UK police treating Parliament car crash as terrorist incident

Bloomberg

UK police launched a counter-terrorism inquiry after a car crashed into barriers outside Parliament on Tuesday. Three people were injured in the incident, which bears similarities to a deadly attack last year.
The driver, a man in his late 20s, was arrested at the scene on suspicion of terrorist offenses, the Metropolitan Police said. Though he has not yet been identified, the man is not thought to be previously known to security services, according to Neil Basu, the UK’s counter-terrorism police chief.
“This appears to be a deliberate act,” Basu said in a televised press conference in London. “We are treating it as a terrorist incident.”
At 0737hrs today, a car was in collision with barriers outside the Houses of Parliament. The male driver of the car was detained by officers at the scene. A number of pedestrians have been injured. Officers remain at the scene. We will issue further info when we have it.
London is used to living with terrorism, and the threat level is currently at the second-highest level or ‘severe,’ meaning an attack is regarded to be highly likely, according to UK security services. The highest
level —‘critical’—is designated when a terrorist attack is expected imminently.
Television pictures from the incident on Tuesday showed armed police surrounding a silver saloon car that had hit heavy barriers outside St. Stephen’s Gate, the main public entrance to Parliament. Its hood was crumpled and its airbags had been deployed. The police said nobody else was in the vehicle, and no weapons had been recovered.