UK police arrest man at center of siege

The 50-year-old man was seen being led away just over three hours after armed police and an explosives team were called to an office building on the area.

The incident produced chaos in central London as police imposed a 300-metre cordon around the area after a witness said a man had arrived at the office of Advantage HGV with gas canisters strapped to his body and threatened to blow himself up.

It was also reported that the man was throwing computers and other equipment out of a window.

Images on Twitter showed various items being thrown from the building, including computer monitors and piles of paper.
Businesses were closed and shoppers evacuated on one of the country’s busiest streets amid reports that a hostage situation was underway.

Abby Baafi, the head of training and operations, said she recognised the man as a customer of the company, which provides HGV (heavy goods vehicle) training courses.

“He turned up, strapped up with gasoline cylinders, and threatened to blow up the office,” Baafi said at the scene.
“He said he doesn’t care about his life. He doesn’t care about anything, he is going to blow up everybody.”

She said the man had failed an HGV training course and wanted his money back.

British people are struggling to meet their needs as the country is embroiled in a double-dip recession amid a financial crisis heated up by the government’s austerity policies.

Britain is in the grip of a modern financial crisis, one that it is addressing by preaching parsimony and making deep public-sector cuts.

But even as it grapples with nearly nonexistent economic growth and an 8.4 percent unemployment rate, the highest in 17 years, it is spending almost $15 billion (and counting) to host the Olympics Games.

Another burden on the UK’s fragile economic situation is the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, whose celebrations are set to throw the British economy into reverse again.

Actually the country faces a long battle to get back to the kind of growth it enjoyed before the financial crisis.

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