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Authorities Hunt for Clues Behind Foiled Terror Attack on Plane


Dec. 26: Police enter the basement of a building where police are searching in Mansfield Street in London.

Police in the U.K. are searching a number of locations in connection with an alleged attempt to blow up a jet carrying 278 people as it landed in Detroit, while authorities meet with a Nigerian banker that may be the father of the suspect.

Multiple law enforcement officials identified the suspect in Friday's attempted attack as Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab. He was described as Nigerian and believed to be an engineering student at London's University College, the Times of London reported.

U.S. authorities claim he has links to Al Qaeda and are working with London Metropolitan police to search addresses with possible connections to the suspected terror attack.

A spokeswoman for Scotland Yard said that U.K. police are in contact with U.S. authorities and that searches are being carried out at addresses in central London.

She refused to confirm the number and location of the searches.

A spokesperson for University College London said that while a student with the same name attended the school, it cannot be determined whether they are the same person.

Mutallab was apprehended by fellow passengers and crew on flight 253, from Amsterdam to Detroit yesterday, as he tried to detonate an incendiary device of powder and liquid strapped to his leg. The mixture failed to explode properly but caught fire, leaving him with third degree burns, the London Times reports.

Mutallab has reportedly told investigators he is linked to Al Qaeda and obtained the explosives in Yemen.

An intelligence official said he was being questioned and treated in an Ann Arbor, Mich., hospital. The hospital said one passenger from the flight was taken to the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor, but referred all inquiries to the FBI.

Melinda Dennis, who was seated in the front row of the plane, said the man involved was brought to the front row and seated near her. She said his legs appeared to be badly burned and his pants were cut off. She said he was taken off the plane handcuffed to a stretcher.
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