Man arrested in Watford after bomb squad destroys suspicious package

Police confirm man in niqab arrested after town centre is cleared for controlled explosion of package outside Travelodge A man in a niqab has been arrested after army bomb-disposal experts made a controlled explosion of a suspicious package in Watford. Cars and buses were left abandoned as police forced civilians to clear the town centre on Thursday while the bomb squad deployed a robot to detonate a suspicious package outside a Travelodge.