POLICE: Car that mowed down cyclists in London being treated as a terrorist attack

This morning a car mowed down at least 15 cyclists and pedestrians on the Westminster bridge in London before crashing into a security barriers outside the parliament. The car was reportedly going about 50 mph when it hit the barriers. Three people are said to be injured.

Police are now treating it as a terrorist attack:

DAILY MAIL – This is the horrifying moment a suspected terrorist used a Ford Fiesta as a weapon to hit at least 15 cyclists and pedestrians at up to 50mph before narrowly missing two police officers as it ploughed into barriers outside the Houses of Parliament today.

The Westminster terror suspect, a black man in his late twenties now refusing to co-operate with detectives, is said to be from the Midlands and was not known to MI5 or police.

Today he looked dazed as he was dragged from the smoking silver Ford Fiesta by around a dozen armed officers who had their rifles trained on him.

A ‘loud bang’ followed by screams echoed around Parliament Square at 7.30am this morning and CCTV uncovered by the BBC shows the car swerve the wrong way down the road and ‘intentionally’ veer through crowds before smashing into a security barrier.

Two uniformed police officers manning the checkpoint designed to withstand a high speed lorry attack are shown diving away and detectives are investigating if they were the true targets of the suspected terror attack.

Three people were injured and one female cyclist is being treated for serious but not life-threatening injuries in hospital, which MailOnline understands is a broken hip.

Geoffrey Woodman, 27, from Battersea, heard a ‘loud screech’ and told MailOnline: ‘It [the Ford Fiesta] cut out in front of us through the red light on the wrong side of the road. It swerved left and hit the lady two bikes to my left. Its windscreen hit her quite hard. One slight turn of the wheel and it would have taken me out. It was chaos’.

This is the video the Daily Mail posted that shows the car from a distance running into the barrier:

The UK’s anti-terrorism chief, Neil Basu, explains what happened and says they are treating it as a terrorist attack:


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