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London terror arrests: Three teenage women held in operation that saw woman shot by police | London terror arrests: Three teenage women held in operation that saw woman shot by police |
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Three teenage women have been arrested on suspicion of terror offences in an operation linked to a raid on a house in north London that saw a woman shot and injured. | |
The suspects, two aged 18 and one aged 19, were detained after raids by the Metropolitan Police Counter-Terrorism Command in east London on Monday. | |
They are being questioned at a police station outside London on suspicion of the commission, preparation and instigation of terrorist acts. | They are being questioned at a police station outside London on suspicion of the commission, preparation and instigation of terrorist acts. |
The Met said the arrests were part of an "ongoing intelligence-led operation" linked to a similar raid on Thursday in Harlesden Road, north London, when a 21-year-old woman was shot by armed police. | |
She was discharged from hospital on Sunday afternoon and arrested by police on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism. | |
Six others were detained following Thursday's counter-terror raid, including a 16-year-old boy. | |
The house in Harlesden Road had been under surveillance by counter terrorism officers as part of an ongoing intelligence-led operation. | |
Police also detained a 27-year-old man last Thursday in what was described as a "targeted and intelligence-led arrest". | |
A bag of knives was found near him just a short walk from Downing Street and the House of Parliament. | |
The latest arrest brings the total number of suspects linked to the Harlesden operation to 10. | |
The arrests come amid heightened concerns about the threat of terrorism in the UK, which remains at severe. | |
In March, Khalid Masood killed five people after he drove a car at pedestrians and stabbed a police officer, in what police believe was an Islamist-inspired attack. |