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The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Thursday for an attack by a man who plowed an SUV into pedestrians on a crowded London bridge and then stabbed a police officer to death on the grounds of Britain’s Parliament.
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29 MINUTES AGO
Britain’s Parliament observed a minute of silence Thursday to remember a police officer and two civilians killed a day earlier in an attack at the heart of London, while authorities raided homes in central England to search for evidence.
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| London attacker was British-born, had been investigated for ‘violent extremism’ |
| Prime Minister Theresa May said that the ‘working assumption is that the attacker was inspired by Islamist ideology.’ She added that Britain’s security services had identified the culprit as ‘a peripheral figure’ in an earlier probe. One of the three people killed was identified as a mother-of-two who was hit by a bus as she fled from the attack on Westminster Bridge. She was on her way to pick up her children from school. |
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