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Parsons Green attack: Man (18) charged with attempted murder

Ahmed Hassan from Surrey will appear in court on Friday after London tube attack

Police outside a property in Thornton Heath, south London, after a teenager was arrested by detectives investigating the Parsons Green terrorist attack, bringing the number of people being held to six. Photograph: Catherine Wylie/PA Wire
Police outside a property in Thornton Heath, south London, after a teenager was arrested by detectives investigating the Parsons Green terrorist attack, bringing the number of people being held to six. Photograph: Catherine Wylie/PA Wire
Fri Sept 22 2017 - 13:23

An 18-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder and possessing explosives over the Parsons Green Tube terrorist attack.

Ahmed Hassan, of Sunbury, in Surrey, is accused of attempting to murder people travelling on a District Line train in last Friday's bombing, Scotland Yard said.

He also faces a charge of using a chemical compound known as TATP to cause an explosion likely to endanger life.

He will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday afternoon.

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