London Parliament attack: 'At least two people killed' in Westminster in terror incident

At least two people are feared dead after a terror attack in the heart of London.

One woman has been confirmed killed and a number of others have been hurt – including some with “catastrophic” injuries – on Westminster Bridge, a junior doctor at St Thomas’ Hospital has said.

Another individual is also reportedly dead.

The driver is reported to have mowed down at least a dozen pedestrians as he drove a grey Hyundai car across Westminster Bridge and towards Parliament.

He then crashed it into railings before reportedly running through the gates and stabbing a police officer.

Police then fired at least three shots on the attacker with some reports stating he has been killed.

Eyewitnesses have described the alleged assailant as an “Asian guy” in his forties.

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Video footage showed victims laying motionless on the bridge after being struck.

The car ploughed into several pedestrians, according to initial reports, with other people fleeing in panic.

Police have said they are treating the incident as a terror attack.

Radoslaw Sikorski posted a video to Twitter purporting to show people lying injured in the road on Westminster Bridge.

Mr Sikorski, a senior fellow at Harvard Centre for European Studies, said he saw at least five people lying on the ground after being “mown down” by a car.

“I heard what I thought what I thought was just a collision and then I looked through the window of the taxi and someone down, obviously in great distress,” he told the BBC.

“Then I saw a second person down, and I started filming, then I saw three more people down, one of them bleeding profusely.”

Jayne Wilkinson, an eyewitness, said: “We were taking photos of Big Ben and we saw all the people running towards us, and then there was an Asian guy in about his 40s carrying a knife about seven or eight inches long.

“And then there were three shots fired, and then we crossed the road and looked over. The man was on the floor with blood.

“He had a lightweight jacket on, dark trousers and a shirt. He was running through those gates, towards Parliament, and the police were chasing him.”

The incident happened at around 2:40pm after a loud explosion was also heard in the vicinity.

A tweet from the Metropolitan Police read: “We were called at approx 2:40pm to reports of an incident at #Westminster Bridge. Being treated as a firearms incident – police on scene.”

Alex Wafer, 47, who was cycling nearby and saw the aftermath, said: “At the end of the embankment it appears as though there is an ambulance.

“It looks as if they are treating somebody.

“And just below, it looks like there may be another paramedic treating someone else.”

Kevin Schofield, the editor of PoliticsHome.com heard “a very loud bang” from the press gallery inside the Houses of Parliament followed by lots of shouting and men running around.

He initially thought it was a car crash but then he looked outside the window to a heavily-guarded area outside which is out of bounds to the public.

He told Sky News: “Someone rushed through, attacked a policeman, a policeman went down, another policeman came and he was rescued.

“The man who had assaulted him got up and he appeared to be carrying either a knife or a gun. Then we heard gunfire, lots of gunfire, maybe five or six rounds.

“All I remember seeing is the man approaching the police officer probably with a knife and then there was gunfire.

Eyewitness Rick Longley told the Press Association he saw a man stab a policeman.

Fighting back tears he said: “We were just walking up to the station and there was a loud bang and a guy, someone, crashed a car and took some pedestrians out.

“They were just laying there and then the whole crowd just surged around the corner by the gates just opposite Big Ben.

“A guy came past my right shoulder with a big knife and just started plunging it into the policeman.

“I have never seen anything like that. I just can’t believe what I just saw.”