Police Treating UK Parliament Attack As ‘Terrorist Incident’

Northlanders in London have reacted to the terrorist attack that left five people dead and dozens more injured after a man drove into crowds of people and stabbed a policeman to death.

Scotland Yard has announced that they are treating the incident as a terrorist attack “until we know otherwise“.

But she said the attacker was “not part of the current intelligence picture”.

Authorities on Thursday identified a 52-year-old Briton as the man who mowed down pedestrians and stabbed a policeman to death outside Parliament in London, saying he had a long criminal record and once was investigated for extremism – but was not now on a terrorism watch list. “It is indeed remarkable that we haven’t seen more attacks occur, and it’s a testament to the great work that the security services in the U.K.do”. British media reported “catastrophic injuries” while police confirmed four individuals had been killed. But one day she saw him packing their belongings, and then they were gone just months after moving in. When firearms were given to the police in the early 20th century, only trained officers who could prove they needed one, got one.

The woman in her forties was named by Sky News as Aysha Frade, who was from Spain but had a British passport.

ISIS claimed responsibility for its first attack on British soil and said the crazed knifeman was its “soldier”. That claim could not be verified. The attack is being investigated as a terrorist incident.

Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood (centre) helps emergency services attend to a police officer outside the Palace of Westminster after the attack. He was then shot dead by other officers.

Cities around the world illuminated landmark buildings Wednesday evening to show solidarity with London after authorities confirmed five people were killed and 40 injured after a brazen vehicle and knife attack outside U.K. Parliament.

The assault on Westminster was the deadliest in Britain since four suicide bombers killed 52 people on the city’s transport system in July 2005.

Londoners have come together in an attempt to show the city’s defiance in the face of terror and to “show solidarity”.

Like many Irish people based in London, she said she has been inundated with messages from friends and family back home.

British residents can visit parliament by appointment or on tours or to spectate during the weekly prime minister’s questions time on Wednesdays.

The neighbour said her experience of him was of a “nice man”. It said on its Amaq website the attacker “carried out the operation in response to calls for targeting citizens of the coalition” of countries fighting ISIL in Syria and Iraq. London metro police counterterrorism Chief Mark Rowley said that 29 people were hospitalized and seven were in critical condition.

Born on Christmas Day 1964 in Kent in southeast England, Masood had been living in the West Midlands where armed police have staged several raids since the attack, storming properties in the city of Birmingham. The focus is likely to turn to whether anything could have been done to prevent the attack.