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'A guy came past me with a big knife & plunged it into the cop'

Terrified witnesses on Wednesday described watching a terrorist using a 4x4 as a weapon sending pedestrians flying like skittles — including one thrown into the Thames — before 'plunging' a seven-inch knife into a policeman.

The terror suspect, an Asian man in his forties, crashed into Parliament's railings and then rushed the gates and stabbed the Met officer before an plain-clothes officer then shot the assailant three officers.

One victim of the car attack was left floating face down in the Thames but was pulled from the river alive and the bridge above was strewn with the victims of the terror hit and run.
Witnesses said the aftermath like a scene from a 'Hollywood disaster movie' and two people dead and more than 12 people are injured including some with catastrophic injuries.
The killer driver aimed at a group of tourist taking selfies in front of Big Ben, one person on the bridge said.

Eyewitness Rick Longley described the attack.
He said: "We were just walking up to the station and there was a loud bang and a guy, someone, crashed a car and took some pedestrians out.
"They were just laying there and then the whole crowd just surged around the corner by the gates just opposite Big Ben.

"A guy came past my right shoulder with a big knife and just started plunging it into the policeman.

"I have never seen anything like that. I just can't believe what I just saw.'

Steve Voake, 55, was walking across the Westminster Bridge towards the South Bank when he saw the aftermath.
He said he saw at least two bodies lying on the road and one in the water.

"I saw a trainer lying in the road and when I looked more closely I saw that there were a couple of bodies the other side of the road," he said.

"And when I looked over the side there was another body lying in the water with blood all around it."

Eyewitness Rob Lyon, 34, from Rugby, who works in marketing, said: "I heard a wheel definitely hit a kerb and quite a large crunch noise, I looked up and saw a car clearly hitting people as it came towards me.

"A colleague I was with, I heard him shout but I just instinctively jumped off the pavement and I could see people getting hit. Then the car just carried on up the bridges and I just looked round me in shock.
"I just saw people being hit by a car at speed, it was harrowing. I just sort of went into shock mode.

"I just looked around me and couldn't really work out what had happened."
Kiersten Hallow said: "We're literally opposite where the car plowed into the fencing." Agencies
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