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London terrorist attacksi

London, one of the world's major capital cities, has been the site of a number of terrorist attacks over the years. On March 22, 2017, four people were killed after a car ploughed into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge and a suspected Islamist-inspired attacker stabbed a policeman; on Novmeber 29, 2019, two people were killed when a terrorist attacked several people with a knife near London Bridge.

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The inquiry into the attack carried out in June 2017 heard of an off-duty nurse killed while trying to help the wounded and a passer-by who died tackling the terrorists with a skateboard.