Police say incident outside UK parliament being treated as terrorism

A man has been detained on suspicion of terrorist offenses, British police said on Tuesday after a car hit pedestrians and crashed into a barrier outside the UK parliament.

Police said they were treating the incident as a terrorism-related and the driver, aged in his late 20s, was in custody at a south London police station.

"He was arrested on suspicion of terrorist offences," the Metropolitan Police said in a statement. "There was nobody else in the vehicle, which remains at the scene and is being searched. No weapons have been recovered at this stage."

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