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IS claim responsibility for Westminster terror attack

So-called Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the Westminster terror attack which left four dead, including a police officer and the assailant.

Here is what we know so far:

  • Among the dead are police officer Keith Palmer and the assailant 29 people remain in hospital receiving treatment
  • Mrs May said the attacker was a British citizen who was known to police and security services
  • Eight people have been arrested and raids have taken place in London, Birmingham and elsewhere
  • The attacker, armed with two large knives, mowed down pedestrians with his car on Westminster Bridge on Wednesday afternoon
  • The knifeman was shot dead moments later by another officer
  • Tributes are being paid across the region to the victims and those affected by the attack
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Democracy 'will not be thwarted' by terrorists, warns Lincolnshire MP

Martin Vickers, the Conservative MP for Cleethorpes.

An MP who fled from gunshots during the attack at Westminster has vowed the "democratic process will not be thwarted" by terrorism.

Martin Vickers, the Conservative MP for Cleethorpes, was walking through corridors towards Parliament with colleagues when they heard shots ring out.

He described how they were evacuated from the building by security officers who ordered them out.

We were walking through the corridors, the cloisters, as we know it, in the old part of the palace having come through the tunnel from our office on this side (Whitehall) of the main road.

We were heading towards the voting lobbies and what we now know was, I think it was, three shots rang out.

I was sort of 50 or 60 yards behind my colleagues who were heading in the same direction.

We heard what we now know were shots and colleagues in front of us turned and ran, presumably on the advice of the security services.

We were told to get out of the building...

Obviously it is a sad occasion, particularly for the casualties and their families.

The important thing is that the democratic process will not be thwarted by a terrorist act, if that is what it indeed is.

We will of course carry on.

– Martin Vickers, the Conservative MP for Cleethorpes
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