Westminster vehicle attack sparks chilling echoes of Berlin, Nice

THE car attack in Westminster has raised fears that terrorists from Berlin to Nice are using vehicles as weapons of mass murder.

A car stopped on the sidewalk in front of the Palace of Westminster, which houses the Houses of Parliament, after in which pedestrians were hit. Picture: AFP

TODAY’S attack in Westminster raises fears over a sinister mass murder method that is increasingly used by terrorists.

The Sun reports that witnesses saw a car mow down a dozen pedestrians on Westminster Bridge before crashing into the gates outside Parliament — but this bears similarities with a spate of atrocities in recent times.

Firemen inspecting the truck that crashed into a Christmas market at Gedächtniskirche church in Berlin in December. Picture: AFP

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Right before Christmas on December 19, a Tunisian ISIS fanatic drove a lorry into a Berlin Christmas market.

Twelve were killed when they were mown down as the lorry deliberately ploughed into crowds in Breitscheidplatz — a square in the German capital — at 65km/h.

A French-Tunisian attacker killed 84 people as he drove a truck through crowds, gathered to watch a firework display during Bastille Day celebrations. Picture: Getty

This came just five months after the nightmarish scenes in Nice on Bastille Day where a lorry killed 84, ten of whom were children.

A chilling ISIS video then emerged calling on Islamic fanatics to repeat the atrocity in London.

A photo from the British Ministry of Defence shows Drummer Lee Rigby. Picture: Supplied

Then there was the murder of Lee Rigby in London.

Michael Adebolajo and accomplice Michael Adebowale murdered Fusilier Lee, 25, near his barracks in Woolwich, South East London in 2013.

They mowed him down in a car before hacking him with knives and a cleaver.

This article originally appeared in The Sun