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Decatur Co. Students Witness London Terror Attack

Posted at 5:38 PM, Mar 23, 2017
and last updated 2017-03-23 20:17:02-04

A group of Decatur County high school students were just feet away from the London attack that killed five people.

The attack happened on the group's first day in London. Eight Riverside High School students had just left the Parliament with three of their teachers, when a car drove through a crowd of people. 

"She called me and she was crying and screaming so bad I couldn't understand what was happening. I was like Kilee calm down you've got to tell me what's going on," said Karen Yarbro.

Yarbro answered the frantic call from her daughter, who just lived through the terror attack in London.

A total of five people were killed, and Yarbro was forced to listen helplessly on the other end of the phone.

"She said momma we were walking across the bridge and this guy in a car ran up on the side walk and was running over people," said Yarbro.

Karen's daughter, Kilee Yarbro, was walking across the Westminster bridge with her classmates when someone screamed "run." Watching the nightmare unfold just 20 feet away.

"She saw blood and his brains on the outside of his body," said Yarbro.

Yarbro was then left to wait for the safe return of her daughter, and said she's just grateful her daughter is coming back home.

"I was thinking, and praying to the Lord for Him to please just bring her back to me, and for her to be safe," said Yarbro.

NewsChannel 5 reached out to the Director of School in Decatur county, and was told the trip was not school related but, was an educational tour for Spring break.