Devices 'may have targeted emergency workers'

Terrorism expert David Capitanchik said today’s explosions in London may have been “amateurish” devices aimed at emergency services who arrive at the scene.

Devices 'may have targeted emergency workers'

Terrorism expert David Capitanchik said today’s explosions in London may have been “amateurish” devices aimed at emergency services who arrive at the scene.

Professor Capitanchik from Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen said eyewitness reports of small explosions in a rucksack could indicate that they were not intended to explode properly until they had been recovered.

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