UK village on edge over threats to air base in terror alert
RESIDENTS in a bucolic corner of southwestern England said they were “spooked” by an air base used by the US military in its war against Iran as bomb experts descended on the area on Sunday.
Residents of Whelford, a village in southwestern England, expressed alarm over threats to the nearby US military air base, RAF Fairford. On Sunday, bomb experts arrived in the area to investigate suspicious vehicles after authorities received an alert. Police arrested five men on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act but have not confirmed the nature of the threat.
Authorities evacuated 85 households from the village, including Stephanie's family, to a leisure center in Cirencester. Stephanie, a 20-year-old university student, described the situation as exhausting and said she had been surprised by the danger. The village, nestled in the Cotswolds, is typically quiet, but with the US military using the air base for "specific defensive operations into Iran," residents are understandably spooked.
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