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18-year-old charged over London subway bombing

───   10:45 Sat, 23 Sep 2017

18-year-old charged over London subway bombing | News Article

London - British police on Friday charged an 18-year-old man with attempted murder and causing an explosion over last week's bomb attack on the London subway.


The Metropolitan Police Force said Ahmed Hassan will appear in court later, accused of planting the bomb at Parsons Green station a week ago.

Hassan is accused of attempting to "murder persons travelling on a District Line train" on September 15, and of using a chemical compound known as TATP to cause an explosion likely to endanger life, police said.

Hassan, who is reported to be from Iraq, was arrested on Saturday at the port of Dover, departure point for ferries to France. After his arrest, police searched the suburban home of a couple who had fostered more than 200 children, including refugees from the Middle East.

Thirty people were injured when the homemade bomb - hidden in a plastic bucket that was place in a plastic supermarket bag - partly detonated at the height of the morning rush hour.

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