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| 2017 Westminster Terror Thread | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 22 2017, 12:01 PM (633 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, 07:59 PM Post #121 |
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(The Guardian) (Guardian parliamentary sketchwriter) John Crace, who works from our Westminster office, witnessed the death of PC Keith Palmer this afternoon. He writes here of the shock of the attack: The mind goes numb at times like these. A disconnect between brain and feeling. So it took me the best part of an hour to make sense of what I had seen. But the simple truth is this. Today I saw a man die. A police officer, someone I had almost certainly said “hello” to at some point over the years. Possibly even this morning … Armed police officers ran to the scene. Some started tending to the bodies; others stood around. Another man came running out. I didn’t recognise him. None of us did, we must have all been in shock. It later turned out he was Tobias Ellwood, a junior foreign minister whom we had all seen countless times before. Time stretched out as people began to do CPR on both bodies. Then after what felt like an age later, but can only have been a matter of minutes, there was the noise overhead of the air ambulance preparing to land in Parliament Square. Several armed police officers ran from New Palace Yard to talk to three paramedics dressed in yellow. They bypassed the first body – the assailant – and went straight to work on the fallen policeman. The scene became more ordered, yet more urgent. They worked for several minutes, hoping for a miracle that never came. -Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/22/the-numbing-afternoon-when-i-saw-a-police-officer-die-outside-parliament |
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| Webster | Mar 22 2017, 08:05 PM Post #122 |
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(The Guardian) Yonhap news agency in Seoul reports that five South Korean tourists were injured in the attack on Westminster Bridge. It cites a tour agency official saying four “sustained light injuries, and another serious injury … They are now being treated at two hospitals.” Yonhap says the seriously injured tourist has been identified as “a 67-year-old woman surnamed Park”. It says she is being treated at St Mary’s hospital, in Paddington, for a head injury sustained when she fell in the scramble to leave the bridge. |
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| Webster | Mar 22 2017, 09:33 PM Post #123 |
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(The Guardian) 8:56pm Summary -Five people are now confirmed to have died in the attack on Westminster on Wednesday: one police officer, three members of the public, and the attacker. -The police officer has been named as PC Keith Palmer, 48, a member of the parliamentary and diplomatic protection command, with 15 years’ service in the force. He was a husband and father. -The other victims of the attack, and the assailant, have not yet been identified. -Police said 40 other people were injured; many remain in hospital tonight, some in a serious condition. -Investigators say they believe they know the identity of the attacker, and that he is thought to have acted alone but was “inspired by international terrorism”. -Parliament will resume on Friday morning. |
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| Webster | Mar 22 2017, 09:34 PM Post #124 |
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(The Guardian) Edge Hill University, in Ormskirk, Lancashire, has confirmed that some of its students were injured on Westminster Bridge. In a statement, the university said the group – believed to have been 13 students and their lecturer – had been visiting the capital on a field trip. Two students were taken to hospital. Owen Lambert, 18, from Morecambe, Lancashire, needed stitches to a head wound, and Travis Frain from Darwen, who, according to a tweet from a local journalist, had a cracked rib plus hand and arm injuries. His mother, Angela Frain, confirmed he was in hospital: I have spoken to him at 3.20pm and I know he’s OK. He’s at the hospital with a police officer. The police officer just said he was in good spirits. Two other students are believed to have minor injuries but were not hospitalised. All others on the trip were safe and accounted for, the university said. Dr John Cater, vice-chancellor of Edge Hill, told BBC North West Tonight: They had just actually finished their session, were leaving the parliament building and in the Westminster Bridge area where we understand … they were involved in the incident. We understand that two students have been taken to hospital but as walking wounded – one with a head wound and one with a wrist injury. There are two other students who have minor injuries who are with police and acting as witnesses. The good news is that the other nine students are now back in a hostel receiving support and will return to the north-west tomorrow. The details are invariably hazy … Our assumption is that they were either knocked over by other people or struck by the vehicle. Obviously all of them will be somewhat traumatised by what they have seen as well. The students are due to return to Ormskirk on Thursday. |
