Arrest after incident in Whitehall. [UK]

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Arrest after incident in Whitehall.

'A man has been arrested by armed police after an incident in Whitehall, near
Parliament. A witness described seeing two knives on the ground, one of which
he described as a large bread knife.



A Metropolitan Police statement said there were no injuries in the incident close
to the junction of Parliament Street and Westminster Bridge Road.
Security remains tight outside Whitehall buildings following the terror attack on
22 March.

Khalid Masood killed four people when he drove along Westminster Bridge on
that day. He then got out of the car and stabbed PC Keith Palmer to death at the
entrance to Parliament...'
SOURCE:

'Police have foiled a suspected terror attack in Westminster after a man was
arrested in a "stop and search" with a "backpack full of knives".

Armed police swooped on Whitehall, close to the offices of the Treasury where
they detained the suspect five weeks after the terror attack that killed five people.
Scotland Yard said there were no reports of any injuries.

A spokesman added: "The man, aged in his late twenties, was arrested on suspicion
of possession of an offensive weapon and on suspicion of the commission, preparation
and instigation of acts of terrorism.

"Knives have been recovered from him. He is being detained under the Terrorism Act
and is in custody in a south London police station...'
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