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UK Threat Level Raised to “Critical” after Subway Bombing

Fire brigade officers walk within a cordon near where an incident happened, that police say they are investigating as a terrorist attack, at Parsons Green subway
station in London, Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. A suspicious device caught fire on a packed London subway train Friday, sending commuters stampeding in panic at the
height of the morning rush hour. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
LONDON (AP) — A home- sparked a huge manhunt highest possible level. in a plastic bucket inside The Islamic State group
made bomb planted in for the perpetrators of what May said military troops a supermarket freezer bag claimed responsibility for
a rush-hour subway car police said was the fourth would augment the police — only partially explod- the attack, which it said
exploded in London on terrorist attack in the British presence in a “proportion- ed, sparing the city much was carried out by an affili-
Friday, injuring 29 people capital this year. ate and sensible step.” worse carnage. ated unit. The bomb went
and prompting authorities Prime Minister Theresa May, Earlier, May said the device “I would say this was a failed off around 8:20 a.m. as the
to raise Britain’s terrorism acting on the recommen- had been “intended to high-explosive device,” train, carrying commuters
threat level to “critical,” dation of the Joint Terrorism cause significant harm.” Chris Hunter, a former British from the suburbs was at
meaning another attack Analysis Center, raised the Still, to the relief of authori- army bomb expert, said of Parsons Green station in the
may be imminent. country’s threat level from ties and Londoners, experts the blast, which caused no southwest of the city.
The early morning blast “severe” to “critical” — its said the bomb — hidden serious injuries. Continued on Page 2

Crowds Gather to Protest Former St. Louis Officer Acquittal

By JIM SALTER streamed into the streets of including possible efforts to By mid-afternoon, officers The case played out not far
Associated Press downtown St. Louis to pro- shut down highways. Barri- had used pepper spray on from the suburb of Fergu-
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A white test the verdict that had cades went up last month some demonstrators. son, which was the scene
former police officer was stirred fears of civil unrest around police headquar- The judge who decided of the fatal shooting of Mi-
acquitted Friday in the 2011 for weeks. ters, the courthouse where the matter declared that chael Brown, the unarmed
death of a black man who Ahead of the acquittal, ac- the trial was held and other he would not be swayed black 18-year-old who was
was fatally shot following tivists threatened civil dis- potential protest sites. Pro- by “partisan interests, pub- killed by a white police of-
a high-speed chase, and obedience if Jason Stock- testers were on the march lic clamor or fear of criti- ficer in 2014.
hundreds of demonstrators ley were not convicted, within hours of the decision. cism.” Continued on Page3