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| Webster | Mar 22 2017, 09:35 PM Post #125 |
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(The Guardian) Police officers across the UK have expressed sorrow at the death of PC Keith Palmer, Press Association reports: Greater Manchester Police chief constable Ian Hopkins said: “RIP PC Keith Palmer, brutally murdered today carrying out his duty helping to protect parliament and the freedom of our country.” The Metropolitan Police Federation, which represents officers from the force, said: “PC Keith Palmer. Our brave Met police colleague who today made the ultimate sacrifice.” |
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| Webster | Mar 22 2017, 09:46 PM Post #126 |
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--Spoke to U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May today to offer condolences on the terrorist attack in London. She is strong and doing very well. (Donald J. Trump, President of the United States - 22 March 2017) |
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| Webster | Mar 22 2017, 09:47 PM Post #127 |
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(The Guardian) The South Korean embassy in London has sent officials to two London hospitals where five South Korean victims are being treated, media in Seoul have reported. All of the injured South Koreans are believed to be aged in their 50s or 60s. A South Korean foreign ministry official said the embassy had entered emergency mode since the terrorist attack, according to KBS World Radio. The report added that South Korean nationals travelling in the UK had been sent text messages alerting them about possible risks. “Three of the four women and a man sustained relatively light injuries but the other woman sustained an injury to her head and underwent surgery at a nearby hospital,” KBS World Radio reported, saying the tourists were hurt when they were caught in a stampede of people fleeing the attack on Westminster Bridge. The Seoul Shinmun, a daily broadsheet, reported that the 67-year-old female victim, who has been identified only as Park, was not directly injured by the vehicle driven deliberately by the attacker into pedestrians on the bridge, but fell to the floor. She is undergoing surgery at St Mary’s hospital, Paddington. Park arrived in London a day earlier together with her husband and was scheduled to leave for Paris later on Wednesday, Yonhap news agency reported, citing officials. Of the four other South Koreans injured in the incident, two required surgery due to a clavicle fracture or arm fracture, and the remaining two patients complained of pain, according to the Seoul Shinmum. -Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2017/mar/22/peers-say-brexit-with-no-trade-deal-would-cause-signicicant-damage-to-service-sector-politics-live?page=with:block-58d31068e4b01ea2330bb1ac#block-58d31068e4b01ea2330bb1ac |
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| Webster | Mar 22 2017, 10:18 PM Post #128 |
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![]() --JUST IN: Here's a picture of all of the Muslims out protesting the horrendous terrorist attack in London. #PrayForLondon #LondonAttack (Republican Party of Tennessee, 22 March 2017) |
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| Webster | Mar 22 2017, 10:38 PM Post #129 |
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(The Guardian) The Australian prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has extended Australia’s “heartfelt sympathy and resolute solidarity” to the people of the UK. The attack in the British parliament is an attack on parliaments, freedom and democracy everywhere. Westminster is rightly known as the mother of parliaments. Almost every element of our parliamentary tradition, here in Australia, is modelled on that of the houses of parliament in London. We send our condolences, especially to the families of the victims, those injured, including a police officer murdered by the terrorist. Turnbull said he had received briefings on the attack from Australia’s counter-terrorism coordinator, Tony Sheehan, and the high commissioner in London, Alexander Downer. He had also spoken to the Australian federal police commissioner and the director general of security, Duncan Lewis. Turnbull added that there would be an increased police presence in Canberra’s Parliament House on Thursday. Australians should be reassured that our agencies are today, as every day, working relentlessly to keep Australians safe. We are very alert to the vulnerabilities of places of mass gathering and the risk of lone attackers, like the terrorist in London. Keeping Australians safe is our highest priority. It is the first duty of my government. -Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2017/mar/23/coalition-labor-parliament-australian-politics-live |
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| Webster | Mar 22 2017, 10:39 PM Post #130 |
