WEB DESK
Britain has downgraded the nation’s terrorism threat from its highest level, after police made a second arrest in their probe days after the bombing of a London Underground train.
Interior minister Amber Rudd said in a televised statement yesterday that the Joint Terrorist Analysis Centre, which reviews the threat level that the UK is under, have decided to lower that level from critical to severe. Rudd said the police were trying to find out how the first man arrest was radicalised.
The bomb went off during Friday’s morning rush hour in a packed carriage and although the device is thought to have malfunctioned, it still wounded 30 people. It was Britain’s fifth terror attack in six months, a series that has claimed 35 lives.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the explosion. The first arrest took place on Saturday at the Dover ferry terminal, a main link to Europe. A number of items were recovered during the operation and the man is now in custody in London, officers said.