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Armed police detain man outside British parliament
LONDON, Dec 11, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – Armed police detained a man on the
grounds of the British parliament on Tuesday, at almost exactly the same spot
where an attack occurred last year, an AFP photographer saw.
London’s Metropolitan Police did not immediately respond to a request for
information about the incident, while parliamentary authorities said police
were handling it.
The BBC cited police saying the incident was not terror-related.
In March last year, Khalid Masood, a British Muslim convert, rammed a car
into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge before fatally stabbing a policeman on
guard outside parliament.
The attack, which left five people dead and around 50 injured, ended only
when police shot the 52-year-old Masood dead.
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