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Metropolitan Police counterterrorism chief Mark Rowley has confirmed five people have now died and 40 injured in the terror attack on Westminster earlier today.
He has announced that the death toll has now rised to five, including the suspected attacker.
The dead police officer was named as Keith Palmer, 48 a husband and father.
Government forces and rebels engaged in fresh fighting as rebel offensive near Jobar neighbourhood enters third day.
Syrian rebels stormed a government-held area in northeastern Damascus for the second time in three days, sources on both sides said, pressing the boldest assault on the capital by opposition fighters in several years.
A heavy gunfight between al-Shabaab fighters and Somali National Army has erupted in Monday in the outskirts of Baidoa town, the interim capital of Southwest state, Garowe Online reports.
Residents say the fighting broke out when the Islamic militants armed with machine guns and rocked propelled grenades attacked Somali military bases outside Daynunay area, about 20 km away from Baidoa.
Syrian rebels launched a major offensive on Sunday that brought them close to the heart of the Old City of Damascus, and government forces responded with intense bombardments of rebel-held areas.
The escalation, reported by witnesses, state TV, rebel sources, and a monitoring group, marked a bid by the rebels to relieve army pressure on besieged areas they control to the east of the capital.
Eight maoists and two policemen were killed in a raging encounter in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district on Saturday, police said.
Two security personnel were also injured in the gun battle going on in the forest of Barrempara village under Aranpur police station area of the state’s Maoist-affected Bastar region.