Armed police detain a man on the grounds of the British parliament, at almost exactly the same spot where an attack occurred last year, according to an AFP photographer.
London’s Metropolitan Police does not immediately respond to a request for information about the incident, while parliamentary authorities say police are handling it.
The BBC cites police saying the incident is not terror-related.
A man is detained by British armed police inside the Parliamentary Estate after a security incident at the Houses of Parliament in central London on December 11, 2018. (Photo by Tolga AKMEN / AFP)
In March last year, Khalid Masood, a British Muslim convert, rammed a car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge before fatally stabbing a policeman on guard outside parliament.
The attack, which left five people dead and around 50 injured, ended when police shot the 52-year-old Masood dead.
— AFP
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