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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.
Four Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in Russia’s war against Ukraine in Donbas during the last day, Ukrainian military press office reports on March 18.
Another three were injured.
Ukraine’s military on Monday accused pro-Moscow rebels of breaking a new ceasefire deal barely hours after it came into effect, as Western powers warned Russia over its actions in the former Soviet state.
One soldier was killed and another wounded in fighting in the country’s separatist east despite the new truce that started at midnight, the army said.
Turkish security forces have killed three militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in clashes in the eastern province of Tunceli, security sources stated on Feb. 16.
Sources, speaking on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to media, said the operation against the PKK in Tunceli’s Pülümür district began on Feb. 11 and ended on Feb. 16.
At least seven Ukrainian troops have been killed in an apparent uptick in fighting in eastern Ukraine, government officials said on Monday.
An armed conflict between government troops and separatist rebels has killed more than 9,600 since it began in 2014, according to the UN Human Rights Office. A January ceasefire had until recently helped to limit the fighting to sporadic shootouts.