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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Matthew Weaver and Vikram Dodd

Police urged to treat Dover attack as terrorism, as suspect’s home searched

Man putting out fire
Soldiers and Border Force employees at the scene of the attack on Sunday. Photograph: Peter Nicholls/Reuters


The suspect in the attack on Sunday on a Dover immigration centre was a pensioner from Buckinghamshire, police have revealed, as questions grew over why the incident was not being treated as a potentially terrorist incident.

Kent police are leading the investigation, which follows petrol bombs being thrown at a migrant centre by a man in a car, and then shortly afterwards the body of a man being found at a petrol station.

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