Wednesday night, Officers were stormed a flat in Birminghamwith West Midlands Police directing inquiries about the operation to the Metropolitan Police.
The Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said the working assumption is that the Westminster attack is linked to an Islamic terrorism.
Sir Michael said: "They have been working right through the night, looking into his background, how he got hold of the vehicle, where the vehicle has been in the last day or two, and who may, or may not, have helped him."
Police confirmed that four people died including PC Keith Palmer and the attacker (Picture: Reuters)
Acting deputy Met Police Mark Rowley said: "It is our believe that the attacker acted alone during the Westminster attack yesterday and was inspired by international terrorism. To be explicit – we have no specific information about further threats to the public at this time."
A total of 29 people were killed in the attack (Picture: Reuters)
Police previously said that five people had died in the attack, however that number has been revised down to four and a total of 29 people have been injured and seven of them are in a critical condition. Police said that a man woman in her 40s and a man in his 50s had both been killed.
PC Keith Palmer, the police officer who was killed, a member of the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Squad. He was killed as he tried to stop the attacker at around 2.30pm yesterday.
The woman has been identified as Aysha Frade, a Spanish teacher on her way to pick her two children up from school. The suspect, who was armed with two knives, injured around 40 people as he mowed down pedestrians with a car on Westminster Bridge before crashing at the railings in front of Parliament.
Police refused to say whether it was connected to the London terror attack (Picture: Caters)
Police at the scene in Birmingham where a flat has been raided (Picture: Caters)
Bursting through the gate to the Palace of Westminster, he stabbed Pc Palmer before being shot dead by armed officers.
Theresa May praised the bravery of police officers on Wednesday night as it was announced Westminster would attempt to run as smoothly as normal.
In a statement from Downing Street, the Prime Minister said: ‘Any attempt to defeat those values through violence and terror is doomed to failure.
‘And Londoners – and others from around the world who have come here to visit this great city – will get up and go about their day as normal.
‘They will board their trains, they will leave their hotels, they will walk these streets, they will live their lives.
‘And we will all move forward together, never giving in to terror and never allowing the voices of hate and evil to drive us apart.’
Donald Trump was among world leaders to offer their support.
Shortly after 1.30am UK time, the US president tweeted: ‘Spoke to UK Prime Minister Theresa May today to offer condolences on the terrorist attack in London. She is strong and doing very well.’
Counter-terror detectives will continue searching for clues to how an armed attacker brought destruction to London.
Several people have been arrested as a result of the raid in Birmingham (Picture: SWNS)
(Picture: SWNS)
Speaking outside Scotland Yard on Wednesday night, Acting Deputy Commissioner Mark Rowley, the Met’s senior anti-terror officer, said police believe the suspect was ‘inspired by international terrorism’, and they believe they know who he was.
Paying tribute to Pc Palmer, who had served the police for 15 years, Mr Rowley said: ‘Today in Westminster we saw tragic events unfold, and our thoughts are with those who lost loved ones, those who were injured and all those affected by this attack.
‘One of those who died today was a police officer, Pc Keith Palmer, a member of our parliamentary and diplomatic protection command. Keith, aged 48, had 15 years’ service and was a husband and father.
‘He was someone who left for work today expecting to return home at the end of his shift, and he had every right to expect that would happen.’
The attack has delayed the Queen’s planned visit to the new headquarters of the Metropolitan Police.
A picture taken through the door of the flat in Hagley Road, Birmingham (Picture: SWNS)
A Buckingham Palace spokesman said the decision had been taken to postpone the engagement in light of the attack.
Stories of heroism and bravery emerged from the incident, which brought central London to a standstill and closed transport networks around the capital shortly after 2.30pm on Wednesday.
Paramedics fought to save Pc Palmer, and his attacker, on the floor of the cobbled courtyard in front of Parliament, with Foreign Office minister Tobias Ellwood among those who rushed to help.
Mr Ellwood, who lost his brother in the Bali bombing, could be seen pumping the officer’s chest then standing above him, his hands and face smeared with blood.
Investigations continue today near the Houses of Parliament (Picture: Reuters)
Terror struck at the heart of British democracy yesterday (Picture: PA)
Armed officers, some in plain clothes and wearing balaclavas, swarmed around the yard feet from where MPs had earlier attended Prime Minister’s Questions.
The knifeman’s attack left a trail of destruction as paramedics tended to victims on the bridge and at the gate.
One woman hit by the attacker’s car before he reached Parliament was confirmed dead by a doctor at St Thomas’ Hospital. Others on the bridge suffered ‘catastrophic injuries’.
Another woman who fell into the Thames was rescued and given urgent medical treatment on a nearby pier.
A party of French schoolchildren were among those targeted on the bridge, while four students from Edge Hill University in Ormskirk were also hurt – two described as ‘walking wounded’, and another couple said to have minor injuries.
Romanian and South Korean tourists were also caught up in the tragedy.
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