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UK police still hold suspects, seek four bombers

Posted on: Sunday, 24 July 2005, 05:31 CDT

LONDON (Reuters) - Police are still holding two suspects in connection with Thursday's failed bomb attacks on London, but are continuing to hunt the four men believed to have carried the explosives, London's police chief said on Sunday.

"They are still with us and will be for some time I think, but we are still anxious for any sighting of the four individuals or any knowledge of them or where they have been," Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair told Sky News television.

"There are inquiries all over London at the moment and indeed the rest of Britain."

Asked if the suspects were still in Britain, he said: "We have no reason to believe they are not."

He also said it had not yet been established that last Thursday's attacks were linked to similar bombings 2 weeks before that killed 52 people in London.

"We have no proof that they are linked but clearly there is a pattern here, isn't there, of four attacks -- three on tubes and one on buses," he said.

Last Thursday's attacks killed no one, but caused panic. On Friday an innocent man, Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes, was shot dead in error by police who suspected he was a suicide bomber.

Blair confirmed the police had a shoot-to-kill policy to stop suspected suicide bombers detonating their explosives:

"This is not a Metropolitan policy, this is a national policy and I think we are quite comfortable that the policy is right, but of course these are fantastically difficult times ...

"There are still officers having to make those calls as we speak," he said. "Somebody else could be shot."

Source: REUTERS

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