Six are arrested after police smash ISIS cell planning Xmas shopping bomb plot in Britain.
Police have smashed a suspected ISIS terror cell who may have been plotting to bomb Christmas shoppers in Britain.
Army bomb squad teams cordoned off residential streets yesterday as they raided a suspected bomb-making factory.
Officers armed with assault rifles made dawn raids on six addresses in Derby, London and Burton upon Trent.
Five men and one woman were arrested, including one suspect said to be an asylum seeker who may not have been in Britain for long.
The raids follow months of surveillance by police and MI5, who believe they have foiled a plot to attack Britain linked to ‘international-related terrorism’, describing the operation to detain them as 'significant'.
Security sources have claimed that their target may have been a shopping centre in the run up to Christmas.
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