WESTMINSTER TERROR ATTACK
On 22 March 2017 a terrorist attack took place next to the Palace of Westminster in London, seat of the British Parliament. The attacker, 52-year-old Briton Khalid Masood, deliberately drove a car into pedestrians on the pavement along the south side of Westminster Bridge and Bridge Street, injuring more than 50 people, three of them fatally. After the car crashed into the perimeter fence of the Palace grounds, Masood abandoned it and ran into New Palace Yard where he fatally stabbed an unarmed police officer. He was then shot by an armed officer and died at the scene. Police stated Masood had an interest in jihad, but they had found no motive nor any link with any known terrorist organisation. seat siège / pedestrian piéton / pavement trottoir / to injure blesser / to crash into enfoncer, percuter / fence clôture / grounds ici, jardin / to stab poignarder / at the scene sur place.