Six Arrested at Manchester Airport in Terror Investigation
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jeff gynane/iStock/Thinkstock(MANCHESTER, United Kingdom) — Four people were arrested at Manchester Airport in the United Kingdom on Wednesday as part of an terrorism investigation.
A Greater Manchester Police press release said that the latest arrests are part of the same investigation that saw two people taken into custody on Tuesday. The four people arrested Wednesday were between the ages of 22 and 47, while the two arrested previously were identified only as a 21-year-old man and a 31-year-old man.
All six individuals were charged with commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism. They remain in policy custody and are being questioned, the press release said.
The investigation began after nine people were stopped at the Turkey/Syria border by Turkish officials earlier this month, the police said. Officers are working to establish the reason those nine people — five adults and four children, part of one family — were attempting entry into Syria.
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