London metro station incident caused by bomb, top UK police officer says

 

LONDON:  British police said a bomb was used during an explosion at a London metro station which injured 18 people in what officers described as a “terrorist incident.”

 “We now assess that this was a detonation of an improvised explosive device,” Britain’s top counter-terrorism officer Mark Rowley said on Friday.

 London’s police is being supported by Britain’s MI5 intelligence service, he said.

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