Amid the atrocities and shock there is an overriding message that rings around Britain's capital this morning. #WeAreNotAfraid.
One important message seen throughout the London terror attacks is the ability for strangers to unite and help each other. A real community.
As the terrorist ploughed his Hyundai 4x4 into people on Westminster Bridge, injuring many and killing two - before stabbing to death PC Keith Palmer, suddenly everyone pulled together.
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The images that immediately reverberated around the world were ones of strangers, who, on any given day, would have ignored each other as they passed but were now caring for one another, assisting in any way they could.
Reports in The Daily Mirror suggest that among the stricken were three police officers on their way back from a commendation ceremony and three French teenagers on a school visit to London.
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Numerous members of the public were also hurt, injured, or killed on Westminster Bridge - each one with a different background and story to tell.
Rob Lyon, a 34-year-old, told the newspaper about the terrifying moment he realised what was going on.
"I heard a wheel hit a kerb," he said. "And quite a large crunch noise. I looked up and saw a car clearly hitting people as it came towards me.
"I saw a man flung into the air from the impact, and a woman under a bus. She didn't look like she had much chance.
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"A colleague I was with, I heard him shout but I just instinctively jumped off the pavement and I could see people getting hit."
After the realisation of what had gone on, silent heroes started to emerge. Members of the public administering first aid before ambulances could tend to the injured.
In one image, a woman with blonde hair seemingly attended to a man with ripped clothing and blood on his hands.
In another, a woman is assessed for injuries by another as hundreds of passers-by look on in the distance, and scattered postcodes are around her.
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In a third picture, two men offer their support to another member of the public caught up in the attacks on the bridge.
Two men talk and assist a man lying in the middle of the road as he tries to scramble to his feet.
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Outside the Palace of Westminster, Foreign Office Minister Tobias Ellwood was hailed a 'hero' after he was pictured giving first aid to PC Keith Palmer - who sadly passed away later because of his injuries.
Ellwood performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on PC Palmer, and he could be seen being supported by other police officers with blood on his face.
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This morning, with hundreds-of-thousands returning to work in the capital, London's strangers once again show solidarity as they try and give each other a reminder that terrorism will not win.
Both members of parliament and police officers have held a one-minute silence this morning in respect of those who lost their lives yesterday.
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