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Official: Diffused Bomb in Central London Would Have Caused Significant Damage
LONDON Police thwarted a terror attack Friday near the famed Piccadilly Circus in the heart of London, defusing a crude bomb made of gasoline, propane gas, and nails after an ambulance crew spotted smoke coming from a silver Mercedes outside a nightclub.
A British government official told FOX News that a number of people "were seen making their way away from the car," leading Scotland Yard to believe detonation would have been accomplished remotely.
Britain's Sky News also quoted a police source as saying the device was to be set off remotely by cell phone. A police officer risked his life by removing the remote trigger from the vehicle before the device could be set off, the souce was quoted as saying.
Hours later, police closed a major road Park Lane and began asking people to leave the adjacent Hyde Park because of a suspicious vehicle.
Sky News reported that police were focusing on a vehicle in an underground parking lot that had been linked to the explosives-packed car. A remote-controlled robot was being used to inspect the vehicle.
The bomb in the city's theater district was powerful enough to have caused "significant injury or loss of life" possibly killing hundreds, British anti-terror police chief Peter Clarke said.
Official: Diffused Bomb in Central London Would Have Caused Significant Damage
LONDON Police thwarted a terror attack Friday near the famed Piccadilly Circus in the heart of London, defusing a crude bomb made of gasoline, propane gas, and nails after an ambulance crew spotted smoke coming from a silver Mercedes outside a nightclub.
A British government official told FOX News that a number of people "were seen making their way away from the car," leading Scotland Yard to believe detonation would have been accomplished remotely.
Britain's Sky News also quoted a police source as saying the device was to be set off remotely by cell phone. A police officer risked his life by removing the remote trigger from the vehicle before the device could be set off, the souce was quoted as saying.
Hours later, police closed a major road Park Lane and began asking people to leave the adjacent Hyde Park because of a suspicious vehicle.
Sky News reported that police were focusing on a vehicle in an underground parking lot that had been linked to the explosives-packed car. A remote-controlled robot was being used to inspect the vehicle.
The bomb in the city's theater district was powerful enough to have caused "significant injury or loss of life" possibly killing hundreds, British anti-terror police chief Peter Clarke said.
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