The United Kingdom Home secretary Theresa May “urges the public to remain silent and to report any suspicious activity to the police”.
Reports on BBC suggests that UK government raised the terror threat level to “Severe” which means that a terror attack is “highly likely” but there is not enough intelligence to conclude its imminent.
Recent activities of the IS a ‘strategic terrorist organization’ has been cited has the cause, May said “The increase in the threat level is related to development in Syria and Iraq where terrorists are planning attacks which involve foreign fighters that emigrated from UK to take part in the fight.
The police are also expected to increase the levels of visible patrol and implement security and protective measures to counter the new threat before it turns “critical”