Detectives name two bombing suspects
The would-be suicide bomber who targeted a number 26 bus in Hackney Road, east London, was named as Muktar Said Ibrahim, 27, also known as Muktar Mohammed Said.
Detectives were last night searching an address at 58 Curtis House in Ladderswood Way, New Southgate, north London, where he is thought to been.
The bomber who tried to detonate his device on the Tube at Warren Street on July 21 was named as Yasin Hassan Omar, 24.
Police said all the devices used by the July 21 bombers were placed within plastic food style containers which were then put in dark coloured rucksacks.
Scotland Yard Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke, head of the anti-terrorism branch, said the containers were manufactured in India and sold by only around 100 outlets in Britain.
They were labelled Delta 6250 on the lids and also had a label reading "family containers Delta superior quality".
Mr Clarke appealed for any shopkeeper who had sold five or more of the containers to any customer to contact police.
He said detectives had been able to establish more detail about the movements of the would-be suicide bombers. Three of them went into Stockwell underground station just before 12.25pm on the day of their attempted attack.
The first man then got onto a Northern Line northbound train and tried to set off his bomb between Stockwell and Oval stations. When he failed he got off at Oval and ran.
Mr Clarke said: "He was chased from the station by extraordinarily brave members of the public who tried to detain him."
After leaving the station he ran towards Brixton and threw away his dark top.
He was last seen at 12.45pm in Tindal Street.
The second man, Muktar Said Ibrahim, also went into Stockwell station at the same time and was seen walking towards the platforms. At 12.53 pm he was seen getting on a number 26 bus in the Bank area of the City of London.
He was carrying a grey and black rucksack and sat near the back of the bus with a bag next to him and then tried to set off his bomb. Having failed he got off the bus in Hackney Road at 1.05 pm.
The third man, Yasin Hassan Omar, also went into Stockwell station with a small purple rucksack.
He tried to set off his bomb on the northbound Victoria Line between Oxford Circus and Warren Street. Shortly afterwards he was seen in Warren Street station without the rucksack and he bolted a ticket barrier as he made his getaway.
The fourth bomber entered the underground system separately at Westbourne Park station in west London at 12.20pm.
He was wearing a dark blue baseball cap and was carrying a rucksack.
He got on a Hammersmith and City Line train towards Shepherd's Bush and tried unsuccessfully to set off his bomb.
He then fled the train, probably by jumping through a window onto the track and running along the line for two to three hundred yards.
The bomber then fled through the streets past the BBC building in Wood Lane and was last seen running under the A40 road.
Mr Clarke said that a fifth device had been found abandoned in bushes at nearby Little Wormwood Scrubs. He said that initial forensic examinations showed clear similarities between this bomb and the four that failed to go off.
It emerged later that police had arrested two more people in connection with the investigation into the attempted bombings.
The two, both men, were held in the vicinity of Curtis House in north London although not at the flat which police were searching yesterday afternoon.
One was arrested on Sunday night, the second earlier yesterday.
Both are being held under anti-terror laws at Paddington Green police station in central London. It brings the number of arrested men to five. None is thought to be any of the four suspected bombers.
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