Killed on School Run: See the Mother-of-2 Who Got Murdered While Going to Pick Her Kids from School (Photos)

 

 

Aysha Frade, a 43-year-old British mother of two walking across Westminster Bridge to pick up her children from school has today been named as one of three people murdered in yesterday's terror attack.  

 

According to Daily Mail UK, Aysha Frade was on her way to meet her two daughters, aged eight and 11, when she appears to have been hit by her killer's car and then thrown under a bus.

 

The unnamed terrorist, a British-born man believed to be in his forties who was known to MI5, drove a Hyundai 4x4 at pedestrians on Westminster Bridge sending them flying like skittles before hurtling towards the gates of Parliament and smashing into its outer wall.

 

After sprinting through a gate he then stabbed to death Metropolitan policeman Keith Palmer, 48, before being shot by armed officers. He later died in hospital.

 

A man in his fifties was the terrorist's third victim - he was believed to have been knocked off Westminster Bridge on to a concrete underpass below.

 

Numerous tourists and students from Britain, France and Korea are among the injured with 29 in hospital on top of the 'walking wounded'. Seven are critically ill with 'catastrophic injuries' - potentially including two other police officers.

 

Three children were hurt from St Joseph's School in the seaside town of Concarneau, Brittany, which lost a former pupil in the Paris Bataclan attack in 2015. Their parents have flown into London to visit them at St Thomas' Hospital.

 

Theresa May revealed today that among the injured there were 12 Britons, three French, two Romanians, four South Koreans, one German, one Chinese, one Irish, one Italian and two Greeks. The foreign victims are likely to all have been tourists. 

 

The Queen has said her 'thoughts, prayers, and deepest sympathy' are with all those who have been affected by Wednesday's 'awful violence'. 

 

Mrs Frade worked at a college near the scene of the terrorist massacre, named in Spain as DLD College London. She was born in Britain and had a Portuguese husband called John Frade.

 

 

Rachel Borland, the college's principal, said staff were 'deeply shocked and saddened' at news of Mrs Frade's death.

 

'All our thoughts and our deepest sympathies are with her family,' she added. 'We will be offering every support we can to them as they try to come to terms with their devastating loss.

 

 

Her family hail from Betanzos near the Galician city of La Coruna and are now said to be travelling to London. 

 

Ms Frade's sisters run a language academy in Betanzos and she has other friends and family in the area, the birthplace of her mother. 

 

Andres Hermida, a local councillor in Betanzos, said today after learning the news: 'Betanzos has suffered a terrible blow because of the scourge of terrorism. 

 

 

A friend in Betanzos said: 'She loved coming here and spending time with friends and relatives.' 

 

Vigi Sawdon, a former neighbour of Mrs Frade in Notting Hill where the Frade family used to live, said: 'If you can imagine one of the most upstanding members of society, that was her.

 

 

Ms Sawdon described her as 'one of the most charming' people, and said her children were 'adorable', adding: 'It's just so terribly sad.'