thursday 21/07/05 -In London, three metrostations were evacuated. The Firedepartment and other help are at the scene. The police is refering to "multiple incidents". It is unclear what is happening.
The metrostations of Warren Steet Shepherds Bush and Oval are evacuated. Warren Street got evacuated after the news that smoke came out of the tubes.
A witness told a fellow traveler that a small explosion had blew up a backpack.
Anonymous sources at the subways are talking about a nailbomb and a shooting. Also there is a claim that detonators went off and not real bombs.
The police furthermore refered to an incident at a buss in Hackney, East London.
The police chief has "upgraded" the incident to "very serious", saying there were four explosions or attempts to explode, the bombs are smaller than those of two weeks ago.
Scotland Yard have asked people to stay inside. The number of victims have been labeled as "limited".
According to Associated Press, men in chemical protectionsuits went to the station of Warren Street.
Talk has it that armed policemen have entered the University College Hospital, later on they enclosed it.
Mayor Ken Livingstone already cancelled a visit he would do today.
Last edited by yerssot on Jul 21st, 2005 at 01:48 PM
A witness saw someone throw a backpack in and ran, the person could get out since people's attempts to catch him failed.
A trainguard said, according to the victim:
"Everybody off the train! We're evacuating the station." With people running into a carriage screaming: "Smoke! Smoke!"
The stations that got hit are:
Shepherds Bush
Warren Street
Oval
The bus was on:
Hackney Road
The situation has not been lifted up to a "major incident" yet.
Police Chief of London:
- 4 explosions, bus has no injured
- metro had only detonators and a nailbomb possibly but the bombs failed, they think
- police went into a hospital, at this very moment they have arrested someone and are searching him
- Oval has no chemical traces of a bomb
- they think the main cause this time was to cause panic
- three light injured police officers have been reported
Last edited by yerssot on Jul 21st, 2005 at 02:07 PM
I was just watching the coverage on the BBC, armed police just arrested a guy outside of Whitehall....I thought they might leave England alone for awhile
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I was in Knightsbridge today I went home past the Oval station back into South London. It takes me 30 minutes normally to get home today it took two hours. London is under siege, but we will keep not bow to terrorism.
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The police are still colating info right now....
No one has claimed responsibilty yet..
and still the figures remain unchanged pertaining to arrests/injuries....
the reports are that they bombs detonators went off but not the bombs themselves...
this could be due to the fact that if they were made from the same batch of explosives that were used in the previous attacks then the explosives may have destabilised to much to be "useful"
this could potentially be a huge blessing as the intact explosives will yield huge amount of forensic evidence with which to help track down those reponsible...