White powder sent to UK Muslim lawmaker sparks parliament alert

LONDON: Police locked down parts of Britain’s Houses of Parliament on Thursday after a Muslim lawmaker was sent an envelope containing white power, sparking fears

LONDON: Police locked down parts of Britain’s Houses of Parliament on Thursday after a Muslim lawmaker was sent an envelope containing white power, sparking fears of a chemical or biological attack. Nazir Ahmed’s office in the House of Lords, the car park and the terrace were closed for an hour and a half after he found the powder in a letter containing racist abuse. They were treating it as a chemical or biological incident,” the peer said, adding: “Thank God it was not dangerous. I have received racist, abusive, insulting and Islamaphobic letters before, but never with white powder. This was frightening, as our colleague Jo Cox was murdered a few weeks ago.”

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