Bomb attack on Ulez camera ‘grotesquely irresponsible’, says London mayor

Forensics check a property for damage in Sidcup, south-east London, after reports that a homemade bomb was used to damage a Ulez camera. Photograph: Grant Falvey/LNP

The London mayor’s office has condemned a “grotesquely irresponsible” attack in which a camera enforcing the city’s ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) was damaged with what appeared to be a homemade bomb, saying lives were put at risk.

There was no immediate reaction on the incident from Downing Street or the Home Office, with No 10 saying it could not comment amid a police inquiry, but that it condemned “criminality more generally”.