UK police arrest three women in bomb probe
Posted on: Wednesday, 27 July 2005, 17:34 CDT
LONDON (Reuters) - British police arrested three women on Wednesday on suspicion of harboring offenders in a raid linked to last week's failed attempt to bomb London's transport system, a police spokeswoman said.
The women were held after an armed raid on a public housing estate in the Stockwell area of south London, close to the underground train station where a Brazilian man was mistakenly shot dead by police as a suspected suicide bomber last week.
"The arrests are in connection with the ongoing investigation into the attacks on July 21," the London police spokeswoman said. She declined to give further details.
Witnesses told Reuters police armed with automatic weapons and shotguns handcuffed the women before taking them away.
Earlier on Wednesday, police in central England arrested a man they believe planted a bomb on a London train last week, but warned three other suspects still at large could attack again.
The botched bombings on July 21 came two weeks after four suicide bombers killed 52 people in three underground trains and a bus. Police have linked the suicide bombers to al Qaeda.
Source: REUTERS
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