Mwordnews.Info- Women gathered on Westminster Bridge on Sunday to show solidarity with the victims of the London terror attack. The g...
Mwordnews.Info-Women gathered on Westminster Bridge on Sunday to show solidarity with the victims of the London terror attack.
The group
held hands in a line for five minutes when Big Ben chimed at 16:00 BST.
Many of the
women wore head scarves at the tribute and said they were wearing blue to
represent hope.
Khalid
Masood, 52, killed four people when he drove a car into pedestrians and stabbed
a police officer on Wednesday.
Fariha Khan,
a GP from Surbiton was at Sunday's event and said: "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."
Some women
attended the tribute with their daughters
The event
was organised by Women's March On London group which took part in an
international campaign to highlight women's rights on the first full day of
Donald Trump's US presidency.
Another
woman who was there, Sarah Waseem, said the Islam faith "totally condemns
violence of any sort".
She said:
"When an attack happens in London, it is an attack on me. It is an attack
on all of us.
"This
is abhorrent to us."
Londoner
Mary Bennett, who is a retired healthcare worker, said she was there to make a
"small gesture".
She said:
"I am here to show that in a quiet way we continue to go where we like and
do what we like in London.
"This
is my city. It's a very small gesture but life is made up of small
gestures." (bbc)
