Video footage shows moment of London attack

A video of Westminster Bridge shows the moment a car speeds onto the pavement to run over pedestrians with a person seen jumping into the River Thames below.

>>Reuters
Published : 23 March 2017, 04:50 AM
Updated : 23 March 2017, 05:22 AM
 

A video emerged of Westminster Bridge on Wednesday showing the moment a car was driven into pedestrians earlier in the day in the worst attack in London since 2005.

Five people were killed and about 40 injured after a car ploughed into pedestrians and a suspected Islamist-inspired attacker stabbed a policeman close to Britain's parliament.

The dead, in what police called a "marauding terrorist attack," included the assailant and the policeman he stabbed. The other three victims were among those hit by the car as it sped across Westminster Bridge before crashing into railings just outside parliament.

It was the deadliest attack in London since four British Islamists killed 52 commuters and themselves in suicide bombings on the city's transport system in July 2005, in London's worst peacetime attack.