Policemen accompany clients of a store outside a cordoned off off area after a van ploughed into the crowd, killing 13 persons and injuring over 80 on the Rambla in Barcelona on August 17, 2017. A driver deliberately rammed a van into a crowd on Barcelona’s most popular street on August 17, 2017 killing at least 13 people before fleeing to a nearby bar, police said. Officers in Spain’s second-largest city said the ramming on Las Ramblas was a “terrorist attack”. / AFP
London – A 27-year-old female British national has been arrested at Heathrow Airport after arriving on a flight from Ethiopia on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts, Scotland Yard said on Friday.
According to the police, the woman was arrested on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts under section five of the Terrorist Act 2006.
Metropolitan Police said the suspect was detained under PACE and taken to a south London police station, where she currently remains in police custody.
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