WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- Yemeni authorities detained a woman Saturday suspected of having a role in sending two bombs to the United States on Chicago-bound cargo planes.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said the United States and United Arab Emirates gave him information that identified the woman as a suspect, Sky News reported.
Meanwhile, British Prime Minister David Cameron said it appeared one bomb discovered in England was meant to detonate aboard the aircraft, possibly over British soil, The Daily Telegraph reported.
"We believe that the device was designed to go off on the airplane," Cameron said. "There is no early evidence that it was designed to go off over British soil, but, of course, we cannot rule that out".
The second device was found on a plane in the United Arab Emirates.
The British newspaper said U.S. and British security officials suspect American-born Anwar al-Awlaki of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula had a hand in the plot.
Yemeni security officials said the woman in custody was a medical student at Sana'a University and believed to be in her 20s, the Telegraph said. Her lawyer said the woman's mother also was detained, though she wasn't a prime suspect.
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