Four arrested over London bombings

LONDON: British anti-terror police on Wednesday arrested four more people in connection with the July 2005 London suicide bombings.

The three men and one woman were arrested on suspicion of the commission, preparation, or instigation of acts of terrorism under the Terrorism Act 2000, police said in a statement.

Two men, aged 30 and 34, and a 29-year-old woman were arrested in West Yorkshire, northern England. Five houses around the city of Leeds were being searched, two in the Beeston suburb, two in the town of Dewsbury and one in the town of Batley.

A 22-year-old man was arrested in the West Midlands in central England. Two flats were being searched in Birmingham, Britain's second city.

Armed officers were not used in the arrests.

The suspects were taken to a central London police station where they will be interviewed in custody by officers from the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command.

"This was a pre-planned, intelligence-led operation," a police spokesman said.

Three people were arrested in March over the July 7, 2005 bombings, which killed 52 people and the four suicide bombers.

The bombings were followed exactly two weeks later by a failed alleged multiple suicide attack.