The UK Parliament is in lockdown after a police officer was stabbed and a dozen people mowed down on Westminster Bridge.
Commons leader David Lidington said a "police officer has been stabbed" and the "alleged assailant was shot by armed police" following a "serious incident".
There are also reports of a dozen people injured on Westminster Bridge after a car attempted to run down a number of pedestrians.
The Prime Minister was said to have been voting in the division lobby and was escorted out of the building by a plain clothes policeman and put in a car. Sky News understands she has now left the area.
Staff inside Parliament have been told to stay inside their offices.
An air ambulance landed in Parliament Square minutes after the incidents and medics were treating two people at the scene.
Mr Lidington said: "An air ambulance is currently attending the scene to remove the casualties.
"There are also reports of further violent incidents in the vicinity of the Palace of Westminster but I hope colleagues on all sides will appreciate that it'd be wrong of me to go into further details until we have confirmation from the police and from the House security authorities about what is going on."
A woman in Parliament Square at the time of the shooting said: "We literally just heard shots and then saw people running, and we went to have a look.
"I saw a body, they were working on the floor. They were just inside the gates.
"He had one gunshot wound to the right side of his chest. I don't know if he was dead or alive, but people were working on him."
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