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

SHOCKING: Police urged to treat dover petrol bomb attack as terrorism | Mind Blowing Facts

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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