Another witness Rick Longley fought back tears as he described watching the attacker stab a police officer.

He said: “We were just walking up to the station and there was a noisy bang and a dude, someone, crashed a car and took some pedestrians out.

LOCKDOWN: Police have halted the London Eye

“They were just laying there and then the entire crowd just surged around the corner by the gates just opposite Big Ben.

“A man came past my right shoulder with a big knife and just commenced plunging it into the policeman.

“I have never seen anything like that. I just can’t believe what I just eyed.”

Prime Minister Theresa May has called an emergency Cobra meeting for later today.

The House of Commons and the House of Lords will sit as normal tomorrow.

Metropolitan police said members of public should avoid the following areas: Parliament Square, Whitehall, Westminster Bridge, Lambeth Bridge, Victoria Street up to the junction with Broadway and Victoria Embankment up to Embankment Tube station.

INJURED: Cops have said that many people are injured

Tube services at Westminster were cancelled.

People around the world reacted in horror to the horrifying incident.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: «Our thoughts are with the victims of this horrific attack, their families and friends.”

The Scottish Parliament at Holyrood suspended their vote on an independence referendum as a result of the chaos.

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