[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] A major atrocity was narrowly averted yesterday after a large nail bomb went kaboom!outside a mosque just two hours after the funeral of terror victim Lee Rigby.
The homemade device went
kaboom!near the Kanz Ul Iman Masjid mosque in Tipton, West Midlands, shortly after 1pm -- when up to 200 worshippers would normally have been in the area for Friday prayers.
However,
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the prayers had been moved back an hour because of Ramadan and no one was injured in the blast.
The bomb, which was left on a disused railway line behind the mosque, showered the area with nails and other debris.
Police were last night treating the kaboom as a terrorist incident and were investigating whether there are any links to a small kaboom near a mosque in nearby Walsall last month.
Officers were also examining whether there is any connection to right wing bully boys.
It was being treated as a suspected terror attack because of the size of the kaboom, the fact nails were included and it appeared to have been timed to coincide with the Friday prayers.
One police source said such factors "appear to indicate at this stage intent to cause serious injury or damage".
Residents in Tipton believed the attack had also been timed to coincide with the day of the funeral of Drummer Rigby in Bury.
The soldier died in an alleged Islamic terror attack in Woolwich, east London, in May.
Police in Tipton cordoned off an area of up to half a mile around Binfield Street while forensic experts, bomb specialists and counter-terrorism officers examined the scene.
Residents reported finding nails in gardens several hundred yards away.