"Special forces and police are on standby to battle up to ten simultaneous terror attacks on London"

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Special forces and police have been put on standby to battle up to 10 simultaneous terror attacks on London.

To prevent a Paris-style attack in the capital, it is understood the National Crime Agency has been ordered to crackdown on firearms.

Agency bosses fear terrorists returning from Syria could carry out multiple attacks in London, spreading resources across the city.

But a minister told the Sunday Telegraph that UK special forces was well prepared for such an eventuality.

He told the paper: 'We used to plan for three simultaneous attacks but Paris has shown that you need to be ready for more than that. We are ready if someone tries with seven, eight, nine, ten.'

The Army is also on standby outside London to aid the SAS and Metropolitan Police should there be multiple attacks.

According to the Telegraph, the Army's counter terrorism bomb disposal unit is also putting together a team to combat chemical and biological weapons at a base in Didcot, Oxford.

The SAS is also conducting training exercises focused around dealing with improvised explosive devices (IEDs) that have been turned into weapons of mass destruction.