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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 22 2017, 12:01 PM (626 Views) | |
| Webster | Mar 22 2017, 12:01 PM Post #1 |
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.......there are reports coming in over the wire of an apparent terrorist incident right outside or in the vicinity of the Houses of Parliament in London.... (The Guardian) Reports of shooting at House of Commons --There are reports of a shooting at the Commons --Man shot in entrance to the Commons. Appears to be a policeman down too (Jason Groves, Daily Mail - 22 March 2017) |
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| Webster | Mar 22 2017, 12:03 PM Post #2 |
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(The Guardian) (The Guardian's Andrew Sparrow) is in the Guardian office in the press gallery at the Commons. Security officials have told us to stay where we are. In the Commons chamber the sitting has been suspended. My colleague Jessica Elgot is in Portcullis House. She can see 10 to 20 police officers running to the front of the building. About five minutes ago she saw a lot of people running along the street alongside. |
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| Webster | Mar 22 2017, 12:04 PM Post #3 |
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--Can see more than 30 police at the scene, two bodies on the ground. Parliament suspended. (Jim Pickard, Financial Times - 22 March 2017) |
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| Webster | Mar 22 2017, 12:05 PM Post #4 |
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--We are aware of reports of an incident at #Westminster. We will put more information out as soon as we can (Metropolitan Police Service, 22 March 2017) --Just saw Parliamentary security men shoot a man who had attacked a policeman. Impressive reaction times by police. (Quentin Letts, Daily Mail - 22 March 2017) |
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| Webster | Mar 22 2017, 12:07 PM Post #5 |
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(The Guardian) This is from the Press Association. There was a major security alert at the Palace of Westminster after a man apparently carrying a knife charged through the gates into the front yard of the parliamentary compound. Amid shouts and screams, sounds similar to gunfire rang out. Two people were seen to be lying within Old Palace Yard, immediately outside Westminster Hall. The sitting in the House of Commons was suspended while police officers sealed off the area around the incident. Immediately before the incident, at around 2.45pm, a crowd of passers-by was seen running from the direction of Westminster Bridge and around the corner into Parliament Square. |
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| Webster | Mar 22 2017, 12:07 PM Post #6 |
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--We were called at approx 2:40pm to reports of an incident at #Westminster Bridge. Being treated as a firearms incident - police on scene (Metropolitan Police Service, 22 March 2017) |
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| Webster | Mar 22 2017, 12:09 PM Post #7 |
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--Helicopter landing on Parliament Square with emergency services. (Jim Waterson, ITV News - 22 March 2017) |
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| Webster | Mar 22 2017, 12:09 PM Post #8 |
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(The Guardian) Unconfirmed reports of a car involved in the incident on Westminster Bridge, it is being treated as a “firearms incident” say police at the scene. Radosław Sikorski, a senior fellow at CES Harvard has tweeted that a car has hit five people. MPs were told to wait in the Commons chamber when the sitting was suspended. |
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| Webster | Mar 22 2017, 12:10 PM Post #9 |
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(The Guardian) avid Lidington, the leader of the Commons, is making a statement to MPs. He says an alleged assailant was shot by police. He says he cannot go into further details. Lidington says the advice from the police is that the sitting should remain suspended, and that MPs should remain in the chamber. |
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| Webster | Mar 22 2017, 12:11 PM Post #10 |
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(The Guardian) These are from the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg..... (1) MPs tell they heard three or four gunshots (2) Richard tice political campaigner tells me he can see ten bodies on westminster bridge - I can't confirm that from where I am |
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| Webster | Mar 22 2017, 12:12 PM Post #11 |
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(The Guardian) According to Reuters, two people have been shot and at least a dozen injured. (1) MORE: Two people shot outside UK parliament, building in lock down - parliamentary official (2) LATEST: At least a dozen injured on Westminster Bridge outside British parliament - Reuters photographer |
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| Webster | Mar 22 2017, 12:14 PM Post #12 |
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(The Guardian) Radosław Sikorski, a Polish politician, has spoken to the BBC saying: I didn’t see a car but I heard what I thought was a collision, I looked through the window of the taxi and I saw someone down obviously in great distress. He then saw a further four people down on the ground, “one bleeding profusely”, he said. |
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| Webster | Mar 22 2017, 12:15 PM Post #13 |
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(The Guardian) More from the Press Association. Minutes after the incident, an emergency services helicopter landed in Parliament Square, as sirens were heard outside. Air ambulance medics came from the helicopter to assist the casualties. Two people lay on the ground in the yard. One of them appeared to have had clothes removed as emergency workers attempted to resuscitate the pair. Parliament Square was closed to traffic. An ambulance entered the gates to New Palace Yard. Witness Don Brind told the Press Association he heard shots being fired and saw two people apparently injured on the ground. Brind, a researcher for MPs, said: “I heard some shouting and saw some running out of the corner of my eye and then a short time after that there was a shot. I looked and I saw a civilian on the ground, with somebody standing over him with what I assumed to be a gun. “Then I looked and about 10 yards away, there was a yellow jacketed person on the ground, who appeared to be alive and talking.” He said he assumed the person in the high-visibility jacket was a police officer. Pictures emerged of a car having crashed into the railings of Parliament at the end of Westminster Bridge Press Association reporter Laura Harding, who was in Westminster at the time of the incident, said: “Everyone has been evacuated into Central Lobby, including a group of schoolchildren and kitchen staff. “Around 15 schoolchildren aged around 10, with armed police coming through the lobby now. “The children are really calm, the teachers are comforting them. “Everyone is standing around on their phones. “There are also a bunch of young people from the Hammersmith Boxing Club in their tracksuits and the British Lionhearts boxing group.” Dennis Burns, who was just entering Parliament for a meeting when the security alert happened, told the Press Association: “As I was coming through the doors at Portcullis House, a policeman grabbed someone who was coming in and threw him out. “As we were coming though the glass doors I was told by one security guard to get out while another one told me to get in. “As I walked in I heard a security guard get a radio message saying ‘a policeman has been stabbed’. “Then I walked in as police officers and security start rushing out of the front doors on to the street. “When I got inside I was wondering what the hell was going on and I saw dozens of panicked people running down the street. The first stream was around 30 people and the second stream was 70 people. “It looked like they were running for their lives.” |
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| Webster | Mar 22 2017, 12:17 PM Post #14 |
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--Emergency services still trying to resuscitate Commons intruder, but doesn't look good (Jason Groves, Daily Mail - 22 March 2017) --Government source says PM is OK (Steve Hawkes, Deputy Political Editor, The Sun -- 22 March 2017) |
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| Webster | Mar 22 2017, 12:18 PM Post #15 |
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(The Guardian) Police officer stabbed, and attacker shot by armed officers, MPs told --Commons leader David Lidington has told MPs a “police officer has been stabbed” and the “alleged assailant was shot by armed police” following a serious incident within the parliamentary estate, PA reported. In a packed House of Commons, Lidington said: At the moment the very clear advice from the police and director of security in the house is we should remain under suspension and the chamber remain in lockdown until we receive advice that it is safe. |
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