the house of commons who just made that statement that someone had been shot has said these are his quotes. there are reports of further vile oent incidents in the vicinity. this squares with what kelly cobiella was just telling us. they re getting reports from two different locations but they re not sure what it is. as you said, malcolm, the incident was on the west minister bridge or one of them was on the westminster bridge near parliament. parliament was suspended. britain s intelligence agency says it s too early to determine if this has anything to do with terror. but the house of commons has been suspended. journalists in parliament have been told to stay in their offices. we do not know if there s an all clear. and the press association is saying that two people were seen lying on the grounds of parliament. lying on the ground when you hear gunfire wouldn t be unusual. doesn t necessarily mean people have been shot. that s a pretty tight area. i ve been around that area quite
terrorist incident according to a statement from british police that i just received. that s what you d expect them to do because they can t know the motive of whoever was involved in this attack, be it one person or more than one. but they will have their terrorist response units on that scene, not least because of the risk to the large numbers of important people. the prime minister, we know the queen is in buckingham palace. buckingham palaceor your information is not far from victoria street so and not far from the pictures that you can see there of the heart of british government and the british constitution are all squeezed into that area. so again, scotland yard treating this as a terrorist incident, they say, until we know otherwise. we re going to try and get an update from mi-5. mi-5 s last piece of information was that it s too early to know it s a terrorist incident.
for your own viewers, who would be surprised an attack has not taken place in london because security forces had been expecting attacks in london for the past few years. but we have to wait and see before we can talk about the nature of the attack, the identity of the attack or attackers and how serious the attack or attacks, you know, were. fawaz, stand by. i want to go to quinton lentz. he apparently witnessed the stabbing. the first thing that seemed to happen was an incident on westminster bridge, which i did not see, but i have an office which just overlooks a patch of grass underneath big ben, that famous clock. it s an area where members of the british parliament drive in in their cars before going into an underground car park. it s a small area with some grass. i saw a after the sound of something happening on the
it seems to me as if there are so many police outside that they re trying mak the area as sterile as poible. camilla, stand by. keir smons, news from the police? just received a statement from scotland yard. i m going to read it to you so you get the full picture. scotland yard asking people to avoid the following areas. it lists many areas close together that you can see on your screen there. parliament square, white hall, westminster bridge, victoria street up to the junction with broadway and the victoria embankment to embankment tube. just as i read that, that s quite a wide area loopg by the river, further up by victoria station. it goes on to say this is to allow the emergency services to deal with an ongoing incident. officers including firearms officers remain on the scene, and we are treating this as a terrorist incident until we know otherwise. and thanks the public for their assistance. scotland yard treating this as a
that is the westminster bridge. the side of the bridge that it looks as if the incident has occurred is facing the houses of parliament. you would be able to see the houses of parliament from there. there is actually an area where members of parliament can sit outside by the river. it is visible from that part of the bridge. so further down that from that bridge with the parliament on the left, then you get to parliament square which you can see in the other picture. that s where, if people have been to london, that s where the statue of winston churchill is. that s where it seems as if there s a helicopter that would have found a place to live there. right across from there is white hall. downing street is, i guess, around halfway down there, that road. and then i guess around half a mile away is buckingham palace where the royal officia say the queen is currently. it s a compact area. there are a lot of very important people in that area.