DUBAI: Muslim women gathered at the scene of Wednesday’s terror attack in London on Sunday and formed a human chain across Westminster Bridge to show solidarity with the victims.
Wearing blue clothes as a symbol of hope, the women held hands on the bridge where pedestrians were mowed down by 52-year-old attacker Khalid Masood.
The remembrance event was organized by Women’s March On London and was held at 4 p.m. local time.
Fariha Khan, 40, told the : “The feeling of what happened here on Wednesday was really strong.
“We thought of the ordinary people who were here and were mown down, standing here like this, it was very overwhelming.”
Sarah Waseem, 57, from Surrey, told the newspaper: “When an attack happens in London, it is an attack on me.”
Meanwhile, Police have arrested a 30-year-old man in the central city of Birmingham in connection with last week’s attack, “on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts,” the Metropolitan Police said on Sunday.
The police said in a statement they had arrested 12 people since Wednesday’s attack when British born Khalid Masood killed four people and was himself shot dead. But nine had been released with no further action, the police added.
(With Reuters)