Police have discovered a “suspicious substance” at an handle in Birmingham after concentrating on a terror cell with reported hyperlinks to the atrocities in Paris and Brussels.
4 males and a lady have been arrested as a part of an investigation involving MI5 and authorities in France and Belgium.
Detectives detained three males, aged 26, forty and fifty nine, and a 29-yr-previous lady, in Birmingham on Thursday night time.
A 26-yr-previous man was arrested at Gatwick Airport within the early hours of Friday.
All 5 individuals arrested have been held on suspicion of worrying within the fee, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.
On Saturday, it emerged that specialist police attended an tackle in Birmingham and a “suspicious substance” was discovered.
Sources, reported within the Guardian newspaper, prompt that the raid was within the Small Heath space of the town.
A West Midlands police spokesman stated: “Throughout a search of an tackle in reference to the counter-terrorism arrests in Birmingham, a suspicious substance was discovered.
“A specialist unit attended as a precautionary measure. There was no quick hazard to the general public and it was not essential to evacuate any houses.”
Assistant Chief Constable Marcus Beale stated quite a few properties in Birmingham have been being searched after the pre-deliberate and “intelligence-led” arrests.
There isn’t any info to recommend an assault within the UK was being deliberate, he added.
All 5 suspects are being held within the West Midlands, the place they’re being questioned by specialist officers.