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Man held over school explosion
27/09/2007 17:03 - (SA)
London - A 21-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of detonating a homemade bomb inside a car near a primary school in northern England, police said on Thursday.
The man was arrested on Wednesday "on suspicion of causing an explosion" outside the fee-paying Runnymede St Edward's preparatory school in West Derby, Liverpool last Friday, a spokesperson for Merseyside Police said.
The man is being questioned at a police station on Merseyside.
The bomb, which police described as an "improvised firework-type device" and press reports said had been packed with nails, exploded inside a car belonging to a female teacher just minutes before the end of the school day.
The blast smashed the windows of the vehicle.
Merseyside Police Superintendent Ian Pilling said shortly after the explosion that it could have injured or killed people if they had been nearby.
Britain has been on high alert since failed terror attacks in London and Glasgow at the end of June, although there was no indication that the Liverpool incident was terrorism-related.
- AFP
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