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British police hold 2 over MI6 parcel bomb
01/08/2010 11:30AM
British police are questioning two men after a parcel bomb was sent to the headquarters of the MI6 foreign intelligence service and another was intercepted at a postal sorting office.
A Scotland Yrad spokesman says the Metropolitan Police Service is investigating two suspect packages addressed to premises in central London, declining to give details of the devices.
Two suspects, aged 52 and 21, were arrested in North Wales the next day and brought to London, where a magistrate granted warrants for further detention and questioning.
Located on the bank of the River Thames, the fortress-like headquarters of MI6 -- more formally known as the Secret Intelligence Agency -- suffered superficial damage in a rocket attack by dissident Irish republicans in 2000.
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