among the injured, the french prime minister has promised his full support for the victims. the prime minister, who was in parliament, has returned to downing street to chair and emergency cobra meeting. hello from westminster. we are at the police cordon around westminster after a day which has seen four people killed, including the attacker who stabbed a police officer at the palace gates, the palace of westminster gates, and who died of stab wounds. the attacker began, it seems, by driving a vehicle across westminster bridge and running into civilians who were pedestrians on that bridge, including a group of french schoolchildren from brittany. three of them were injured, a woman was thrown over the bridge into the river thames and pulled alive from the river thames. 20 people injured in all, according to the london ambulance service, four dead, including the attacker. two people on the bridge and the police officer who was stabbed to death. in the last few minutes we have
london, our other headlines: three french students were among the injured in the attack. the french prime minister has promised his full support for the victims. and the british prime minister theresa may came out into downing street to make a statement shortly after holding a government emergency meeting. i have just chaired a meeting of the government s emergency committee, cobra, following the sick and depraved terrorist attack on the streets of our capital, this afternoon. welcome from westminster, where it has been a horrifying and bloody day. four people are dead at the end of it. including it seems the assailant. and a police officer who was stabbed at the gates of the palace of westminster. before that, a vehicle driven across westminster bridge careered into a number of people on the bridge and injured at least 20 of them. it killed two. 20 people injured and a number of them still in hospital tonight, at saint thomases in kings college. the prime minister has been s
condemned what she called a sick and depraved terrorist attack in london that left a policeman, three civilians and the attacker dead. the officer has been named as constable keith palmer, who was a8, a husband and a father. he had been in service for 15 years. the country s top anti terrorism officer has said the police are assuming the attacker was motivated by islamic extremism. at least forty people were injured including members of a school party from france, five south korean visitors, two romanian tourists and three other policemen. this was the sequence of events which started unfolding at 2:40 on wednesday afternoon local time. the man drove a car across westminster bridge, mounting the pavement, hitting many pedestrians, killing at least two of them and causing some very serious injuries before crashing into railings outside the houses of parliament. he then ran through the gates of the palace of westminster armed with a knife and stabbed a police officer who late
condemned what she called a sick and depraved terrorist attack in london that left a policeman, three civilians and the attacker dead. the officer has been named as constable keith palmer, who was a8, a husband and a father. the country s top anti terrorism officer has said the police are assuming the attacker was motivated by islamic extremism. at least a0 people were injured including members of a school party from france, five south korean visitors, two romanian tourists, and three other policemen. this was the sequence of events which started unfolding at 2:40 on wednesday afternoon local time. the man drove a car across westminster bridge, mounting the pavement, hitting many pedestrians, killing at least two of them and causing some very serious injuries before crashing into railings outside the houses of parliament. he then ran through the gates of the palace of westminster armed with a knife and stabbed a police officer who later died, despite the best efforts of a t
tower we re attack. the lights on the eiffel tower were turned off as a mark of respect. the british prime minister has condemned what she called a sick and depraved terrorist attack in london, that left a policeman, three civilians and the attacker dead. the officer has been named as constable keith palmer, who was a8, a husband and a father. the country s top anti terrorism officer has said the police are assuming the attacker was motivated by islamic extremism. at least a0 people were injured including members of a school party from france, five south korean visitors, two romanian tourists and three other policemen. this was the sequence of events which started unfolding at two forty on wednesday afternoon local time. the man drove a car across westminster bridge, mounting the pavement, hitting many pedestrians, killing at least two of them and causing some very serious injuries before crashing into railings outside the houses of parliament he then ran through the gates