LONDON, UK. (THECOUNT) — A pair of inmates wearing crudely fashioned suicide belts attacked and wounded several guards at England’s maximum-security Whitemoor prison, police said Friday.
One of the suspects has been identified as Brusthom Ziamani. Ziamani, 24, was imprisoned over a plot to behead a British soldier.
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Detectives are treating the incident as a terrorist attack.
The Metropolitan Police force said the officer was injured in the head and neck with “improvised bladed weapons” during the Thursday attack at Whitemoor prison in eastern England. Four other prison staff members who came to the guard’s assistance were also hurt, reports DailyJournal.
All five were treated at a hospital and released.
Police said the attackers were “wearing belts with various items crudely attached.” The two inmates were subdued and detained by prison staff.
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Dean Haydon, the force’s counterterrorism coordinator, said the violence was being treated as a terrorist attack, “and the investigation continues at pace.”
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