Donald Trump Pledges US Support For UK After London Attack

Hours before carrying out the attack on Wednesday, he told the staff of Preston Park Hotel in Brighton, where he was staying, that “London isn’t like what it used to be”. The best response to this outrage is to make sure we come together in solidarity and not allow the terrorists to divide us. That brings the total number of people in custody for the Wednesday attack to nine. Some had injuries they could walk away from or who have life-changing injuries.

“We will continue to do all we can to protect the people of London“.

A woman who was on a passing bus at the time said she heard what she believed to be gunshots and then saw a auto strike a woman.

Police said they believe Masood, 52, acted alone when he drove an SUV into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge before stabbing a police officer on the Parliament’s grounds.

– Aysha Frade, a British citizen whose mother is Spanish, was also killed on the bridge.

Two war veterans were reportedly among the first to rush to the aide of PC Keith Palmer who was fatally stabbed in the Parliament terror attack.

The BBC believes that Masood hired the vehicle used in the attack earlier this week from the Spring Hill branch of Enterprise in north Birmingham. Seven are in a critical condition.

But his ties to Birmingham, where he had lived until late a year ago, raised more questions about the city of about 1.1 million.

Metropolitan Police counterterrorism chief Mark Rowley told reporters that he believed the assailant “acted alone” and that he was “inspired by global terrorism”. He had several convictions on charges not pertaining to terrorism, including public order offenses and possession of firearms, having first been convicted in 1983. “There are many indications thatthere was a terrorist background”, Mr de Maiziere said in an emailed statement.

In a defiant message to a packed House of Commons, Mrs May said: “We will never waver in the face of terrorism”. She also said he was a “peripheral figure” in the investigation. He was not part of the current intelligence picture.

The Islamic State group had claimed responsibility for the attacks on Thursday, saying one of its “soldiers” had carried it out.

“All I can tell you is what the police have said so far, which is that he was someone known to them, but that he was on the periphery of the intelligence agencies”.

Joseph Downing, from the London School of Economics, expressed scepticism over ISIL’s claim. At least one person involved in the incidents has died.

A plain clothes police officer dressed in a suit, pulled out a gun and yelled for the attacker, who was running toward parliament, to stop. “What sort of assistance, if any, did the assailant have and whether he belonged to any sort of network”. The casualties included 12 Britons, four South Koreans, three French children, two Romanians, two Greeks, one German, one Pole, one Chinese and one American, May said.