Five South Korean tourists injured in UK Parliament attack: Seoul

The terror attack outside UK Parliament injured five South Korean tourists, Seoul's foreign ministry said on Thursday. The tourists- four women and a man in their 50s or 60s, were knocked to the ground by people trying to flee as an assailant mowed down pedestrians in a car, the ministry said.

While four of them suffered relatively light injuries including a fracture, one a woman in her late 60s, suffered a head injury and was going through surgery, it said.

They were being treated in two local hospitals, it added. The assault began when a car was driven over Westminster Bridge next to London's parliament building -- a major tourist attraction -- hitting and injuring several members of the public. Three, including a police officer, were killed in theattack by the assailant who was subsequently shot dead by armed police.