MI5 foils alleged terrorist plot to kill British Prime Minister Theresa May at Downing Street
Two men are to appear in court charged with the terror plot
Britain has foiled an Islamist suicide plot to kill Prime Minister Theresa May with a bomb in Downing Street, Sky news reported, citing unidentified sources.
Police and security services believe the plotters planned to launch an improvised explosive device at Downing Street – where the premier lives – and then kill May in the ensuing chaos, Sky said.
Such is the seriousness of the plot that the director general of MI5, Britain’s domestic security agency, briefed cabinet ministers on the plot, Sky said.
Sky said the plot was foiled with the arrest last week of two men by armed police.
London police said that two men arrested last week had been charged with terrorism offences and would appear in Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday.
It identified them as Naa’imur Zakariyah Rahman, 20, of north London, and Mohammed Aqib Imran, 21, of southeast Birmingham.