Tag: explosive devices

• Sunday, December 1st 2019 - 08:40 UTC

  London Bridge stabber was on conditional release; police shot him after public had reduced him

  

  The British government on Saturday vowed a “full review” after a convicted terrorist released early from prison was suspected of stabbing two people to death on London Bridge. Police shot Usman Khan dead after his suspected assault that seriously injured three other people was broken up by bystanders - one armed with a five-foot narwhal tusk and another a fire extinguisher.

• Thursday, October 25th 2018 - 08:16 UTC

  US ex presidents, prominent Democrats and CNN targets with explosive devices

  

  Suspected explosive devices were sent to former United States president Barack Obama, defeated presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, New York governor Andres Cuomo and to a building housing CNN's New York bureau, less than 24 hours apart and less than two weeks before key US midterm elections, officials confirmed on Wednesday.