18-year-old charged with attempted murder in London tube terror attack

September 22, 2017 18:05

A 18-year-old man has been charged with carrying out the attempted bombing on a London tube train.

Ahmed Hassan, of Sunbury-on-Thames has been charged with attempted murder and explosives offences.

Hassan was arrested in the port of Dover on Saturday, a day after a fireball ripped through a packed carriage at Parsons Green station during the height of morning rush hour.

A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police said he had been charged with "attempting to murder persons travelling on a District Line train from Wimbledon" and "maliciously causing by triacetone triperoxide or other explosive substance an explosion of a nature likely to endanger life or to cause serious injury to property".

Hassan was originally one of two refugees fostered by the same couple in Surrey arrested over the attempted bombing.

The second man, 21-year-old Yahyah Farroukh, was released without charge on Thursday, as was a 48-year-old man detained in Newport.

Three other men, aged 17, 25 and 30, remain in custody under section 41 of the Terrorism Act in connection with the investigation, which is being lead by the Mets Counter Terrorism Command.

Searches are ongoing at Hassan's home in Surrey and two properties in Newport, Wales, including one used to house asylum seekers.

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