The latest in what we know, and don’t, about the deadly attack on Wednesday in London, where a man driving a sport utility vehicle crushed panicked pedestrians on Westminster Bridge and then stabbed and killed a police officer outside Parliament.
What We Know
• At least five people were killed, including the attacker and a police officer, and 40 were wounded in an attack in London on Wednesday, the head of London’s Metropolitan Police counterterrorism unit said.
• The driver of a large vehicle mowed down pedestrians on Westminster Bridge, which leads to Parliament, around 2:40 p.m. After the crash, he left the vehicle and approached Parliament, where he fatally stabbed a police officer. The police then fatally shot him.
• Parliament was locked down and a search was conducted for any other assailants in the area. The police said they believed there was only one attacker.
• Three people who were run over on the bridge died, and the Port of London Authority said another woman was pulled from the River Thames with severe injuries.
• The police officer who was killled, Keith Palmer, 48, had 15 years of service and was a member of the parliamentary and diplomatic protection division of the Metropolitan Police.
• Others injured on the bridge included three police officers and several French high school students.
• The police said officers had been summoned to the bridge after reports of “a firearms incident,” and witnesses reported gunfire near an office building for lawmakers and their staff members.
• The police said a “full counterterrorism investigation was underway.”
• Prime Minister Theresa May was taken from the scene in a silver Jaguar as the gunfire erupted. She later denounced “the sick and depraved terrorist attack on the streets of our capital this afternoon.”
• One of the busiest sections of London was cordoned off and evacuated, the Westminster station of London’s subway system was closed, and additional police officers have been stationed across the capital.
What We Don’t Know
• The identity and motives of the attacker, although Scotland Yard officials said they believed they knew who he was. No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack. The “working assumption” of the police is that the attacker was inspired by “international terrorism,” according to Mark Rowley, the acting deputy commissioner and national lead for counterterrorism with the Metropolitan Police.
• The severity of the injuries among many of the 40 who were wounded in the attack.
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