British armed police have detained a man on suspicion of having a knife after he ran, shouting, towards one of the gates of the Westminster parliament in central London.
“The man – aged in his 30s – was arrested,” police said on Friday. A witness at the scene told Reuters the man ran towards one of the gates to parliament where a militant killed a policeman less than three months ago.
“You could tell he was suspicious, he was stood there fists clenched. He looked quite an angry geezer,” Bradley Allen, 19, told Reuters.
“We got seconds down the road and they had him on the floor, pinned. Police around him, telling everyone to move back.”
The incident occurred less than three months since a man drove a car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge, and then stabbed a policeman to death in the grounds of parliament, the first of three deadly attacks in Britain which has put the security services on high alert.
Another witness near parliament on Friday told…