LONDON – Police arrested a man Wednesday in Northern Ireland in connection with the 1974 bombings of two pubs that killed 21 people and injured more than 200 in Birmingham, England.Officers from the West Midlands counter-terrorism unit, working with colleagues from the Police Service of Northern Ireland, arrested a 65-year-old man at his home in Belfast, West Midlands Police said.
The man was arrested under the U.K.'s Terrorism Act, and his home was being searched, authorities said. The arrest came days before the 46th anniversary of the two Nov.