New Delhi: British police has arrested four people on Wednesday in connection with the suicide bombings that killed 52 people in London in 2005.
The wife of 7th July bomber Mohammad Sidique Khan is among four people arrested. All were arrested on suspicion of commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.
Police said the arrests were following an intelligence-led operation, involving the Met's counter-terrorism command and units. They are being taken to London for interrogation.
All four were picked up from West Yorkshire and the West Midlands. The bombers struck on three subway trains and a double-decker bus on July 7, 2005 - the worst terrorist attack in British history.
Searches were under way at two apartments in Birmingham, and at five addresses in West Yorkshire - two houses in Dewsbury, two houses in the Beeston neighborhood of Leeds and one house in Batley, police said.
Mohammed Sidique Khan, identified as one of the four London bombers, was a resident of Dewsbury and had grown up in Beeston.
The bombers struck on three subway trains and a double-decker bus on July 7, 2005 - the worst terrorist attack in British history.
In March, police arrested three people, all from the same West Yorkshire area as three of the four suicide bombers. They were charged on April 5 with conspiring with the attackers.
Those charged were Mohammed Shakil, of Beeston; Sadeer Saleem, of Beeston; and Waheed Ali, who recently lived in London but was formerly from Beeston.
London's Metropolitan Police said they were continuing a ''painstaking investigation with a substantial amount of information being analyzed and investigated.''
(With AP inputs)
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