Man Arrested In London After Parliament Car Crash, Pedestrians Injured
City of London Police car in London, England. Photo: André Gustavo Stumpf.
A man has been arrested on suspicion of “terrorist offenses” after crashing a car into security barriers outside Britain’s Parliament and injuring several pedestrians, London police say.
London’s Metropolitan police said on August 14 that they are treating the car crash as a terrorist attack, and that the Met’s Counter-Terrorism Command was leading the investigation.
“The male driver of the car was detained by officers at the scene,” the Metropolitan Police said on Twitter on August 14.
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