More bombs go off in London

zwarbyt · July 21, 2005, 6:36am

cnn:

LONDON, England (CNN) – Three small devices have exploded at three separate Underground subway stations in London, two weeks after the July 7 terror attacks, police said.

Police said the small blasts happened at Warren Street, Oval and Shepherd’s Bush stations.

Transport Police told ITN there was an injury when a device exploded on an Underground train near the Warren Street station, in the center of the capital. There are no other reports of casualties.

The area around the station has been sealed off and a bomb squad is on the scene to check for any other explosive devices.

All three stations were evacuated and the three affected Tube lines – Hammersmith & City, Victoria and Northern – have been closed, according to a spokesperson for Transport for London.

Scotland Yard also responded to a report of a blast on a bus in Hackney, east London. The bus appeared to be intact and a witness said a bomb-sniffing dog was on the scene.

A bus company spokesman told ITN the driver of the 26 bus heard a “bang” from the top of his bus. The driver said windows were blown out of the bus. No injuries were reported.

Police said they were not treating the evacuations as a “major incident.”

Ambulances were called to Oval station at 12:38 p.m. (7:38 a.m. ET), and sent three vehicles. At 12:45 p.m., a call came in from Warren Street. Five vehicles were sent there.

The ambulance service had no details on the incident at Shepherd’s Bush station, five kilometers (three miles) west of the center of the capital.

Bryce Elder, a witness near that station, said there was a heavy police presence but “no real sense of panic.”

Police helicopters flew overhead and areas near Shepherd’s Bush station were evacuated. Elder said the station was not very busy.

CNN London producer Katie Turner reported a heavy police presence near the Oval station, including about 30 police vehicles. Roads about 500 meters from the station have been blocked off to vehicular traffic, she said.

A woman who was on the train at the Oval station when the incident happened said she did not hear a bang, but saw people pushing themselves into her carriage.

She said there was a general mood of panic, but the train was not packed. The train was moving when the incident happened.

Other people said they smelled sour smoke.

Prime Minister Tony Blair postponed a planned photocall with Australian Prime Minister John Howard, on an official visit to Britain and planned to address the nation later Thursday.

The White House said President George W. Bush has been informed of the incidents, which happened two weeks after the July 7 attacks on the London transit system, killing 52 people and four of the bombers.

:tdown:

TrueBlue · July 21, 2005, 6:39am

:shoot:

Locutus · July 21, 2005, 6:40am

:dieterroristsdie:

RobHimself · July 21, 2005, 6:47am

Just turn the middle east into a parking lot already.

Lucky_Cheater · July 21, 2005, 6:55am

This war is such a bitch…How do you declare war when you only really want to fight the minority of a country.

hmmmm…

-Cheater-

zwarbyt · July 21, 2005, 6:59am

idiotic statement

vq30de · July 21, 2005, 7:15am

yep.

RobHimself · July 21, 2005, 7:21am

wanst a very pc comment i admit but i get frustrated when i hear about that stuff. i retract my previos statement, even though its out there.

OfficerK · July 21, 2005, 7:57am

yeah this is definitly not the work of any sort of organized terrorists, more of a copycat attack, that didn’t go as planned

RobHimself · July 21, 2005, 8:50am

I jsut heard on the news some people on one of the trains noticed the guy leave a bag, they started to chase him but he appearently got away. Hopefully they get this guy.

Chelleybelly8 · July 22, 2005, 4:59am

I used to work near the Hackney Road tube station… after the last attacks I emailed my old bosses to make sure they were safe, and they were OK. This really pisses me off and scares me…

HotRodKid · July 22, 2005, 5:32am

one of the suspects was shot and killed during some step of this new attack

the previous terroroists spent 1000 dollars on calogne to mast the odor of the chemical explosives they were carrying

this second attack failed because despite attempting to use the same type of homemade explosives as the first attack, they were mixed wrong and didnt detonate, only the blasting caps went off

during one of these attacks, someone could smell the chemical bomb and allerted others, i beleive this iwas at the same location where the suspect was shot and killed

RobHimself · July 22, 2005, 6:34am

This could have been so much worse, its fortunate that the bombers screwed up so badly. Im pretty sure no one was killed by the actual attack, thankfully.

HotRodKid · July 22, 2005, 7:02am

they beleive that the man that ran away after he bomb failed yesterday, is they guy that tried to run from the cops today, who then wound up shot dead today

fbrendan · July 22, 2005, 7:51am

I thought London Police didn’t carry firearms? : offtopic :

Or are they strapping now?

TrueBlue · July 22, 2005, 7:59am

they are now. Can’t blame them one bit.

RobHimself · July 22, 2005, 8:31am

Thats probably the equal to our SWAT team. on tv i still didnt see any regular po po packin’ the heat.

RedGoober4Life · July 22, 2005, 8:45am

My friend lives there :nervous:

slow84ta · July 22, 2005, 9:45am

I thinks its about damn time we bomb a few countries and get this fucking retardedness out of the world

fbrendan · July 22, 2005, 1:42pm

I don’t, and I’ll tell you why.

Years before you were born and years before we even gave a rats ass about what was happening in Iraq (for example…I’m assuming thats what your talking about), Iraqi’s were the ones fighting Sadam. Speaking in particular about a family I consider my own. One by one families like this were killed off by Loyalists. Some of those people gave their whole life and their own life fighting a good cause.

I don’t feel like typing anymore and there is a customer walking in… But to bomb a whole country over a select group is the most retarded idea ever and I willl argue it untill I turn blue in the face.

It would be like if Catholics (no offense i am one) started killing Candians. Should Canada nuke the whole U.S. if American Catholics started bombing Canada. No.

Thank you, come again.