Second arrest in UK train attack UK REBUKES TRUMP AGAIN OVER TWEET
London, Sept. 17: British police on Sunday said they had made a second arrest over the bombing of a London Underground train, as their probe into the terror attack widened.
The 21-year-old man, who has not been named, was detained late Saturday in Hounslow, on the western rim of the capital, a police statement said.
A search was under way on Sunday in Stanwell, a few kilometres west of Hounslow, in connection with the arrest.
Officers had earlier arrested an 18-year-old man over Friday’s “bucket bomb” attack at Parsons Green station, which injured 30 people, and said they were hunting for more suspects.
Home secretary Amber Rudd said that police are trying to find out how the teenager was “radicalised”.
The bomb went off in a packed carriage and although the device is thought to have malfunctioned it still caused a large explosion followed by what witnesses said was a fireball.
The first arrest on Saturday took place at the Dover ferry terminal — a main link to Europe. A “number of items” were recovered and the teenager is in custody in London.
— AFP London, Sept. 17: A senior British minister has renewed criticism of US President Donald Trump for tweeting about the police inquiry into the Friday’s train attack.
First secretary of state Damian Green told Sky News it was “unhelpful” for Mr Trump to have tweeted about the investigation. Mr Trump, in a tweet hours after the attack, had said UK police had had the perpetrators in their sights.
Home secretary Amber Rudd denied Mr Trump had received leaked security information when he tweeted about the attack.
The Joint Terrorist Analysis Centre has decided to lower threat level to severe... It still means that an attack is highly likely.
— AMBER RUDD, UK home secretary