Single gram of bucket bomber’s explosive brew could cause ‘serious harm’

A single gram of the volatile home-made explosive used by the Parsons Green bucket bomber could cause serious damage, an explosives expert said today (fri). Iraqi asylum seeker Ahmed Hassan, 18, injured 30 commuters after detonating the device loaded with nails, screws and knives, causing the packed District Line carriage to erupt in a ‘fireball’, the Old Bailey heard. Hassan, who entered the UK illegally on the back of a lorry in 2015, made the bomb using the explosive triacetate…