Intruder arrested after scaling scaffolding at UK Parliament

AP  |  London 

have arrested an who scaled and got onto the roof of Parliament.

force says officers were called late Wednesday morning "to reports of a man acting suspiciously" near an entrance to the building. The man then climbed a fence and scaled to the roof.

Parliament's Big Ben clock tower is currently covered in for repair work.

The force says officers arrested the man for trespassing. The incident is not being treated as terrorism-related.

Photos showed armed police officers in the scaffolding after the arrest. The entered the grounds of Parliament at the Carriage Gates entrance.

That's where a was stabbed to death in March 2017 by an attacker who also ran down several pedestrians on nearby

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First Published: Wed, May 30 2018. 22:10 IST