a 31-year-old Romanian tourist who was knocked into the River Thames from Westminster Bridge during an attack on Britain's Houses of Parliament more than two weeks ago has died, London police said Friday, April 7, 2017. She had been on holiday in London with her boyfriend Andrei Burnaz, reported Reuters.Police said she fell into the river when attacker Khalid Masood plowed through pedestrians on Westminster Bridge before fatally stabbing a policeman outside the House of Commons.Cristea's family said in a statement.The family added that the money which was raised for her treatment will now be donated to charity.Cristea is the fifth victim to die from the attack. Her death brings the death toll from the attack to five, plus Masood, who was shot dead by police. Andreea Cristea was rescued from the cold river after the attack, in which British attacker Khalid Masood drove a rented SUV into pedestrians on the bridge and then fatally stabbed an unarmed police officer outside Parliament. Witnesses saw her lying face-down in the Thames before she was rescued and rushed to an emergency room for emergency surgery after being diagnosed with a blood clot on the brain. Andreea Cristea was taken off of life support on Thursday afternoon, police told The New York Times, after spending two weeks receiving extensive medical treatment in a London hospital. Mr Burnaz had an operation on a broken foot but has since been discharged and attended a vigil on Westminster Bridge last week. In a statement released Friday, her family and Burnaz described Cristea as a “shining ray of light that will forever keep on shining in our hearts.”

“After fighting for her life for over two weeks, our beloved and irreplaceable Andreea — wonderful daughter, sister, partner, dedicated friend and the most unique and life loving person you can imagine — was cruelly and brutally ripped away from our lives in the most heartless and spiritless way,” they said in the statement, released by the London Metropolitan police. “She will always be remembered as our shining ray of light that will forever keep on shining in our hearts.”

The family also announced the money donated for her recovery will go to charity. The others were PC Keith Palmer, 48, US tourist Kurt Cochran, 54, retired window cleaner Leslie Rhodes, 75, and Aysha Frade, 44, an administrator at DLD College LondonA vigil held on March 29 saw up to 500 UK religious leaders join hands on Westminster Bridge to form a human chain to honor the victims of the attack.
The death toll rises to five after a woman who fell into the River Thames dies in hospital.