{UAH} BREAKING: Knifeman rams car into crowd at Parliament in London terror attack
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A 4x4 car mounted the pavement and ploughed into pedestrians crossing the busy Westminster Bridge beside London's Big Ben.
Parliament has been placed on lockdown with MPs locked inside and armed police carrying shields protecting the building.
Reports suggest that 12 people have been injured with one woman confirmed dead after the horrific attack.
Scotland Yard have confirmed that the attack is being treated as a "terrorist incident".
A "police officer has been stabbed" and the "alleged assailant was shot by armed police", Commons Leader David Lidington has told MPs.
Metropolitan police said they were called to a firearms incident on Westminster Bridge.
What sounds like Gunfire at the front of parliament. No idea what's going on.
— Tom Peck (@tompeck) March 22, 2017
"We were called at approx 2:40 pm to reports of an incident at Westminster Bridge. Being treated as a firearms incident - police on scene," the cops said on Twitter.
Pictures are emerging of multiple injured on Westminster Bridge with video showing hundreds running at the time of the attack.
Horror footage has surfaced reportedly moments after the car mowed down dozens people.
Eyewitnesses report that a woman was lying injured under a bus after the attack.
Others have said they saw several bodies lying in the River Thames, The Mirror Online reports.
An air ambulance arrived at the incident which comes on the anniversary of the Brussels terrorist bombing and a few days after the UK launched a Trump-style ban on large electronics onboard planes.
The attacker is described as a "middle-aged" Asian man who was spotted running with an eight-inch knife.
Eyewitnesses report hearing a loud bang, then screaming and shooting.
Quentin Letts said: "I saw a thick-set man in black clothes come through the gates into New Palace Yard, just below Big Ben," he told the BBC.
"He had something in his hand, it looked like a stick of some sort, and he was challenged by a couple of policemen in yellow jackets.
"And one of the yellow-jacketed policemen fell down and we could see the man in black moving his arm in a way that suggested he was stabbing or striking the yellow-jacketed policeman."
A Downing Street source declined to say where Prime Minister Theresa May was during the attack, but said she had not been involved.
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MPs are being evacuated from Parliament in groups of four, but bomb squads have now halted the evacuation due to a suspicious package in a vehicle outside.
Tourists have also been held in the London Eye ferris wheel while police deal with the situation.
David Lidington told MPs: "The alleged assailant was shot by armed police, an ambulance is currently attending the scene to remove the casualities.
"There are also reports of further violent incidents in the Palace of Westminster but it would be wrong of me to go into further details before confirmation from the police."
About five minutes we hard a bang, and then screams, from our office in the Palace of Westminster...
— Charlie Cooper (@CharlieCooper8) March 22, 2017
MPs and staff in the Parliament building sent messages to friends and family to let them know they were safe.
Labour MP Jon Trickett tweeted during the incident saying: "Democracy will not be intimidated by terror."
Dennis Burns described the chaotic scenes after the attack saying: "When I got inside I was wondering what the hell was going on and I saw dozens of panicked people running down the street.
"The first stream was around 30 people and the second stream was 70 people.
"It looked like they were running for their lives."
Another witness Rick Longley fought back tears as he described seeing the attacker stab a police officer.
He said: "We were just walking up to the station and there was a loud bang and a guy, someone, crashed a car and took some pedestrians out.
"They were just laying there and then the whole crowd just surged around the corner by the gates just opposite Big Ben.
"A guy came past my right shoulder with a big knife and just started plunging it into the policeman.
"I have never seen anything like that. I just can't believe what I just saw."
TfL have confirmed that Tube services at Westminster have been cancelled for the time being.
Eyewitnesses from the scene can send pictures or video to alex.hickson@dailystar.co.uk
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