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London terror attack: third victim named as US tourist Kurt Cochran | London terror attack: third victim named as US tourist Kurt Cochran |
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3.29pm GMT | |
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Westminster attacker named as Khalid Masood | |
Police have named the attacker as Khalid Masood. He was 52, born in Kent and detectives believe he was most recently living in the West Midlands. | |
3.24pm GMT | |
15:24 | |
The Conservative MP Tom Pursglove witnessed the shooting of the attack from close up yesterday. He has put a statement about this on his Facebook page. Here’s an extract. | |
I was witness to part of the attack and saw, at close proximity, the assailant being shot by a police officer, in what was a great act of bravery in order to protect the lives of others. This was obviously a very unpleasant and upsetting experience for all those who bore witness to it and I was particularly grateful to the prime minister who took the time to call me last night - this was extremely kind of her, given all that was going on. | |
3.22pm GMT | |
15:22 | |
President Trump has tweeted a tribute to the American killed in the attack yesterday. | |
A great American, Kurt Cochran, was killed in the London terror attack. My prayers and condolences are with his family and friends. | |
3.18pm GMT | |
15:18 | |
Amber Jamieson | |
Rightwing commentators have wasted no time in appearing on US media and using the Westminster attack to further their political agendas. | |
Nigel Farage has appeared twice on US television already, today arguing that the London attacks prove Donald Trump is right on hardline immigration and anti-Muslim policy. | |
“It seems to me our political leaders really ought to start saying sorry,” the former Ukip leader told Tucker Carlson on Fox News on Thursday morning. | |
Surely this is the big takeout: when Donald Trump tries to makes America safer, when Donald Trump tries to make sure that these scenes we’ve had in Paris, Brussels and Berlin and now London aren’t repeated in America, we have people on Fifth Avenue and behind me in Westminster out on the streets protesting. | |
What these politicians have done for the last 15 years may well affect how we live in this country for the next 100 years. | |
He appeared on Fox News on Wednesday night, just hours after the attack, making a similar point. “We’ve made some terrible mistakes in this country,” Farage told Sean Hannity on Fox News. “When Donald Trump tries to put in place vetting measures, he’s doing it to protect your country,” he added. | |
He wasn’t the only hardline conservative to appear in the US media. the Daily Mail columnist Katie Hopkins also turned up on Carlson’s Fox show, echoing Farage’s xenophobic rhetoric. | |
We’re a country that spends so much time tiptoeing around the cultures that refuse to join us and not enough time defending the culture they’ve chosen to join, but because I say those things I am widely hated for those views. People are cowed, people are afraid and people are not united. | |
UK writers on US alt-right websites also used the London terror attacks to incite hatred against Muslims. | |
In a video on InfoWars, which published conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton’s health during the 2016 election, writer Paul Joseph Watson argued that it was time to “acknowledge that Islam is not a religion of peace and in serious need of reform”. | |
On Breitbart News, whose former executive chair Steve Bannon is now one of the most influential advisers to the president, the UK executive editor James Delingpole wrote a column declaring that Islamic terror attacks could end western liberal values. | |
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Jonathan Bartley, the Green party co-leader, has accused Ukip of trying to exploit the attack to divide communities. Responding to the statement from the Ukip leader, Paul Nuttall (see 1.55pm), Bartley said: | |
Every time you think Ukip can’t sink any lower, they do. It is abhorrent that Paul Nuttall is trying to capitalise on this terrible tragedy to create division between communities. | |
Just a brief look around him would have revealed to Nuttall a resilient multicultural society coming together to reject violence. Trying to blame certain communities for this horrific incident is politics at its worst – the Ukip leader should be utterly ashamed. | |
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A tragic detail has emerged about the French school whose students were caught up in the attack on Westminster Bridge. | |
Estelle Rouat, a pupil at the Lycée Saint-Joseph in Brittany, was one of the 89 victims who lost their lives in the massacre at the Bataclan concert hall during the Paris terror attacks of November 2015. | |
Three of the pupils were injured in yesterday’s attack, two seriously. A group of 36 year 11 and 12 pupils from the lycée was walking from parliament on to Westminster Bridge when they were struck by the attacker’s car. With the exception of the three wounded, all were due to fly home on Thursday. | |
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At least 100 people have attended a memorial in Spain to commemorate Aysha Frade, who was also killed in the terror attack on Wednesday, the Press Association reports. | |
