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Five people are dead and about 40 are injured.

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An armed attacker was shot dead by police after he fatally stabbed an officer.

Two more victims were killed when a vehicle mowed them down on Westminster Bridge.

PM Theresa May was at Parliament during the attack, but she is safe.

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LONDON — A knife-wielding man went on a deadly rampage in the heart of Britain’s seat of power Wednesday, plowing a car into pedestrians on London’s Westminster Bridge before stabbing a police officer to death inside the gates of Parliament. Five people were killed, including the assailant, and 40 others were injured in what Prime Minister Theresa May condemned as a “sick and depraved terrorist attack.”

Lawmakers, lords, staff and visitors were locked down after the man was shot by police within the perimeter of Parliament, just metres from entrances to the building itself and in the shadow of the iconic Big Ben clock tower. He died, as did three pedestrians on the bridge, and the police officer.