The London Police has killed the man who stabbed a cop.
The BBC said the Palace of Westminster was in lockdown after reports of shots being fired outside the British Parliament in London.
According to the witnesses, people were being treated for injuries. They also said they saw a man with a knife in the palace grounds.
Some unconfirmed reports have also been received of a car mowing down several people on the nearby Westminster Bridge in London. A mobile phone footage on Twitter showed some injured people on the bridge.
London police said they were called to a firearms incident on Westminster Bridge near the British parliament.
“We were called at approx 2:40 pm to reports of an incident at #Westminster Bridge. Being treated as a firearms incident – police on scene,” the Metropolitan police tweeted.
Meanwhile, Transport for London said the underground station at Westminster has been shut at the request of the police.
Scotland Yard has said the attack in Westminster was being treated “as a terrorist incident until we know otherwise”.
According to the Irish Times, three shots rang out outside the Palace of Westminster after a man ran through the gates into the front yard of the parliamentary compound apparently waving a knife.
Commons Leader David Lidington told MPs that a “police officer has been stabbed” and the “alleged assailant was shot by armed police”.
“What I am able to say to the House is there has been a serious incident within the estate.”
“It seems that a police officer has been stabbed, that the alleged assailant was shot by armed police.”
“An air ambulance is currently attending the scene to remove the casualties. “There are also reports of further violent incidents in the vicinity of the Palace of Westminster but I hope colleagues on all sides will appreciate that it’d be wrong of me to go into further details until we have confirmation from the police and from the House security authorities about what is going on.”
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