Police chief: Suicide bombers responsible for attacks
Police have concluded suicide bombers carried out the attacks on London underground trains and a bus last week, London’s police chief said today.
“You don’t need to be a suicide bomber in a liberal democracy. They have chosen to be,” Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair said in the first public confirmation from police that the attackers were suicide bombers.
Blair said police believe “that we know who the four people carrying the bombs were and we believe they are all dead”.
“We are as certain as we can be that four people were killed and they were the four people carrying bombs,” Blair added.
News reports have quoted police sources as saying that three of the bombers were Britons of Pakistani descent.
Today, Sky News and the BBC quoted police sources as saying they believed the fourth bomber was a British resident who was born in Jamaica.
Blair declined to comment on that report.
