{"id":300489,"date":"2017-03-24T14:51:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T13:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/eyewitness-relives-moment-she-came-face-to-face-with-westminster-attacker-rt-exclusive\/"},"modified":"2017-03-24T14:51:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T13:51:05","slug":"eyewitness-relives-moment-she-came-face-to-face-with-westminster-attacker-rt-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/eyewitness-relives-moment-she-came-face-to-face-with-westminster-attacker-rt-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyewitness relives moment she came face-to-face with Westminster attacker (RT EXCLUSIVE)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>        An eyewitness to the London terrorist attack says she came face-to-face with the assailant Khalid Masood after he had mown down people on Westminster Bridge. He was wielding two large knives and told her to \u201cstay away,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Lara Jamil had just left the RT studios on Wednesday when she heard a loud bang near Parliament.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAs I was crossing the road to go to the coffee shop, I heard a big crash, a big bang, and I looked behind me and a car just rampaged, drove over a boy. I thought it was a car accident. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI ran immediately to the boy to see how he is \u2013 I could see blood, head injury, he was shouting from the pure agony he was feeling at the time.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZNY08xwchtI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Jamil says she came into contact with a man who was telling her to <em>\u201cstay away.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI looked at him, I looked at his eyes and then his beard, and then he had two knives, [he was] telling me, \u2018Stay away, stay away.\u2019 So at that time I thought, \u2018This is not an accident. This is an attack.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"arcticle__read-more read-more\">\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/382152-mi5-inquiry-westminster-terror\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"read-more__cover\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.rt.com\/files\/2017.03\/thumbnail\/58d4ee3cc46188834d8b4572.jpg\" alt=\"\u00a9 Stefan Wermuth\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>\u201cOne of the things I saw in his eyes \u2013 pure blankness. Nothing. He\u2019s just killed a woman on the bridge \u2013 which I didn\u2019t know at the time \u2013 he nearly killed a boy, he was going to go and kill more, and be killed, and still you can see nothing in his eyes. Blankness \u2013 you don\u2019t see anger, sympathy , revenge, nothing,\u201d<\/em> she added.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI do feel lucky \u2026 I thought I was really lucky. He could have just stabbed me.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jamil says that after seeing Masood, she went to the other side of the road.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI didn\u2019t know where he went \u2026 I couldn\u2019t see.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThere was a shop just next to me, two guys talking, in a booth for souvenirs, selling souvenirs. And they were saying that it was an accident. I said to them, \u2018No, it\u2019s not. It\u2019s an attack, he had knives in his hands. He is going to harm people.\u2019 They totally dismissed me, they could not believe it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cA few seconds [later] and we heard the bullets, the gunfire. So at that time I then ran to the boy to see how he is doing because I thought, \u2018Okay, the police have managed to shoot him.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The number of victims now stands at four following the death of Leslie Rhodes, 75, from south London, after his life support was turned off on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>The three other victims of the attack were police officer Keith Palmer, 48, teacher Aysha Frade, 43, and US citizen Kurt Cochran, 54.<\/p>\n<p>Masood was shot dead by armed police near the gates of Parliament.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/382172-eyewitness-westminster-attack-terror\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An eyewitness to the London terrorist attack says she came face-to-face with the assailant Khalid Masood after he had mown down people on Westminster Bridge. He was wielding two large knives and told her to \u201cstay away,\u201d she says. Lara Jamil had just left the RT studios on Wednesday when she heard a loud bang [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":300490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-300489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}