Report: Car found near London park

Report: Car found near London park connected to bomb investigation

LONDON (AP) – A suspicious vehicle found near London’s Hyde Park is connected to a car bomb defused earlier by British police, Sky News TV reported Friday.

Police closed Park Lane, on Hyde Park’s eastern side, to investigate a suspicious vehicle and set up a 200-meter (650-feet) cordon around the car. The road was closed hours after authorities defused a car packed with explosives in the city’s West End.

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Police in London’s bustling nightclub and theater district on Friday defused a bomb that could have killed hundreds, after an ambulance crew spotted smoke coming from a Mercedes filled with a lethal mix of gasoline, propane and nails, authorities said. The bomb near Piccadilly Circus was powerful enough to have caused “significant injury or loss of life” – possibly killing hundreds, British anti-terror police chief Peter Clarke said.

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