NORTHAMPTON — Local college administrators quickly began checking in on students studying in the United Kingdom following Wednesday’s terrorist attack in London that left five dead, including the assailant.
All four Hampshire College students spending time in England reported in and are safe and sound, said spokesman John Courtmanche.
Administrators are checking to see if any students studying on campus hail from the U.K., Courtmanche said.
Smith College has about two dozen students studying in that country. Administrators remain busy tracking them down and verifying their safety, said spokeswoman Stacey Schmeidel.
Caroline Hanna, spokeswoman for Amherst College, similarly said that as of Thursday afternoon administrators were still working to track down some students in the vicinity of the attack.
“Most of our students have checked in and are OK, although a handful haven’t,” Hanna wrote in an email, adding that students in England are on spring break and many are traveling.
They had not heard from of anyone affiliated with the college injured during the day’s events, Hanna said.
Officials at the University of Massachusetts Amherst said they were touching base with 23 undergraduate students studying in London. As of Wednesday night, 19 had been contacted, the university said in a statement. None had suffered injuries.
The sole university faculty member in the U.K. remains unaccounted for, officials said.
Officials at Mount Holyoke College did not immediately respond to media inquiries.
More than 30 people required hospitalization following the attack, which began with a motorist running down pedestrians on busy Westminster Bridge before attacking and killing a police officer on the grounds of Parliament.
Multiple law enforcement raids — resulting in seven arrests — occurred in the aftermath, according to the Associated Press.