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LONDON, Oct 17 (KUNA) -- The UK is facing big security challenges to deal with unprecedented continued terror threats, said Andrew Parker, director general of MI5, on Tuesday.
In an interview with BBC, he warned that there is an unprecedented terror activity targeting Britain rapidly and at random, saying it cannot be difficult to predict it.
Parker said the UK had seen "a dramatic upshift in the threat" from Islamist terrorism this year, mirroring attacks that have taken occurred in Westminster, Manchester and London Bridge.
"It's at the highest tempo I have seen in my 34-year career. Today there is more terrorist activity, coming at us more quickly, and it can be harder to detect," he said, according to BBC.
Britain's security apparatuses had managed over the last four years to foil about 20 terror plots, he said.
He referred that about 130 British people, who joined the so-called Islamic State, were killed in Syria and Iraq.
Britain's interior ministry has recently revealed in a report that the number of people arrested on terrorism charges from June, 2016 to June, 2017 rose to 379, the highest number recorded since the beginning of the documentation in September 2001, he noted. (end)
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