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(The Guardian) What happened in Westminster was witnessed by a number of parliamentary journalists, whose offices immediately overlook New Palace Yard, the cobbled square through which many MPs and peers drive each day to access parliament’s underground carpark: Quentin Letts, the Daily Mail’s parliamentary sketchwriter, has a desk near the window overlooking the yard; on hearing a loud crash and some screams, he told BBC news, he and his colleagues rushed to see what was happening. “Then I saw a thick-set man dressed in black clothes, he looked I would say about 40 years old, I don’t think he had much hair, running … through the gates. He seemed to have something in his hand, a stick or something like that.” A policeman who tried to challenge the man had fallen over, Letts said, “and the attacker was hitting him, possibly striking him or knifing him”. The weapon was a knife, and the stab wounds inflicted would prove fatal. The victim was later named as PC Keith Palmer, a 48-year-old officer with 15 years’ service who was a husband and father. The attacker then ran towards the entrance of the parliament building that is used by MPs each day. “He got about 15 yards or so when he was shot by two plain-clothes men who had come out of the building, having been summoned by the uniformed police,” said Letts. Before shooting, they shouted something at the man, “and he appeared to ignore them and still ran towards them, and they shot him about three times”. -Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/22/all-hell-was-let-loose-witnesses-on-the-westminster-attack |
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| Webster | Mar 22 2017, 11:48 PM Post #131 |
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(The Guardian) Australian injured in London attack --Australia’s attorney general, George Brandis, has said “an Australian permanent resident” was injured in the attack in Westminster and is in hospital. Consular staff in London are offering the woman assistance, he said. He added: We stand in solidarity with the people of the United Kingdom. |
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| Webster | Mar 22 2017, 11:48 PM Post #132 |
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(The Guardian) Malcolm Turnbull and Australian Labor leader Bill Shorten are offering condolences to the UK in the Canberra parliament now, with the British High Commissioner Menna Rawlings looking on. Turnbull said: As prime minister Theresa May said earlier this morning, the values of the British parliament command the admiration and respect of free people everywhere. And so they do because they are our values too. We stand, all of us, with the UK. Comforted that we share those values. They’re ours. Freedom of speech, democracy, the rule of law. We will never give in to terror. He said of British MP Tobias Ellwood, who assisted attempts to resuscitate the police officer, PC Keith Palmer, who was fatally stabbed: This act of heroism is just one of the extraordinary stories that are emerging from this tragedy. Shorten paid tribute to Palmer: The murder of the Metropolitan police officer reminds us of the risks our security agencies take on our behalf to keep us safe. And on behalf of all honourable members I want to acknowledge and thank our Australian federal police and the parliamentary security officers for whom this news must strike a particular chord. |
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| Webster | Mar 22 2017, 11:49 PM Post #133 |
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(The Guardian) A police raid has taken place in the early hours of Thursday morning in Birmingham, where Hagley Road in the southwest of the city was cordoned off for a while. At this point it is not clear whether this is in any way related to the attack in London. I’ll have more details here if they emerge. |
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| Webster | Mar 22 2017, 11:55 PM Post #134 |
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(Daily Mail) Armed police have been involved in a raid at a residential property near to a curry house in Birmingham this evening, closing off part of the city for more than two hours. Dozens of officers, some response and some with weapons, were seen swooping an address near to the Bearwood part of the city this evening. Hagley Road was closed for a period of time and then reopened. BBC Newsnight has claimed the vehicle used in the London terror attacks could have been rented from the same road. The road is said to have closed at 11pm and reopened by 2am, with witnesses in the area saying people had been taken away by the address. They believe the officers may have been from a counter terrorism unit. West Midlands Police gave a short statement earlier, which read: 'There is an ongoing police operation, no further details are being given at this stage.' |
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| Webster | Mar 23 2017, 12:28 AM Post #135 |
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--#Westminster - All approaches to Parliament Sq remain closed. Northumberland Ave, Millbank and the Mall also remain closed. Use other routes (Transport for London Traffic News - 23 March 2017) |
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