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2 more held over London terror attack
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TWO men were arrested yesterday over last week’s London Underground railway terror attack in which 30 people were injured, bringing the total number of people in custody to five, police said.
The men, aged 30 and 48, were arrested under anti-terrorism legislation in Newport in Wales, police said, after a 25-year-old man was arrested in the same city on Tuesday.
“This continues to be a fast-moving investigation,” Dean Haydon, head of counter-terrorism at London’s Metropolitan Police, said.
“We now have five men in custody and searches are continuing at four addresses. We anticipate that the searches will take some days to complete and may cause further disruption.”
Friday’s attack on a train at Parsons Green station in west London was claimed by the Islamic State group.
A bomb hidden in a large white bucket apparently failed to detonate fully when it went off during morning rush hour but instead released what witnesses described as a “fireball” into the air.
Some commuters suffered burns, while others were injured in the stampede to the exit that ensued.
The bombing was the fifth terror attack in Britain in six months, which combined have claimed 35 lives.
The terror alert in the country was raised to its maximum “critical” level on Friday, meaning another attack was believed to be imminent. It was lowered back to “severe” on Sunday.
An 18-year-old man, reportedly an Iraqi refugee, was arrested in the ferry departure terminal of the port of Dover on Saturday and a 21-year-old man was detained later the same day in west London.
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