London preparing for ‘ten simultaneous terror attacks | Metro

Police Nationale handout photo of their wanted notice of Salah Abdeslam, a 26-year-old man born in Brussels, who has been wounded and captured in a huge anti-terror operation in Brussels after four months on the run. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Friday March 18, 2016. French police officials and the Belgian migration minister Theo Francken confirmed his arrest on Friday. Abdeslam suffered a leg injury and a second man was also injured during the operation, according to Belgian media. See PA story POLICE Paris. Photo credit should read: Police Nationale/PA Wire

Authorities are preparing for ‘up to ten simultaneous terror attacks in London’.

The SAS and Met police are undergoing training that will help them deal with multiple attacks following the massacre in Paris, according to the Sunday Times.

‘We used to plan for three simultaneous attacks but Paris has shown that you need to be ready for more than that,’ an unnamed minister told the newspaper.

‘We are ready if someone tries with seven, eight, nine, ten.’

The army is also apparently ready to step in to help, with its counterterrorist bomb disposal unit launching a new team at Oxfordshire’s Didcot barracks that will specialise in chemical bombs.

The Times added there were fears terrorists coming back from Syria could launch attacks and The National Crime Agency was cracking down on firearms in the UK as a result.

A suspect in the Paris attacks Salah Abdeslam was arrested in Belgium on Friday, with a source claiming police deliberately shot the 26-year-old as revenge for him attacking their colleagues previously.

 

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