British counter-terrorism police say they have thwarted an active plot with raids in London and south-eastern England, which saw one woman shot and six people arrested.
Key points
- London police say the injured woman is the subject of an ongoing investigation
- Operation is not connected with earlier arrest of a man found with knives in Westminster
- Police believe the terror threat that the suspects had posed has now been contained
- Britain’s official threat level remains at ‘severe’, meaning an attack is highly likely
Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said officers stormed a house in the Willesden area of the capital on Thursday evening (local time), shooting a woman in her 20s.
She was said to be in a serious but stable condition in hospital.
Asked if police had foiled an active plot, Mr Basu replied: “Yes”.
He said six people had been arrested in the Willesden security operation, five at the house, and another in Kent, in south-east England.
The woman injured was the subject of an ongoing investigation and was under police guard, but had not been arrested because of her condition, he said.
In a separate incident only hours earlier, a man was arrested carrying at least three knives near Prime Minister Theresa May’s office in Westminster during a stop-and-search operation by armed counter-terrorism police.
The 27-year-old British national, who has since been identified as Mohamed Khalid Omar Ali, was being monitored by British intelligence agents and police.
He remains in custody on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon and preparing for acts of terrorism…
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