Days before Olympic starts, Five arrest in London

London. Just 22 days before the Olympic games starts, British police on Thursday arrested five men and one woman in London as part of a pre-planned intelligence-led operation. However The Metropolitan Police clarified that the operation was not linked to the forthcoming Olympic Games.
According to details released by the police, one man, 29, was arrested in the street in west London, while another man, 21, and the woman, 30, were arrested at separate residential premises in west London.
Three other men, aged, 26, 18 and 24, were arrested at a residential premises in east London. The 24-year-old man was tasered during his arrest, but did not require hospital treatment, the police added.
Searches under the Terrorism Act 2000 were also being carried out at eight residential premises in east, west and north London and one business premises in east London.

Police said the incident involved a passenger seen acting suspiciously on a coach, and did not discount the possibility that it could be terrorism-related. Initial reports said the passenger was seen pouring some kind of fluid into a bag which then started smoking onboard the coach.

Army bomb disposal personnel were at the scene, as were fire and ambulance services, who have reportedly set up decontamination units.