British Police Make ‘Significant Arrest’ in Subway Bombing
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British Police Make ‘Significant Arrest’ in Subway Bombing
LONDON — The British police said on Saturday that they had arrested an 18-year-old man in connection with the terrorist explosion in a London subway station
that injured at least 30 people and unleashed panic among fleeing passengers.
Britain raised its terror threat level to “critical,” the highest level, after the explosion, meaning
that another assault was “expected imminently.” Mr. Basu said on Saturday that the threat level would remain that way as the investigation continued.
Britain was hit by a terrorist attack on Friday morning, when a crude device exploded on a crowded London Underground train.
As part of the bombing investigation, armed officers on Saturday were searching at least one house in Sunbury-on-Thames, on the outskirts of the capital
and about three miles from Heathrow Airport in London, according to The Associated Press, the BBC and other local news outlets.
“We have made a significant arrest in our investigation this morning,” Deputy Assistant Commissioner Neil
Basu, the top counterterrorism official at the Metropolitan Police in London, said in a statement.
LONDON — The British police said on Saturday that they had arrested an 18-year-old man in connection with the terrorist explosion in a London subway station
that injured at least 30 people and unleashed panic among fleeing passengers.
Britain raised its terror threat level to “critical,” the highest level, after the explosion, meaning
that another assault was “expected imminently.” Mr. Basu said on Saturday that the threat level would remain that way as the investigation continued.
Britain was hit by a terrorist attack on Friday morning, when a crude device exploded on a crowded London Underground train.
As part of the bombing investigation, armed officers on Saturday were searching at least one house in Sunbury-on-Thames, on the outskirts of the capital
and about three miles from Heathrow Airport in London, according to The Associated Press, the BBC and other local news outlets.
“We have made a significant arrest in our investigation this morning,” Deputy Assistant Commissioner Neil
Basu, the top counterterrorism official at the Metropolitan Police in London, said in a statement.