LONDON (Reuters) - Explosives experts defused a car bomb in central London on Friday and counter-terrorism police said the petrol, gas and nail-packed device could have caused significant loss of life.
The bomb was in a car parked outside a nightclub in the busy heart of London shortly after 1 a.m., when hundreds of people were in the vicinity, Peter Clarke, the head of London's anti-terrorist police, told a news conference.
"It is obvious that if the device had detonated there could have been significant injury or loss of life," he said. Police find bomb in London (more)
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