Plot to kill British PM foiled

ANI  |  London [U.K.] 

A terror plot to assassinate British Prime Minister has been foiled, according to Sky News.

The enforcement agencies have arrested Naa'imur Zakariyah Rahman, 20, from north and Mohammed Aqib Imran, 21, from

south-east Birmingham.

They will be produced before Westminster Magistrates' on terror charges on Wednesday.

"The plan was to launch some sort of improvised explosive device at Downing Street and in the ensuing chaos attack and kill Theresa May," the report quoted Sky's Crime Correspondent Martin Brunt as saying.

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First Published: Wed, December 06 2017. 07:22 IST