Toll of London Attack Is Global for an Assailant Born in Britain -<br />By DAN BILEFSKY, KIMIKO de FREYTAS-TAMURA, HANNAH OLIVENNES and CEYLAN YEGINSUMARCH 23, 2017<br />LONDON — The roster of the dead and wounded spanned the globe: a veteran Scotland Yard constable,<br />a Mormon couple from Utah, South Korean tourists, French high schoolers and Romanian lovers.<br />“We are not afraid, and our resolve will never waver in the face of terrorism.” She called the violence “an attack on free people everywhere.”<br />The police say a 52-year-old British man, Khalid Masood, was the attacker who left four people dead<br />and dozens injured near British Parliament on Wednesday.<br />At the United Nations, where the Security Council observed a minute of silence, Britain’s foreign secretary, Boris Johnson,<br />said, “The world is united to defeat the people who launched this attack and to defeat their bankrupt and odious ideology.”<br />Even as the British capital returned to its daily rhythms,<br />and as Parliament resumed business, police officers were trying to learn whether they had missed signs of Mr. Masood’s radicalization.<br />Keith Palmer, Aysha Frade, Kurt Cochran — an American —<br />and a 75-year-old man, later identified as Leslie Rhodes, died in the terrorist attack in London.<br />Mr. Masood plowed a rented Hyundai sport utility vehicle through pedestrians on the Westminster Bridge, killing two<br />and injuring at least 40; crashed the vehicle into a fence; and then emerged brandishing knives to fatally stab the constable before other police officers shot and killed him.
