Man Outside U.K. Parliament Carrying Knives Is Arrested<br />All four people were arrested under antiterrorism laws, the Metropolitan Police said in a statement, adding<br />that the episode was not connected to the arrest of the man carrying knives near Parliament.<br />By SEWELL CHANAPRIL 27, 2017<br />LONDON — A 27-year-old man carrying knives was arrested Thursday afternoon near Parliament<br />by the London police, who charged him with planning a terrorist attack.<br />Later on Thursday, British police said officers shot a woman<br />and arrested four other people in London and nearby Kent during a counterterrorism investigation, Reuters reported.<br />The Metropolitan Police, as the police in London are known, said the man was arrested around 2:22 p.m. after he was stopped<br />and searched in a procedure similar to stop-and-frisk operations in the United States.<br />The man, whose name was not made public, was arrested on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon<br />and on suspicion of the commission, preparation and instigation of acts of terrorism, the police said.<br />No one was hurt, but the episode immediately rekindled anxieties about the terrorist attack outside Parliament on March 22, when a 52-year-old<br />British man, Khalid Masood, drove a vehicle into a group of pedestrians, killing four, and stabbed a police officer to death.
