British police made a “significant” arrest in the urgent hunt for suspects a day after the London subway blast that injured more than two dozen people, authorities said yesterday.
Police said that an 18-year-old man was arrested by Kent police in the port of Dover on the English Channel.
He is being questioned under the Terrorism Act.
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Dover is a major ferry port for travel between Britain and France.
“We have made a significant arrest in our investigation this morning,” Deputy Assistant Police Commissioner Neil Basu said.
However, he warned that the investigation was ongoing and the terrorist threat level remains at “critical,” meaning a government task force that includes the security services believes another attack is imminent.
Basu’s comments suggested that other dangerous suspects might still be at large.
The 18-year-old suspect has not been charged or identified.
Police said he will be brought to a south London police station for more questioning.
Police have not said if he is suspected of planting the bomb or if he played a supporting role in a possible plot.
Authorities had increased the terrorism threat level to “critical” late on Friday, after a bomb partially exploded during the morning rush hour.
Police are combing through closed-circuit TV images and have extensively studied the remains of the device without giving details about it, but images from inside the subway carriage after the blast showed that the device was contained in a bucket with wires hanging out of it and that it was concealed in a plastic shopping bag.
The train hit by the bomber at Parsons Green station in southwest London had video cameras in each car and the London Underground network has thousands of cameras at the entrances to stations and along the labyrinth of subterranean and above ground passageways leading from the entryway to the trains.
Officials have hinted there might be more than one person involved, but have not released details in what is termed an ongoing and covert inquiry.
British Prime Minister Theresa May said raising the threat level to its highest point was a “proportionate and sensible step.”
Police called on the public to be vigilant.
The soldiers will add to the armed police presence yesterday at public places to deter attacks after the Friday morning rush-hour blast on a District Line train.
The explosion and an ensuing stampede at the station injured 29 people. None of the injuries, some of them burns, were believed to be life-threatening.
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