London, March 21, 2025 (AFP) - Ex-hospital worker jailed over pressure cooker bomb threat

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A former UK hospital worker was jailed for 37 years on Friday after a patient talked him out of detonating a homemade pressure cooker bomb in a maternity ward. Prosecutors said Mohammad Farooq was a "self-radicalised lone wolf terrorist" inspired by the Islamic State group. They said he had planned to "kill as many nurses as possible" when he took the bomb into St James's Hospital in Leeds, northern England, in January 2023. But the 29-year-old "......

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