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Iraqi Teen Guilty of London Tube Bombing

Members of the emergency services work outside Parsons Green underground tube station in west London on September 15, 2017. DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP

An 18-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker was on Friday found guilty of attempted murder over the botched bombing of a packed commuter train that injured 30 people in London last September.

"The prosecution argued that Ahmed Hassan made this homemade bomb with the aim of indiscriminately killing as many people as possible. The jury has agreed," said Sue Hemming from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) after the verdict at London's Central Criminal Court.

He will be sentenced later.

Hassan planted the home-made bomb at Parsons Green station on Sept 15, 2017. The bomb shot flames through a carriage but failed to fully explode.

Prosecutors said there would have been many more injuries and probably deaths if the device had operated properly.

Hassan, who had moved to Britain after his parents were killed in Iraq, was arrested a day after the bombing.

He had claimed asylum and was living with a foster family near London before the attack.

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