Sender of UK parcel bombs has not claimed responsibility — Police

LONDON: British police have not received any claim of responsibility for three small parcel bombs sent to two airports and a major London train station, a senior counter terrorism officer said.

No one was injured by the devices, one of which caused a small fire in an office building at Heathrow Airport.

The other two were sent to London City Airport and Waterloo train station, London’s busiest rail hub. None of the devices caused any disruption to services.

Dean Haydon, senior national coordinator for counter-terrorism policing, said he could not rule out the possibility of more such devices, which he described as small and not designed to kill.

“At the moment there is nothing to indicate motivation, sender, ideology,” he told reporters.

“We don’t know who sent them – we are not making any judgments at the moment whether it’s connected to Northern Ireland-related terrorism.”

The packages were posted from the Republic of Ireland, according to a senior European government source, and Ireland’s police service is helping the investigation.

Haydon said the packaging and stamps on all three were the same.

They contained nothing else apartfromthedevicesandalthough small, whoever built them would have needed knowledge of how to build an incendiary device. — Reuters