From NBC News
By Alastair Jamieson, Staff writer, NBC News
LONDON – A suspected nail bomb explosion near a mosque in Britain is being treated as a “terrorist incident,” police said Friday, highlighting tensions in the wake of the slaying of a soldier.
There were no reports of injuries following the blast in Tipton, near Birmingham, England.
The explosion came on the same day as a high-profile funeral for British serviceman Lee Rigby, who was hacked to death on a street London in broad daylight.
Rigby’s May 22 killing shocked the country, and has been followed by a series of apparent attacks on mosques or places of Islamic worship.
In June, a fire at a London community center was linked to anti-Muslim protesters.
“An investigation is being led by the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit and it is being treated as a terrorist incident,” the West Midlands Police said on its website Friday.
