London, England - POLICE have briefly thrown a security cordon around a mosque in east London, a day after four attempted bombings in the British capital, BBC News 24 television reported.
The East London Mosque on Whitechapel Road, one of the biggest and most modern in the capital, was surrounded by police officers, some of whom were armed, a woman at the scene told the news channel by telephone.
Not long afterwards, BBC reported the police had been stood down.
"There was a bomb threat at the East London mosque and there was a cordon," a police officer said at the scene told Reuters.
"It's all cleared, that's it."