Developing story: Assailant shot, dozen injured in incident at UK parliament"
An assailant was shot outside the British parliament by armed
police, the leader of the House of Commons said on Wednesday after loud
bangs were heard and a Reuters photographer saw at least a dozen injured
people on a nearby bridge.
A parliamentary official earlier said
two people had been shot outside parliament and the building was in lockdown. The House of Commons session was suspended and members of parliament who were in the chamber were told to remain there.
Police said they had been called to an incident at Westminster Bridge,
officers were on the scene and it was being treated as a firearms
incident.
A Reuters reporter inside the building said medical staff were treating two people inside the gates of the parliamentary estate.
Nearby Westminster underground train station was closed at the request of police.Photographs by Reuters staffer Toby Melville showed two people lying on Westminster Bridge, bleeding heavily
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