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22 Oct, 2016

Suspect arrested after device found

Terror Incident0 Comments

A 19-year-old suspect is detained by armed police in Holloway Road, north London, after the discovery of a suspect device on a Tube train. A witness to the teenager’s arrest described him as white, bearded and wearing a hoodie. Witness

The armed police, I think five of them, ran behind him and put him on the floor. They were shouting ‘armed police, don’t struggle’. Everything happened so quick.

The device was destroyed in a controlled explosions. Security has been heightened on the Underground.