Four bombing suspects still being questioned by police
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Scotland Yard said its investigation is also focusing on another eight people being held in police stations across the capital, who have all been detained under anti-terror laws. All are being held on the suspicion of harbouring fugitives or the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism. Detectives have been given extra time to question Yasin Hassan Omar, aged 24, who was captured in Birmingham last week after police stunned him with a Taser gun. They now have until Wednesday to question the bomb suspect, who is being linked with the attempted attack on a Victoria line train near Warren Street.
Two of the bomber suspects, 27-year-old Muktar Said Ibrahim, who is alleged to have planted a bomb on a bus in Hackney, and Somali-born Ramzi Mohammed, were arrested following dramatic armed raids in west London on Friday. Dozens of police marksmen armed with rifles surrounded a block of flats on the Peabody Estate in North Kensington after Scotland Yard received a tip-off that the men were hiding in a safe house.
Yesterday, forensic experts continued a fingertip search of flat 14 in the hunt for any evidence they can find which relates to the attempted bombings on 21 July.
Wahbi Mohammed, the 23-year-old brother of Ramzi Mohammed, was picked up after a raid in Tavistock Crescent which is less than a mile from the Peabody Estate. Investigators are trying to establish if he was the fifth member of the same cell which carried out the abortive attacks. He is said to have abandoned his bomb in a hedge near Wormwood Scrubs prison last week.
Another 16 people arrested during the largest manhunt carried out by British police have now been released without charge. These include two people arrested in Leicester early yesterday and two women held at Liverpool Street station on Friday.
The terror attacks on London have led to renewed calls from police for phone-tap evidence gathered by the security services to be used in terror trials.