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| Parsons Green bombing: Third arrest over Tube attack | Parsons Green bombing: Third arrest over Tube attack |
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| A third man has been arrested over Friday's Tube attack in Parsons Green. | |
| The 25-year-old was arrested in Newport, south Wales, on Tuesday evening, Scotland Yard said. An address in Newport is being searched. | |
| On Saturday an 18-year-old man was detained at Dover port, and a 21-year-old was arrested in Hounslow, west London. Both are still in custody. | |
| A homemade bomb partially exploded in a train at Parsons Green station, injuring 30 people in rush hour. | A homemade bomb partially exploded in a train at Parsons Green station, injuring 30 people in rush hour. |
| The 25-year-old was arrested under section 41 of the Terrorism Act. | |
| The arrest was carried out by the Met's Counter-Terrorism Command, supported by Gwent Police and the Welsh Extremism and Counter-Terrorism Unit. | |
| Metropolitan Police Commander Dean Haydon said: "This continues to be a fast-moving investigation. | Metropolitan Police Commander Dean Haydon said: "This continues to be a fast-moving investigation. |
| "A significant amount of activity has taken place since the attack on Friday. | "A significant amount of activity has taken place since the attack on Friday. |
| "We now have three men in custody and searches are continuing at four addresses." | "We now have three men in custody and searches are continuing at four addresses." |
| The others who have been arrested are an 18-year-old man, thought to have lived in a foster home owned by Ronald and Penelope Jones in Sunbury-on-Thames, who was arrested at Dover port on Saturday. | |
| He is thought to have moved to the UK from Iraq aged 15 when his parents died. | |
| The 21-year-old man, believed to be Syrian-born Yahyah Farroukh, was also arrested on Saturday. | |
| Mr Farroukh worked at Aladdins chicken shop in Hounslow, and has been described as a former foster child who had lived in the Jones's house. | |
| Mr Farroukh posted a picture on his Instagram page in May this year with a suitcase on Cavendish Road, Sunbury, almost directly outside the Jones's house. | |
| The properties already being searched are the Jones's house in Sunbury, Mr Farroukh's house in Stanwell, and a commercial property in Hounslow. | |
| At 08:20 BST on Friday a homemade bomb, which was transported in a Lidl bag, partially exploded in a Tube train at Parsons Green station, causing burns to a number of victims. | |
| BBC News has obtained CCTV footage showing a person leaving the property in Sunbury carrying a Lidl bag at 07:04 BST on Friday morning. |