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7 ARRESTS OVER LONDON’S TERROR ATTACK
    2017-03-24  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

    POLICE investigating the deadliest terror attack in central London in 12 years have arrested seven people and searched six addresses, Britain’s most senior counterterror police officer said Thursday.

    Inquiries are continuing in London, Birmingham and other parts of the country, Mark Rowley said.

    Rowley revised the number of dead down by one to three. The victims were a police officer protecting Parliament, a woman in her mid-40s and a man in his mid-50s, Rowley said.

    The attacker, who rammed a car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge before attempting to storm the Houses of Parliament, was also shot dead at the scene.

    Twenty-nine people were treated in hospital, seven of whom are still in a critical condition, Rowley said. There were also a number of “walking wounded,” he said.

    A U.K. official told CNN the working theory was that the attack was ISIS “inspired or copycat,” but the authorities were “still investigating.”

    President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang have sent messages of condolences to the British side.

    In a message of condolences to British Queen Elizabeth II, Xi stated that terrorism is the common enemy of the international community and China is willing to strengthen cooperation with Britain and the international community to safeguard security in China, Britain, as well as the world as a whole.

    Rowley told journalists late Wednesday that police believe the attack was an act of “Islamist-related terrorism,” and indicated they knew the identity of the assailant but were not releasing his name.

    Overnight, police in the city of Birmingham in central England raided an apartment, but it was not clear whether it was linked to the London attack.

    A number of tourists were among 40 people hurt in the assault, including five South Koreans and three French high school students, according to officials from both countries. One Australian had been hospitalized, officials there said. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said one Chinese tourist was slightly injured.

    It was the first mass-casualty terrorist attack in Britain since 2005, when 52 people and four attackers died in the July 7 bomb attacks on the London public transportation system.

    British Prime Minister Theresa May described the attack as “sick and depraved.” She said attempts to defeat through violence the values Parliament represents would be “doomed to failure.”(SD-Xinhua)

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