MP tries in vain to save cop

A BRITISH lawmaker who lost a brother in a terrorist bombing tried in vain Wednesday to resuscitate a police officer fatally attacked outside Parliament in London.

Tobias Ellwood, a New York-born British military veteran, was photographed kneeling near the officer’s body after attempting cardiopulmonary resuscitation, on him.

He rushed to the officer, Keith Palmer, 48, despite police instructions that he and fellow members of Parliament get to somewhere safe, fellow MP Adam Afriyie told the BBC.

Photos taken near the attack showed Ellwood — surrounded by paramedics and police officers — with blood on his face after attempting CPR.

“Tobias Ellwood is an absolute hero for what he did to help the policeman this afternoon!” fellow lawmaker Ben Howlett said on Twitter.

Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron told the BBC: “Today, Tobias gave MPs a good name. He was utterly heroic, pure and simple. He went above and beyond and did all he could to save a police officer.”

Ellwood had been nearby the scene at the time when an unidentified assailant is believed to have driven a car into a crowd of pedestrians, before crashing the vehicle and attacking the officer.

Ellwood, a Conservative Party member from Bournemouth since 2005, has also been a minister in Britain’s Foreign Office for the past 21/2 years.

He had already experienced the pain of terrorism firsthand when his brother died in the 2002 bombings in Bali, Indonesia, an atrocity that killed more than 200 people.

The attack was carried out by Jemaah Islamiyah, a group with ties to Al Qaeda.