A knife attacker has been shot after a car mowed down pedestrians on Westminster Bridge and charged the gates of parliament, in what police are treating as a terrorist incident.
Police are treating the incident as terrorism
A woman is dead and others have "catastrophic" injuries
Several people have been injured after a car reportedly mounted the pavement on Westminster Bridge and "tried to mow people down"
A police officer was stabbed inside Parliament grounds. The officer's condition is not known
Alleged assailant shot by armed police
A woman has died and a number of others have been hurt, including some with "catastrophic" injuries in the incident on Westminster Bridge, the Press Association reports junior doctor Colleen Anderson as saying.
She also said she treated a police officer in his 30s who had been taken to King's College Hospital with a head injury.
“I confirmed one fatality. A woman. She was under the wheel of a bus. She died, confirmed her death at the scene.”
“There were people across the bridge. There were some with minor injuries, some catastrophic. Some had injuries they could walk away from or who have life-changing injuries.
“There were maybe a dozen (injured).”
An eyewitness told Sky News he saw a body in the Thames after the car drove into people on Westminster Bridge.
Photographs show people lying on Westminster Bridge, bleeding heavily. There is no official estimate of the number injured in the incident.
Another witness, Richard Tyse, told Sky News: "I came out of Westminster tube station which was being locked down behind me [by police]. I was ushered onto Westminster Bridge and looked onto the west pavement of the bridge and literally north to south."
"I must have counted 8-10 prostrate figures on the ground. I understand a car had driven along the pavement knocking people over and that's why many people were lying on the ground."
He added: "The whole length of the bridge there were people on the ground."
A woman has died and a number of others have been hurt, including some with "catastrophic" injuries in the incident on Westminster Bridge, the Press Association reports junior doctor Colleen Anderson as saying.
She also said she treated a police officer in his 30s who had been taken to King's College Hospital with a head injury.
“I confirmed one fatality. A woman. She was under the wheel of a bus. She died, confirmed her death at the scene.”
“There were people across the bridge. There were some with minor injuries, some catastrophic. Some had injuries they could walk away from or who have life-changing injuries.
“There were maybe a dozen (injured).”
An eyewitness told Sky News he saw a body in the Thames after the car drove into people on Westminster Bridge.
Photographs show people lying on Westminster Bridge, bleeding heavily. There is no official estimate of the number injured in the incident.
Another witness, Richard Tyse, told Sky News: "I came out of Westminster tube station which was being locked down behind me [by police]. I was ushered onto Westminster Bridge and looked onto the west pavement of the bridge and literally north to south."
"I must have counted 8-10 prostrate figures on the ground. I understand a car had driven along the pavement knocking people over and that's why many people were lying on the ground."
He added: "The whole length of the bridge there were people on the ground."
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