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| Barricaded suspect threatens to blow up & burn entire block in East London | Barricaded suspect threatens to blow up & burn entire block in East London |
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| Police in Barking and Dagenham are trying to defuse a “critical incident” unfolding in a suburban town in East London, after a man barricaded himself inside the flat and threatened to blow up the building. | Police in Barking and Dagenham are trying to defuse a “critical incident” unfolding in a suburban town in East London, after a man barricaded himself inside the flat and threatened to blow up the building. |
| Residents residing in Earlsdown House in Barking have been evacuated from their flats as police officers continue to engage a man who threatened to burn down an entire block. | Residents residing in Earlsdown House in Barking have been evacuated from their flats as police officers continue to engage a man who threatened to burn down an entire block. |
| “Police negotiators are currently on scene talking to a male on the 7th floor of a block of flats who has barricaded himself inside and threatening to blow the flat up and burn the block down,” Barking and Dagenham Police force said in a tweet. | “Police negotiators are currently on scene talking to a male on the 7th floor of a block of flats who has barricaded himself inside and threatening to blow the flat up and burn the block down,” Barking and Dagenham Police force said in a tweet. |
| London fire department and ambulances were also called to the scene in case negotiators fail to get the man to surrender. | |
| According to an eyewitness, the suspect has petrol which he is not afraid to use to destroy the 12-story tower block."The whole block has been evacuated. I don’t know how many, it’s every person and family evacuated," the unnamed female witness told the Evening Standard. “Parents aren’t even allowed to [go] back and get baby milk and nappies. They don’t know how long it will go on for.” | |
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