Four people, including the two grandchildren of a South African anti-apartheid activist, were arrested in Britain in connection with deadly bombings in London two years ago, News24 reported on Thursday.
The British media said Hasina Patel, 30-year-old widow of one of the bombers, Mohammad Sidique Khan, was one of the four held by police.
Patel is the granddaughter of anti-apartheid activist Ismail Patel of Germiston on the East Rand. He died in 1973 after being under house arrest for 10 years.
Hasina’s mother, Farida, who was also born in South Africa, was described as a pillar of her community, who had been invited to Buckingham Palace for tea in recognition of her work as a teacher.
Hasina’s husband was one of the four men responsible for the death of 52 people on July 7 2005, in three different bomb explosions in the London underground, and one on a London bus.
Hasina and two men, aged 29 and 34, were taken into custody in West Yorkshire on Wednesday morning.
BBC Radio 4 identified one of the men on Wednesday night as Ashad Patel, Hasina’s brother.
Another 22-year-old man was arrested in Birmingham.
Police sources told the Evening Standard newspaper the four people were suspected of knowing about the bombings — rather than being actively involved — but not telling the police about them. – Sapa