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Bath of explosives found at bombers' base
LONDON, July 14 (UPI) -- Anti-terrorist officers found a bath filled with explosives at a house said to be the "operating base" of the London bombers, reports said Thursday. The explosives were found at a house in the Hyde Park Road area of Burley, Leeds, according to the Independent newspaper. Greg Mulholland, member of Parliament for Leeds North West, said Wednesday: "It seems that this is an operating base for them. This is where the material may have been stored." Army bomb experts carried out a controlled explosion to get into the house Tuesday, and around 600 people were evacuated from the area. The discovery of such a large quantity of high explosives has raised fears among detectives that other bombs may have been made, and that further attacks are planned. UPDATE: The house at the centre of a major evacuation in Leeds during inquiries into the London bombings does not contain explosives, police now say. The Metropolitan Police said on Thursday it could not discuss whether any explosive material was found in any of the other houses searched, but officers in Leeds confirmed that material found in Hyde Park was not dangerous. On Thursday, a spokesman for West Yorkshire Police said: "Following extensive investigations with the Army explosives ordnance disposal unit and specialist scientists, it has finally been possible to establish that the material is not hazardous and does not represent a danger to other residents. In the wake of the revelation that the attacks were carried out by suicide bombers, police have been instructed to follow a "shoot-to-kill" policy. The advice has been circulated to chief constables, who have passed it to front-line officers, the newspaper reported. Armed police responding to alerts of a possible suicide bomber have been told to shoot the suspect in the head. Posted by: Steve 2005-07-14 |
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