At least four people were killed and some 40 others injured in London’s terror attack last night (22.3.17), when an assailant ploughed his vehicle into pedestrians along Westminster Bridge, which is right next to the British parliament, after which he stepped out of the vehicle and stabbed a policeman to death before getting shot and killed by security forces stationed at the scene.
The attack took place on the first anniversary of the terror attacks by Islamist militants that killed 32 people in the Belgian capital, Brussels. Even though British security sources identified the suspect as an Islamist-inspired attacker, Britain’s most senior counter-terrorism officer stressed that the attack appears to be inspired by international terrorism, but declined to offer more information on the identity of the attacker or to declare the attack to be Islamic terrorism. “I think it is a great thing that Israel is always very close to the British people, and we all try to fight terror around the world. And I think what happened tonight in London is a great shame and I am very proud that we put here on our building, of the Mayor of Tel Aviv, the English flag. I am absolutely emotional about it and I feel very strongly for the British people and we are with them,” Mark Rowley, British Counter-terrorism Chief said.