Two men held over UK attacks,
Counterterrorism experts trying to establish if killer was a lone wolf.
Seven of the 11 people arrested since the London attack have been released with no further action, police said yesterday. The Metropolitan Police said two men remain in custody, while two women have been released on bail until late March.
Police are trying to establish whether attacker Khalid Masood acted alone.
The Saudi Arabian Government has confirmed that Masood worked in the country twice as an English teacher between 2005 and 2009.
Four people were killed and 50 injured after Masood drove his car into people on Westminster Bridge and stabbed an unarmed police officer guarding Parliament.
PC Keith Palmer, 48, died of his wounds and Masood was shot dead by police.
The other three killed were Londoner Leslie Rhodes, 75, US tourist Kurt Cochran, 54, and mother-oftwo Aysha Frade, 43.
Police said their investigation into the attack would focus on Masood’s “motivation, preparation and his associates”.
Prime Minister Theresa May said Masood was “investigated in relation to concerns about violent extremism” years ago. But she called him “a peripheral figure.”
Isis (Islamic State) described Masood as “a soldier,” claiming responsibility for the attack.
Britain’s top counterterrorism officer, Mark Rowley said police are investigating whether he “acted totally alone inspired by terrorist propaganda, or if others have encouraged, supported or directed him.”
Of the more than 50 people injured in Masood’s rampage, 17 were still being treated last night. Doctors said two were in a critical state, with one in a life-threatening condition.
The injured came from 12 countries. In addition to Britons, they included schoolchildren from France, a Romanian couple, a Portuguese man who worked locally, and visitors from as far away as China.
A British police officer mowed down is said to have suffered “lifechanging injuries” and has undergone eight hours of surgery.
Constable Kris Aves, 35, was walking across Westminster Bridge with two police colleagues “when the car came from out of nowhere”.
Constable Roger Smith, in his early 50s, suffered leg injuries and Constable Bradley Bryant was treated for more minor injuries.
Meanwhile, relatives of Masood’s first wife told the Daily Mail he was a “psychopath” and they divorced after only three months of marriage.
Masood married Muslim Farzana Malik in 2004 after his second release from jail, following his frenzied knife attack on scaffolder Danny Smith, 35, in Eastbourne.
However he was “controlling” and “violent” towards her and she ended up fleeing to friends in Middlesbrough to escape him.
The British Government has honoured Foreign Affair Minister Tobias Ellwood who battled to save the life of Constable Palmer, giving him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
Ellwood has been named to the Privy Council, a committee of senior lawmakers, judges and others that advises the Queen, along with Security Minister Ben Wallace, who helped co-ordinate the government response to Thursday’s attack.