Nine arrested in dawn London terror raids

Anti-terror police arrested nine more men during dawn raids on two addresses in south London today.

The arrests were in connection with the investigation into last week’s botched London bombings.

Six of the suspects were arrested at one property in Tooting and three at another in the same area.

It is not thought any of those held are the three bombers still on the run after last Thursday’s failed attacks in London.

Scotland Yard said the suspects, arrested under the Terrorism Act 2000, has been taken to a central London police station for questioning. A spokesman said searches of the addresses were on-going.

The arrests came as detectives were questioning one of the would-be London bombers captured during a dramatic day of raids and arrests across the country yesterday.

Police confirmed last night that the man captured in an armed raid in Birmingham was suspect Yasin Hassan Omar as officers arrested three women in London on suspicion of harbouring offenders during another raid linked to the investigation.

Omar, a 24-year-old Somalian, was felled with a Taser stun gun when officers stormed the house where he was hiding in Birmingham yesterday morning.

Shortly after he was arrested three other men were held in a raid two miles away in Bankdale Road, Washwood Heath, Birmingham. Those three men are being held in Birmingham.

Police last night raided another flat on the ground floor of Blair House, 200 yards from Stockwell Tube station in south London.

The bomber behind last Thursday’s Shepherd’s Bush attack is thought to have lived there.

A spokeswoman for Scotland Yard confirmed that officers arrested three women during the raid on suspicion of harbouring offenders. They remained in custody overnight at a central London police station.

She added that the raid was linked to the investigation into the missing would-be bombers.

Neighbour Sonia Abreeu said the women wore traditional dress which kept them almost entirely covered.

Police covered up the front of the flat with a blue tarpaulin as they conducted searches.