Two teenage boys from south London are among five arrested on suspicion for terrorism offences.

Police arrested a 17-year-old and a 16-year-old at separate residential addresses south of the river on Monday, February 20.

The Metropolitan Police, when approached, would not disclose any further information on the two boys.

Two other teenage boys, aged 17 and 19, were also arrested by officers from the MPS Counter Terrorism Command at an address in west London on the same day.

And a 15-year-old boy was arrested yesterday in east London. Police are currently searching the residential address where he was arrested.

The arrests follow searches of four residential addresses in the capital on Tuesday, February 14.

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: “All five have been detained under TACT and are at present in a central London police station pending further enquiries.

“The arrests relate to plans to travel to join a proscribed organisation.”