Counter-terrorism police lead probe into UK's bomb assault at immigration centre | World News

Britain's counter-terrorism police are actually main the investigation into an incident through which petrol bombs had been thrown at an immigration centre within the southern English port of Dover, police mentioned on Tuesday.

"What seems clear is that this despicable offence was focused and prone to be pushed by some type of hate stuffed grievance, although this may occasionally not essentially meet the edge of terrorism," police mentioned.

Police additionally recognized the suspect who threw the bombs on the immigration centre on Sunday as Andrew Leak, a 66 year-old man from Excessive Wycombe, southern England, who was later discovered useless at a close-by service station.

"There's presently nothing to recommend the person concerned was working alongside anybody else, and there's not believed to be any wider risk to the group within the Excessive Wycombe space or in Dover," the police assertion mentioned.

The Dover facility is the primary cease for 1000's of individuals making the damaging journey throughout the English Channel earlier than being despatched to different lodging whereas their claims to remain in Britain are reviewed.

The assault got here as British coverage in the direction of migrants and asylum seekers stays a heated political challenge.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak instructed his cupboard on Tuesday that the nation is a compassionate and welcoming place for asylum seekers, however that is depending on the nation having the ability to successfully police its borders.

Sunak's inside minister Suella Braverman is going through heavy criticism for describing the arrival of asylum seekers as an invasion.