2ND ‘BOMB’ IN TUBE TERROR PLOT

Cops evacuate Devon town in scare

POLICE yesterday found a suspicious device in Devon as they probed a potential terror attack on the London Tube.

It comes after a bomb was found on a train on Thursday.

Officers later said the Devon device was not viable. A 19-yearold man was being questioned by detectives last night.

POLICE probing an alleged plot to bomb the Tube found a second device in Devon yesterday.

It was discovered two days after a suspect item, reported to contain ballbearings, was spotted on a London Underground train.

North Greenwich station, near the O2 Arena, was cleared as a controlled explosion was carried out.

Then yesterday counter-terrorism officers swooped on an address in Newton Abbot and evacuated homes in the area.

Neighbours said they had been told there was an unexploded bomb but they did not know exactly where.

Devon and Cornwall Police later said the device was “not viable”.

A spokesman added: “Further forensic searches will continue at the property in question.

“A police scene guard will remain in place while this work continues.”

A day earlier, counter-terrorism officers detained a 19-year-old man in a gunpoint arrest in Holloway Road, north London. Police are still questioning him. After the suspect device was found on the Tube the Ministry of Defence (MoD) warned more devices may have been planted across the network amid fears of an attack on the scale of the 7/7 bombings in 2005.

British soldiers were told before the arrest: “It remains possible that the perpetrator may attempt to place further devices.”

The mechanism was said to be a bag containing “wires and a clock”.

The Tube worker who discovered the device said last night: “There’s no doubt in my mind – it was definitely a bomb.”

He said it was on an eastbound service heading to landmarks including Westminster and the Shard.

Last night, security experts said Britain faced a “two-pronged terror threat” from returning Islamic State fighters and “lone wolves”.

Adam Deen, of the anti-extremist Quilliam Foundation, said: “I expect more incidents from self-starters.

“IS are losing territory weekly and if they lose Mosul they are almost certainly going to change tactic and return foreign fighters home to begin operations there.”

The 7/7 bombings, which targeted London’s transport network, killed 52 people on trains and buses.