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March 22, 2017 08:52 am PDT

UK Parliament attack: cop stabbed, car driven into at least five bystanders, shots fired

The British Parliament is in lockdown after a shooting incident there, reports the BBC. A police officer was reportedly stabbed after a vehicle ran five people over on nearby Westminster Bridge and an assailant charged the gates. Metropolitan police say they shot the attacker and are presumptively treating it as a terrorist incident "until we know otherwise."

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BBC Radio 5 reports that "around three shots" were heard.

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It's not clear if there were two separate assailants. The obvious assumption taking hold on social media is that attacker in Parliament Square was either the driver of the vehicle or arrived in it. The Prime Minister and her cabinet are reportedly safe.https://twitter.com/thepatrickdaly/status/844561414907985922

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Update: the BBC posted a map of the area and the events as reported, with a detailed eyewitness report.

Press Association political editor Andrew Woodcock witnessed the scenes unfolding from his office window overlooking New Palace Yard."I heard shouts and screams from outside and looked out, and there was a group of maybe 40 or 50 people running round the corner from Bridge Street into Parliament Square. They appeared to be running away from something. As the group arrived at the Carriage Gates, where policemen are posted at the security entrance, a man suddenly ran out of the crowd and into the yard. He seemed to be holding up a long kitchen knife. I heard what sounded like shots - I think about three of them - and then the next thing I knew there were two people lying on the ground and others running to help them.

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