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Urgent: UK police responding to security incident at U.S. airbase in Suffolk

Xinhua,December 18, 2017 Adjust font size:

LONDON, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- Police in Suffolk, southeastern Britain, were responding to a "significant incident" at RAF Mildenhall, a U.S. airforce base in Britain, the police tweeted Monday.

According to local media reports, a man has been arrested after allegedly attempting to drive through an entry point at the airforce base.

RAF Mildenhall was in lockdown following a "security incident", a spokesman for the defence ministry said. Enditem