A minute’s silence was held in the Galician municipality of Betanzos, where the British national’s family originates and where she spent her summers. | |
Betanzos councillor Andres Hermida said the community in Spain was in “enormous pain” and shrouded in an “atmosphere of sadness”. He told the Press Association: | |
We had a minute’s silence in the Plaza de la Constitucion outside the local government building and we have declared three days of mourning, which will include flying the flag at half mast until Saturday. | |
About 100 people attended despite the rainy weather. | |
Frade, who worked in administration at independent sixth-form school DLD College London, in Westminster, is understood to have been 43 and married with two daughters. | |
Reports said she had left work and was crossing Westminster Bridge as part of her usual routine when she was hit by the car. | |
Her family is well known in Betanzos, where older sisters Silvia and Michelle run the Notting Hill English language academy. According to Hermida: | |
The sisters suspended classes at the academy yesterday afternoon when they received the news and they left for London, we believe with their mother. | |
Aysha spent her summers here and had many friends here since her childhood, so we are all very affected. | |
You never think things like this will happen to you and it’s horrible luck when it happens at all, but when it happens close then it hurts that much more. | |
It’s an immense tragedy and an enormous pain – there is a big sadness in Betanzos. | |
We have condemned the terrorist attack and promised our support to the family. | |
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14:49 | 14:49 |
Fumio Kishida, the Japanese foreign minister, has issued a message of condolence to the UK after yesterday’s attack and condemned “such inhuman and despicable acts of terrorism”. | Fumio Kishida, the Japanese foreign minister, has issued a message of condolence to the UK after yesterday’s attack and condemned “such inhuman and despicable acts of terrorism”. |
2.48pm GMT | 2.48pm GMT |
14:48 | 14:48 |
These are some of the floral tributes in Westminster and next to the National Police Memorial. | These are some of the floral tributes in Westminster and next to the National Police Memorial. |
2.43pm GMT | 2.43pm GMT |
14:43 | 14:43 |
My colleague, Peter Walker, has pictures of some of the floral tributes that are being left on Westminster Bridge now that it has reopened. | |
With Westminster Bridge now open, the floral tributes are arriving. Some moving messages. pic.twitter.com/0TCigitTsi | With Westminster Bridge now open, the floral tributes are arriving. Some moving messages. pic.twitter.com/0TCigitTsi |
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Rajeev Syal | Rajeev Syal |
An army veteran who was among the first on the scene of the Westminster attack has told how he tried to save the life of murdered police officer Keith Palmer. | |
Tony Davis, who is now a GB Boxing coach, jumped over a barrier and tried to intervene moments after the officer was attacked. | Tony Davis, who is now a GB Boxing coach, jumped over a barrier and tried to intervene moments after the officer was attacked. |
Davis, from Darlington, told ITV’s This Morning he was leaving parliament following a press event with a group of boxers when he saw the attack taking place. | Davis, from Darlington, told ITV’s This Morning he was leaving parliament following a press event with a group of boxers when he saw the attack taking place. |
There were people running, coming round towards the gate. | There were people running, coming round towards the gate. |
All of a sudden I saw a large chap brandishing two knives come through the gates and start attacking the policeman. | All of a sudden I saw a large chap brandishing two knives come through the gates and start attacking the policeman. |
At that point instinct kicked in, I leapt over the fence because that guy needed assistance. | |
The police were holding their ground and that is when poor Keith got attacked. You start moving back with adrenaline pumping in. | The police were holding their ground and that is when poor Keith got attacked. You start moving back with adrenaline pumping in. |
At this point the assailant was coming towards us and I recall, out of the corner of my eye, one of the marksmen coming out and putting three rounds in him. | |
Appearing on the show without shoes on because they are still being cleaned, Davis told how he rushed in to give the officer CPR, saying: | |
I just knew he was in a great deal of difficulty. Everything happened so quick, but my natural instinct was to get over there and give some assistance if need be. | |
Initially, when he fell to the ground I tried to have a look at him and put him in the recovery position and check his pulse. | |
Davis said Palmer had wounds to his head, arm and another under his rib cage. | Davis said Palmer had wounds to his head, arm and another under his rib cage. |
About 90 seconds into it another guy called Mike came and joined in and at this time there were lots of police around, Keith’s colleagues. Three and a half minutes was when the MP [Tobias Ellwood] came in and sort of took over CPR. | About 90 seconds into it another guy called Mike came and joined in and at this time there were lots of police around, Keith’s colleagues. Three and a half minutes was when the MP [Tobias Ellwood] came in and sort of took over CPR. |
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