Sudanese-born British national Salih Khater has been charged with two counts of attempted murder and will appear in court on Monday after he crashed his car into the security barriers surrounding Britain's Houses of Parliament last week.
Khater will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Monday charged with the attempted murders of members of the public and of police officers, London's Metropolitan Police said in a statement.
"The charges follow an incident in which Khater drove his car into a stationary group of members of the public then at police officers, before crashing into the barriers outside the Houses of Parliament," the statement said.
"Due to the methodology, iconic location and the alleged targeting of civilians and police officers, the CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) are treating this case as terrorism," it added.
The attack has left three people injured.
According to the BBC, Khater worked in Libya for two years as a farm laborer before going to the UK in 2010 as a refugee and then being granted asylum.
The crash came less than 18 months after an attacker plowed a car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge, killing four people, then fatally stabbed a police officer before being shot dead in a courtyard outside Parliament.
