‘At least one bomber dead’

At least one of the bombers in the serial terror blasts here probably died in the attack and authorities are searching for several others wh...

At least one of the bombers in the serial terror blasts here probably died in the attack and authorities are searching for several others who may have been involved, police said today. Assistant Commissioner of the London Police, Peter Clark, said authorities carried out six raids in Leeds, in northern England, including at the homes of three of four suspects. The police made one arrest, but it was unclear what that suspect’s role in the attack might have been.

Police said they had the names of three of four suspected bombers—one who had been reported missing by his family. “We’re trying to establish their movements in the run-up to last week’s attacks, and specifically, to establish if they all died in the explosions,” Clark said. “Today, we executed six warrants issued under the terrorism act, at various premises in the West Yorkshire area. These included the homes of three of the four men to whom I’ve referred.”

Clark also said that items belonging to the suspects—all men—were found at each of the blast sites, and that a surveillance camera at the King’s Cross subway station showed that the men had met there shortly before the explosions.

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“It is very likely that one of the men from West Yorkshire died in the explosion at Algate,” Clark said.

The authorities did not disclose the name of that man, nor did they give the identities of the others. Clark said “personal documents” belonging to the men were found at the sites of the explosions.

At the site of one of the raids in Leeds, officials used a controlled explosion to enter a home, and police evacuated the neighborhood out of fear that the house might contain explosives, the police said. “There have been a series of searches carried out in Yorkshire,” London’s police chief, Ian Blair, said. “Those searches are still on. There’s very little else I can say at the moment, but this activity is directly connected to the outrages on Thursday.”

Meanwhile, US Military officials rescinded an order instructing 10,000 service members at air bases in eastern England to avoid London after the terror attacks. —NYT

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