Parsons Green Tube bomb: Teenager Ahmed Hassan to appear before court charged with attempted murder

Emergency workers help people to disembark a train near the Parsons Green
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Jason Collie13 October 2017
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A teenager will appear at the Old Bailey later charged over the Parsons Green terror attack which injured 30 Tube travellers.

Ahmed Hassan, 18, an Iraqi asylum seeker, has been accused of attempted murder and using the chemical compound TATP to cause an explosion that was likely to endanger life.

He allegedly bought parts to make the improvised explosive device online and left the District Line train at Putney Bridge before the device partially detonated at the next station on September 15.

Witnesses described how a fireball erupted inside the carriage, leaving 30 people injured, including one woman with serious burns.

Hassan, of Sunbury in Surrey, was arrested by counter-terrorism officers at the port of Dover in Kent the following day.

The teenager, whose parents are understood to have been killed in Iraq, was in the foster care of Penelope and Ronald Jones, aged 71 and 88 respectively, who previously received MBEs for services to children and families.

Hassan will make his first Crown Court appearance before senior judge Mr Justice Haddon-Cave via video link from custody.

Additional reporting by the Press Association

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