Sweden suicide bomber’s wife arrested by police

The wife of a man who carried out a suicide bombing in Sweden last year has been arrested by police in Britain.

It is understood Mona Thwany, the wife of Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly who killed himself and injured two people in Stockholm in December, was arrested on Tuesday in Luton.

Scotland Yard confirmed that a 28-year-old woman had been arrested on suspicion of carrying out preparatory acts for a terrorist attack. She has been bailed until mid-November.

Abdulwahab, 28, killed himself and wounded two people in a botched attack in the Swedish capital on 11 December last year.The Swedish authorities said the bombing appeared “well-planned” and worked on the assumption that the Iraq-born Bedfordshire University graduate was helped by others.

An audio message had been e-mailed to police and a Swedish news agency before the attack in which a man, thought to be Abdulwahab, warned that “we are for real and do now exist among you Europeans”.

At the time of the attack his beauty stylist wife Mona told reporters she had no idea of his plans and was “devastated”.

Abdulwahab left the family home to travel to Sweden several weeks before his attack.