Police arrest two more over British parliament attack

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Police arrest two more over British parliament attack

 

A woman looks at floral tributes laid in Westminster the day after a attack in London, Britain, March 23, 2017. REUTERS/Hannah McKay

 

LONDON (Reuters) - British police said they had made two further significant arrests in the investigation into the attack on London's parliament and gave the birth name of the man behind the assault as Adrian Russell Ajao.

 

Britain's top anti-terrorism officer, Mark Rowley, said police had nine people in custody after the attack on Wednesday which killed five people including the assailant.

 

Police had said the man behind the attack was British-born Muslim covert Khalid Masood, who used several aliases, and that they were trying to establish if others had directed him.

 

"Our investigation focuses on understanding his motivation, his operation and his associates," Rowley said.

 

"Whilst there is still no evidence of further threats, you'll understand our determination is to find out if either he acted totally alone, inspired perhaps by terrorist propaganda, or if others have encouraged, supported or directed him.

 

Rowley said police had made two further "significant" arrests overnight, one in the West Midlands and one in the north west of the country.

 

"We now have nine people remaining in custody, and one woman has been released on bail," he said.

 

Rowley said the attacker, who ploughed down pedestrians when he sped across Westminster Bridge before fatally stabbing an unarmed policeman, had injured at least 50 people in total. Two are still in a critical condition, and one person is considered to have life-threatening injuries.

 

(Reporting by Kate Holton and David Milliken; editing by Guy Faulconbridge)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-3-24

[PaddyDaddy]

All due respects to the dead and injured but why is it an attack on Parliament. It is pure & simple an attack on innocent people.

 

[joebrown]

6 hours ago, PaddyDaddy said:

All due respects to the dead and injured but why is it an attack on Parliament. It is pure & simple an attack on innocent people.

 

I believe the assailant was shot dead whilst trying to enter the Houses of Parliament.

[daveAustin]

6 hours ago, PaddyDaddy said:

All due respects to the dead and injured but why is it an attack on Parliament. It is pure & simple an attack on innocent people.

 

Innocents can be attacked anywhere. Why do you think he did it where he did it? He likely wanted to get in there and knife MPs.

[geriatrickid]

17 minutes ago, daveAustin said:

Innocents can be attacked anywhere. Why do you think he did it where he did it? He likely wanted to get in there and knife MPs.

Unfortunately, we will soon be treated to multiple snide remarks about that aspect.

Meanwhile, that photograph of the Conservative MP administering heart massage during CPR is going to stick many people's memories.

The current outpouring of emotion, particularly the  insincere comments and crocodile tears from certain groups is so typical. Instead of the hand wringing and tsk tsking, it's time to call out the communities and groups who  promote such activity and who do not take the  responsible measures to both prevent and to stop such attacks.

[dunroaming]

All those arrested have now been released except for two.  At the moment the police are still trying to establish if he was acting alone or if he had accomplices.  The man worked in Saudi Arabia about ten years ago and it is said that it was probably then that he converted to Islam.  That doesn't mean that it was then that he was radicalised though.  We all have easy access to vehicles and if you are going to use one as a weapon along with a knife (found for sale in every corner shop) then you can see how hard it is to predict possible attacks of these lone wolves.