Waterloo Region Record

Third man arrested in subway attack

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LONDON — British police have arrested a third suspect in connection with the bomb that partially exploded on a London subway last week.

Police said they arrested a 25-year-old man in Wales on Tuesday evening under the Terrorism Act. They say a property in Newport, Wales, 225 kilometres west of London, was being searched.

Two other men arrested over the weekend — an 18-yearold refugee from Iraq and a 21-year-old from Syria — remain in custody. Neither has been charged. London police have not released details from the investigat­ion.

Commander Dean Haydon, head of the Metropolit­an Police Counter-Terrorism Command, said searches were underway at four different locations, including three that were in progress before Tuesday.

The searches may take “some days to complete” as detectives seek to determine the “full facts” behind the attack, Haydon said.

He asked the public to “look out for anything that seems out of place, unusual, or just doesn’t seem to fit in with dayto-day life” and to notify police immediatel­y if something seems amiss.

The homemade explosive device, which had been placed inside a bucket that was enclosed by a shopping bag, injured 30 people when it partially detonated inside a crowded subway car on Friday morning.

The subway was stopped at the Parsons Green station when the device went off.

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