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| People stand near a crashed car and an injured person lying on the ground, right, on Bridge Street near the Houses of Parliament in London, Wednesday, March 22, 2017. Britain has been targeted Wednesday by what authorities are calling a terrorist incident, after vehicle mowed down pedestrians on London's Westminster Bridge, killing at least one woman and leaving others injured, around the same time as a knife-wielding attacker stabbed a police officer and was shot on the grounds outside Britain's Parliament. / James West via AP-Yonhap |
By Lee Han-soo
Five South Korean tourists were injured in a bloody terror attack near the Houses of Parliament in central London on Wednesday (local time). Five people died and 40 were hurt.
The attack started when a man mowed down pedestrians with a car on Westminster Bridge. He then fatally stabbed a policeman outside the parliament building before being shot dead.
British Prime Minister Theresa May called the attack "sick and depraved."
"We will all move forward together, never giving in to terror and never allowing the voices of hate and evil to drive us apart," May said outside 10 Downing Street in London.
One of the five Korean tourists is in a critical condition.
"Four South Korean tourists sustained light injuries and the other had serious injuries," a tour agency official told Yonhap. "They are now being treated at two hospitals."
The badly injured tourist was identified as a woman surnamed Park, 67. She was injured when she fell after being pushed by people fleeing the scene, according to officials at South Korea's Embassy in London.
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