LONDON
(Reuters) - British detectives have arrested a 17-year-old youth in connection
with a bomb attack on an underground train in London last week that
injured 30
people, bringing the total number of arrests to six, police said on Thursday.
The young
man was arrested in the early hours of Thursday in Thornton Heath, south
London. The other arrests had taken place in Dover on the south coast of
England, Hounslow in west London and Newport in Wales.
A home-made
bomb went off on Sept. 15 during the morning rush hour on a packed underground
Tube train at Parsons Green station, sending flames through the carriage,
although it appeared that the device did not fully explode.
It was the
fifth major terrorism incident in Britain this year.
“This
continues to be a fast-moving investigation. A significant amount of activity
has taken place since the attack on Friday,” said Commander Dean Haydon, head
of the Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Command.
“We now have
six males in custody and searches are continuing at five addresses. Detectives
are carrying out extensive inquiries to determine the full facts behind the
attack,” he said.
The other
men in custody in a south London police station are an 18-year-old, a
21-year-old, a 25-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 48-year-old.
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