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Abdul Ezedi manhunt: Armed police raid two Newcastle properties in search for Clapham attack suspect

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Armed police executed two warrants in Newcastle in the early hours of Thursday morning at addresses associated with alkali attack suspect Abdul Ezedi, the Metropolitan Police said.

The force said the raids, carried out with Northumbria Police, included his place of work but no arrests have been made.

Met detectives have been searching for Afghan refugee Ezedi since a mother and her two daughters, aged three and eight, were doused with a corrosive alkaline liquid in Clapham, south London last Wednesday night.

On Wednesday, officers said Ezedi and the 31-year-old victim, who is still too ill

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