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| Walsall mosque bomb: Two men arrested | Walsall mosque bomb: Two men arrested |
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| Two men have been arrested in connection with an explosion near a mosque in Walsall last month. | Two men have been arrested in connection with an explosion near a mosque in Walsall last month. |
| A "loud bang" was heard by people near the Aisha Mosque, in Rutter Street, on Friday, 21 June. | A "loud bang" was heard by people near the Aisha Mosque, in Rutter Street, on Friday, 21 June. |
| A 25-year-old and 22-year-old, both Eastern European, are being questioned by detectives from the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit. | A 25-year-old and 22-year-old, both Eastern European, are being questioned by detectives from the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit. |
| An area near Talbot Way, Small Heath, Birmingham, is being searched. Some nearby properties have been evacuated. | An area near Talbot Way, Small Heath, Birmingham, is being searched. Some nearby properties have been evacuated. |
| 'Suspect forced down' | |
| Parts of Small Heath Highway, Golden Hillock Road, and Coventry Road are closed. | |
| One eyewitness told BBC WM about 100 people had initially been evacuated from businesses close to the area being searched. | |
| Embreen Hashmi said: "All of a sudden there was an entourage of police and they cordoned off the whole business park and everybody had to come out on to the street. | |
| "We weren't sure what it was and everybody was saying that it was some sort of bomb scare which frightened us. | |
| "When we spoke to people that worked in the same building as one of the suspects he said there was a chap that they used to work with and that he was actually being forced down by armed police and they had to evacuate the building." | |
| Police were called to the mosque the day after the explosion was heard after a member of the public discovered debris from a device. | |
| A 75-year-old man from Walsall was arrested last month but has since been eliminated from enquiries. |