Toll of London Attack Is Global for an Assailant Born in Britain -
By DAN BILEFSKY, KIMIKO de FREYTAS-TAMURA, HANNAH OLIVENNES and CEYLAN YEGINSUMARCH 23, 2017
LONDON — The roster of the dead and wounded spanned the globe: a veteran Scotland Yard constable,
a Mormon couple from Utah, South Korean tourists, French high schoolers and Romanian lovers.
“We are not afraid, and our resolve will never waver in the face of terrorism.” She called the violence “an attack on free people everywhere.”
The police say a 52-year-old British man, Khalid Masood, was the attacker who left four people dead
and dozens injured near British Parliament on Wednesday.
At the United Nations, where the Security Council observed a minute of silence, Britain’s foreign secretary, Boris Johnson,
said, “The world is united to defeat the people who launched this attack and to defeat their bankrupt and odious ideology.”
Even as the British capital returned to its daily rhythms,
and as Parliament resumed business, police officers were trying to learn whether they had missed signs of Mr. Masood’s radicalization.
Keith Palmer, Aysha Frade, Kurt Cochran — an American —
and a 75-year-old man, later identified as Leslie Rhodes, died in the terrorist attack in London.
Mr. Masood plowed a rented Hyundai sport utility vehicle through pedestrians on the Westminster Bridge, killing two
and injuring at least 40; crashed the vehicle into a fence; and then emerged brandishing knives to fatally stab the constable before other police officers shot and killed him.