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Police dealing with “disturbance” at London immigration center amid reports of armed detainees




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The police were deployed to a immigration center near London on Saturday after what they called “disturbation”.

CNN reported that those detained inside the facility armed themselves with knives and wooden blocks.

A UK Home Office spokesman told CNN on Saturday that there was a power outage at the Harmondsworth immigration center “and work is currently underway to address this.”

It added “the well-being and safety of employees and individuals detained at Harmondsworth is our top priority.”

Officers arrived at the Harmondsworth facility Friday night to “assist staff in dealing with the disturbance” and remained there until Saturday morning, a spokesman for the city’s Metropolitan Police told CNN.

There have been no reports of injuries from the site, CNN is aware of.

It comes as the UK’s Home Office is being criticized for its treatment of migrants and asylum seekers, with Mayor of London Sadiq Khan called for “urgent review.”

Police say a separate incident in which a man threw a “rude incendiary device” at the Western Jet Foil Home immigration center in the port of Dover, southern England last Sunday was motivated by extremism, police said.

The UK’s counter-terrorism police (CTPSE) said in a statement on Saturday that the attack was motivated by a “terrorist ideology”.

“After reviewing the evidence gathered to date in this case, although there are strong indications that mental health may be a factor, I am pleased that the main suspect’s actions are mainly driven by an extremist ideology. This meets the threshold for a terrorist incident,” said Tim Jacques, Senior National Coordinator for Counterterrorism Policy.

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