50 people of 12 nationalities injured as a result of London attack

Five people have died, with 50 injured, in a terror attack near the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday, teh Telegraph reports.

Here’s everything we know about the victims, the attacker and the police investigation.

Attacker Khalid Masood, 52, killed four pedestrians and injured about 50 others as he mowed down members of the public with a car on Westminster Bridge at about 2:40pm on Wednesday.

He then crashed his hire Hyundai into the railings in front of Parliament before bursting through the gate to the Palace of Westminster with two large knives where he fatally stabbed unarmed Pc Keith Palmer, 48.

He was shot dead moments later by another police officer.

Three members of the public died following the car rampage on Westminster Bridge. They were mother-of-two Aysha Frade, US tourist Kurt Cochran and Leslie Rhodes, 75, from Streatham, south London.

Pc Palmer and Masood also died despite attempts by paramedics to save them both.

At least 50 people of 12 different nationalities were injured, including 12 Britons, three French children, two Romanians, four South Koreans, two Greeks, and one each from Germany, Poland, Ireland, China, Italy and the United States.