A man claiming to be from rightwing terror group Combat 18 yesterday said it carried out the Brixton nail-bombing that injured 39 people, London police said.
Officers received an anonymous 999 call at 6.06 a.m. from a telephone box on Well Hall Road, Eltham, south east London - a few hundred yards from where black teenager Stephen Lawrence was murdered by racist youths in April 1993.
Scotland Yard detectives said they could not rule out the phone call being a hoax.
Speaking at a news conference at New Scotland Yard, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Alan Fry said: "This line of inquiry is being taken very seriously but there is absolutely no evidence and there is no intelligence at this time to support this claim." The caller made an error saying the bomb had gone off "yesterday" instead of Saturday, the briefing was told.
Mr Fry said that detectives were studying closed circuit-television footage taken at the site. A number of people were seen moving a black Head sports bag containing the bomb in the moments running up to the explosion outside an Iceland store in Electric Avenue.