Terror police have launched an investigation after three devices were found within a train station and buildings near two airports.
Counter-terror police are leading the investigation after the devices were found to be explosive, Irish police are now supporting the police.
devices were delivered to Waterloo rail station and administration buildings at Heathrow and London City airports.
Sky News has released two images of the packages which were A4 sized white postal bags, inside the bags, there was a yellow jiffy bag which contained an explosive device.
On the packaging two Irish love heart stamps appear, with the words “Love Eire N” the stamp was issued last year as a wedding stamp by Ireland’s postal service.
One of the packages also included a return to the sender address of Dublin. Garda Police have released a statement confirming they are working with Scotland Yard.
“Garda Siochana are assisting the Metropolitan Police with their enquiries.”
First device 9.55amÂ
Officers were alerted to a suspicious package at The Compass Centre, an office within Heathrow Airport at 9.55am after a package was opened causing part of the package to burn.
Police confirmed that opening the package caused the “device to initiate [which] resulted in part of the package burning”.
This resulted in the building being immediately evacuated thankfully no one within this incident was hurt.
Second Device 11.40am
Police was then alerted to a second suspicious package at Waterloo Rail Station after another device was sent to the postal room.
Exactly the same as the first package it was contained within a white package, a cordon was put in place but the station continued to operate as normal.
The building was evacuated but there were no injuries. It remains closed as police continue their enquiries.
At 11.40am, police were called to Waterloo rail station, where another device had been sent to the post room after a male member of staff opened the packaged, he has been told he is not allowed to “talk about it” to the media.
Third device 12.10pm
Police were then alerted to a third suspicious package at Aviaton House an administration building attached to London City Airport.
It was decided that the building would be evacuated for the safety of the 100 staff working within the building.
The package was delivered exactly the same as the two previous packages it is not known if this package was activated.
Police Say they are small improvised explosive devices
Counter-terrorism police have now said that these small improvised explosive devices are being treated as linked, but detectives are keeping an open mind in relation to any motives.
A spokesperson commented saying that these devices are “not sophisticated” and that they appear only capable of causing a fright to the person opening the packages which are only capable of igniting an initially small fire when they are opened.
It is believed if these packages were sent by Irish dissidents they would have been more sophisticated and would be designed to be more harmful, therefore it is not believed to have been sent by Irish Dissidents.
Leading Counter-terrorism police to rule out that they are looking for Irish dissident republicans but they are not closer to knowing who it was.
Police have made no arrests in relation to the packages.
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