Kiwi stuck in UK Parliament during London attack

A photo taken by Craig Spanhake while waiting in the House of Lords during yesterday's attacks in London.

A New Zealander has described the "intense" moments he was stuck inside Parliament in the thick of yesterday's attacks in London.

Craig Spanhake posted on Facebook that he was at Westminster during the attack, "with paramilitary police running around".

Khalid Masood killed four people and injured up to 40 as he ploughed along a crowded footpath on Westminster Bridge.

Spanhake is in the UK on holiday and was visiting Parliament to go to a Prime Minister's questions session. He watched Prime Minister Theresa May answer a question before the session was stopped.

During the attack Parliament was locked down, and Spanhake said he spent three hours stuck in the lobby of the House of Lords.

He then spent two hours in the "chilly" Westminster Hall.

He posted that it was "quite a day, quite an experience".

He finally made it out after five-and-a-half hours. "Just in time as I had finished my book and my phone is almost dead. Now to find food!"