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The English County Police detained a 18-year-old man as part of an investigation of a terrorist attack at the London metro station. It is reported by the BBC.

The suspect was detained in the port area in the city of DUVR. While he is in a local police station, he will be transported to London later. No details about the detainee in the police are disclosed, but they call the arrest "significant." Later, the sources of the BBC said that the detainee was suspected directly of laying the bomb in the subway.

In the afternoon, the police conducted a search in one of the residential buildings in Sanbury, a suburbs of London. During the search, tenants of houses within a radius of one hundred meters were evacuated.

Hundreds of employees checked the recordings of the video surveillance system, said on Saturday morning in the capital police service. The "persecution of the suspects" began, it was noted in the message. Thus, we are talking about several involved in the explosion. However, no details have yet been reported.

According to updated data, 29 victims were delivered to London hospitals. Some of them are in burn departments.

The day before, the Islamic State took responsibility for the attack. The assistant commissar of the metropolitan police service, Mark Rowley, called “very ordinary” a similar statement by IS, “regardless of whether they had before that had any contacts with participants (crime).” The police representative urged citizens to "remain calm", but "to be vigilant."

In the morning, a section of the Vystrikt metro line after the attack was again open for passengers.

The level of a terrorist threat in the country was raised from serious to a critical, said British Prime Minister Teresa May. This level is considered the highest and means the immediate threat of new attacks.

On Friday, 8:20 local time (10:20 Moscow time) at the south-west of London at the Parsons Green metro station, an explosion occurred in the train car. According to eyewitnesses, from a plastic container located in a bag near the car door, a ball of fire broke through. The explosion did not cause serious damage. Several people received burns, a number of passengers were injured as a result of panic.

Rescue services and police immediately arrived at the station. Passengers were evacuated. The movement of trains on the District line was discontinued between the Erls Cort and Wimbledon stations.

The investigation of the incident is conducting a counter -terrorism unit (Counter Terrorism Command, CTC) of the metropolitan police service. After a few hours, the incident was officially recognized as a terrorist attack.

The police later stated that the homemade explosive device laid down in the car was intended for a massacre, but did not work "properly." According to explosives, instead of detonation in the bomb, deflagration occurred - an explosive combustion with a speed insufficient for the explosion. If the explosives detonated, all those who were nearby would have died.

The explosive device was equipped with a timer. The terrorist could enter the train at one of the five stations in front of Parsons Green.

On July 7, 2005, a series of terrorist acts arranged by Islamists took place in the London metro and city buses. At 8:50 a.m. for 50 seconds, three metro trains were blown up, and at 9:47 there was an explosion on a bus on Tavistovist-Square. 52 people were killed and about 700 were also injured. 4 terrorist sunset terrorist: Habib ONF, Mohammed Sidik Khan, Jermen Lindsay and Shehzad Tanver. All of them were subjects of the United Kingdom, and all except Lindsay were born and grew up in the UK.