13/02/2014

Second House Searched In Britain Following Death In Syria

Counter-terrorism police have searched a second house in the UK in connection with the conflict in Syria.

Officers searched a house in Manchester after 20-year-old Anil Khalil Raoufi, of Brooklawn Drive, Didsbury, died after travelling to the war zone.

Police are hoping to establish why Mr Raoufi went to Syria and and became involved in the conflict.

It follows a search carried out on Wednesday in West Sussex on the home of Abdul Waheed Majid.

Mr Majid is believed to have died in a suicide bombing in the city of Aleppo. It is thought that Mr Majid was the suicide bomber who carried out an attack on a prison in the city.

(MH/JP)

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