The alleged bomb plot at an RAF base was foiled when one of the suspects rang police himself, it has emerged.
One of the five men arrested close to RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire, in the early hours of Sunday had called 999.
Armed police rushed to the scene and rounded up the suspects, stripping them of their tops over fears they may have been wearing suicide vests.
A farmer who came across three suspicious vans blocking the country road said she saw ‘eight to 10 masked men’ running around in the woods and across fields. It is now understood those figures in the dark
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