Trudeau recalls attack in Ottawa

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the incident outside the British Parliament is a “cowardly attack” on democracy around the world. He said Canada stood ready to help Britain in any way it could after the attack.

Trudeau said the attack in London is “all too familiar” to MPs who were on Parliament Hill in October 2014, when a gun-toting Michael Zehaf-Bibeau stormed into Centre Block after killing a soldier standing on guard at the nearby National War Memorial.

Zehaf-Bibeau was killed outside the Library of Parliament in a shootout with police and parliamentary security officers.