Woman died and several others have ‘severe injuries’ after the incident, which said to be a terror attack.
Radoslaw Sikorski posted a video to his Twitter account showing people lying with injuries in the road on Westminster Bridge. He said, he saw a senior fellow at Harvard Centre for European Studies, at least five people lying on the ground after being ‘mown down’ by a car.
"I heard what I thought what I thought was just a collision and then I looked through the window of the taxi and someone down, obviously in great distress," he told on an interview.
"Then I saw a second person down, and I started filming, then I saw three more people down, one of them bleeding profusely."
A line of red buses and several ambulances could be seen on Westminster Bridge.
A cyclist nearby saw the aftermath, said: "At the end of the embankment it appears as though there is an ambulance. It looks as if they are treating somebody. And just below, it looks like there may be another paramedic treating someone else."
Another witness said he saw a man in black attack a police officer outside Parliament before being shot two or three times as he tried to storm into the House of Commons.
Armed police respond outside Parliament during an incident on Westminster Bridge in London, Britain March 22, 2017 (Picture: Reuters)
"I saw a thick-set man in black clothes come through the gates into New Palace Yard, just below Big Ben," he told the BBC.
"He had something in his hand, it looked like a stick of some sort, and he was challenged by a couple of policemen in yellow jackets and one of the yellow-jacketed policemen fell down and we could see the man in black moving his arm in a way that suggested he was stabbing or striking the yellow-jacketed policeman. The other officer ran to get help and the man in black ran about 15 yards towards the entrance", he said.
He added: "As this attacker was running towards the entrance two plain-clothed guys with guns shouted at him what sounded like a warning, he ignored it and they shot two or three times and he fell.”
A man who is passing through Westminster Square also heard shots and at about the same time saw a car that seemed to have mounted the pavement outside Parliament.
Armed police react following a major incident outside the Houses of Parliament in central London, Britain 22 March 2017 (Picture: EPA)
Eyewitness Rick Longley saw a man stab a policeman. Fighting back tears he said: ‘We were just walking up to the station and there was a loud bang and a guy, someone, crashed a car and took some pedestrians out.
‘They were just laying there and then the whole crowd just surged around the corner by the gates just opposite Big Ben.
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