London: The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the terror attack in the heart of London that killed four people.
According to international English news channel said, “So-called Islamic State says it was behind attack in Westminster, according to a statement from the group.”
The agency added, “The so-called Islamic State terror group has claimed through its news agency that the Westminster attacker was a ‘soldier of the Islamic State’.”
At least five persons were killed when a terror attack carried outside the Parliament House in central London on Wednesday.
According to British police, three people and a terrorist were dead after an attacker brought carnage to central London on yesterday.
Police official confirmed that terrorist also attacked pedestrians on Westminster Bridge and hacked police cop with knives in the grounds of the Houses of Parliament.
Metro Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley told reporters that about 40 people were injured in the attack.
Rowley who is also top anti-terror officer in London, said that the police officer who died in the attack is identified as Keith Palmer.
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Although, the attacker was shot dead after he stabbed Palmer and the other three victims who were all civilians.
According to local media reported, at least 40 other people were hit on the crowded bridge when a 4×4 drove along the pavement, knocking down pedestrians before crashing into a fence below Big Ben.
An eye witnessed described that intruder was believed to be “middle-aged and Asian” who managed to break into the grounds of the Parliament where he fatally stabbed a police officer with two knives.
Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May was packaged inside her car by a plain-clothes police officer and driven quickly from the scene as the attack was carried out.
Scotland Yard said the attack, which comes a year to the day after the terrorist atrocities in Brussels, was being treated “as a terrorist incident until we know otherwise”.
A spokesman for the Port of London Authority, which looks after safety on the River Thames, said: “A female member of the public was recovered from the water near Westminster Bridge. She is alive but undergoing urgent medical treatment on a nearby pier. We believe she fell from the bridge.”
