‘Bucket Bomber’ wanted to cause ‘maximum carnage’

The Parsons Green bucket bomber loaded an explosive device with more than two kilos of nails, screws and knives to cause ‘maximum carnage’ on a rush hour Tube train, a court heard. Iraqi asylum seeker Ahmed Hassan, 18, injured 30 commuters after detonating the device in the packed District Line carriage, the Old Bailey heard. Hassan made the bomb using the explosive triacetate triperoxide (TATP) which was packed into a Tupperware container and glass vase inside the white bucket. The…