London police on Thursday March 23,2017 identified a British man as responsible for killing four people in a rampage outside parliament, as hundreds gathered for a candlelit vigil in the capital.
The Islamic State group claimed the assailant behind the deadliest attack on British soil in 12 years was one of its "soldiers" acting on a call to target countries in the US-led coalition fighting the jihadists.
Police named him as Khalid Masood, 52, and said he had numerous convictions for violent offences but none terrorism-related.
"(He) was not the subject of any investigations and there was no prior intelligence about his intent to mount a terrorist attack."
Khalid Masood, reportedly a married father-of-three, rented the car used in the rampage in a town outside Birmingham
First IS claim of British attack
The IS group said it was responsible, according to the Amaq propaganda agency, its first claim of an attack on British soil.
The latest attack had echoes of the atrocities in Nice and Berlin when trucks ploughed into crowds of people, killing 86 people in the French Riviera city in July and 12 at a market in the German capital just days before Christmas.
The assault on Westminster was the deadliest in Britain since four suicide bombers killed 52 people on the city's transport system in July 2005.
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