Six more London bomb arrests

2005-07-31 15:32

London - Six more people were arrested in two police raids south of London on Sunday, in connection with the July 21 bombings in the British capital, police said.

"We have carried out search warrants at two addresses in the Sussex area in connection with July 21," a spokesperson for London's Metropolitan police said, adding that the officers making the arrests were not armed.

"Six people have been arrested at one of the addresses and they are in custody at a Sussex police station."

She said the suspects were arrested under Britain's anti-terrorism law but no further information was released about their alleged roles in the failed bombings, in which four men attempted to blow up three Underground trains and a bus in London.

Ongoing

"Searches of the premises are ongoing. No armed officers are present," she said.

The July 21 incidents, in which no one was injured because the bombs failed to fully explode, were an attempted repeat of the deadly July 7 attacks in London which killed 56 people, including the four suicide bombers.

Three of the four alleged July 21 bombers were arrested last week, while a fourth was detained in Rome on Friday and is facing extradition proceedings.

Zambian authorities were preparing to hand over to Britain a Briton of Indian origin, Haroon Aswat, arrested 11 days ago and who reportedly was the mastermind of the London bombings, police in Lusaka said on Sunday.

- AFP