Four quizzed over 7/7 bombings

Police are continuing to question four people, including the widow of July 7 suicide bomber Mohammed Sidique Khan, in connection with the London attacks.

On Thursday, detectives were given more time to quiz Hasina Patel, 29, her brother Arshad and two other men under the Terrorism Act over suspected connections to the 2005 attacks in which 52 people died.

Unarmed police made the arrests after swooping on addresses across West Yorkshire and the West Midlands on Wednesday.

Patel and two of the men, aged 30 and 34, were arrested in Batley and Leeds, while the third man, aged 22, was arrested in the Selly Oak area of Birmingham.

As well as Arshad Patel, the other men being held are Khalid Khaliq - who is thought to have connections with an Islamic bookshop - and Imran Motala.

All four, held on suspicion of the commission, preparation, or instigation of acts of terrorism, were then taken to the high security Paddington Green police station in central London for questioning.

Properties in Dewsbury, Batley, Beeston in south Leeds, and Birmingham were meanwhile cordoned off for forensic investigation.

Two years ago four suicide bombers exploded devices in three packed rush hour London Underground Tube trains and a crowded bus, killing 52 people.

The perpetrators - ringleader Khan, Shehzad Tanweer, Jermaine Lindsay and Hasib Hussain - all died.

Last month, three men - Mohammed Shakil, 30, Sadeer Saleem, 26, and Waheed Ali, 23, from Beeston, Leeds - became the first people to appear in court charged with conspiring with the four bombers.

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