Suspect in UK immigration centre attack was 66 year-old male, now deceased - police

LONDON (Reuters) - British police said the suspect who threw petrol bombs at an immigration centre in Dover on Sunday was a 66 year-old man from High Wycombe, southern England, who was later found dead at a nearby service station.

On Sunday, a man threw petrol bombs attached to fireworks at a centre for processing migrants in the southern English port of Dover and then killed himself, a Reuters photographer said.

Police were working to search the suspect's property on Monday, they said in a statement.

(Reporting by Andrew MacAskill, writing by William James)