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sigmund
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TheOak01 said:
I'm hearing from friends that there have ben six or seven successive explosions on both busses and trains (London underground).
I can't get in touch with many of my friends / family who work in the city - phone network is constantly busy. News websites are also flooded: I did manage to get this from the bbc website:
Several people have been injured after explosions on the Underground network and a double-decker bus in London.
A police spokesman said there were "quite a large number of casualties" at Aldgate Tube Station.
And Scotland Yard confirmed one of several reports of explosions on buses in the city - in Tavistock Place - but said the cause was not yet known.
One caller to BBC Five said his friend had seen "the bus ripped open like a can of sardines and bodies everywhere".
Number 10 said it was "still unsure" whether the explosions were a terrorist attack and although casualties were reported, no further details were yet available.
Ministers are meeting to clarify the situation and the government will make a statement later, Leader of the House Geoff Hoon told the Commons.
PA also quoted union officials as saying sources had told them there had been at least one explosive device on the Underground.
British Transport Police said incidents took place at Aldgate, Edgware Road, King's Cross, Old Street and Russell Square stations.
Scotland Yard confirmed they were assisting with a "major incident" and said there were casualties.
Hospitals have said they are no longer accepting non-emergency cases, BBC Five Live reported.
The National Grid, which supplies power to the Underground, said there had been no problems with its system which could have contributed to the incidents.
'Screaming and crying'
Jacqui Head, from BBC News, who had just left King's Cross station on a Piccadilly Line train as an explosion happened, said: "Everything was normal. Suddenly there was a massive bang, the train jolted.
"There was immediately smoke everywhere and it was hot and everybody panicked. People started screaming and crying."
The train was kept in the tunnel for 20 minutes and no announcement was made to explain the delay to passengers, she added.
Liberal Democrat MP Simon Hughes, near Kings Cross, told Five Live: "My only thought in the midst of all this confusion is that after the celebration of yesterday (for the Olympic 2012 London success) for people to be evil enough - if it is the intentional causing of death and injury - and think that they can justify this in any circumstances is completely unacceptable."
London Fire Brigade said four crews were at Liverpool Street and more were on their way.
Another passenger, who had left the Tube at Fenchurch Street Station, and walked to Aldgate East, told BBC Five Live that he saw injured people.
"As I walked through the bus station I could see people lying on the ground, black, as if they'd been covered in smoke. There were about three or four people on the floor being treated."
Eyewitness Paul Woloszyn from BBC News, who was at Blackhorse Road station on the Victoria Line, said: "We were told there was a bomb at Liverpool Street station.
"I was on the Tube, and they stopped the train and told everyone to get off and evacuate the station."
He said staff had said the entire Tube network had been affected, and leaflets had been handed out with details of alternative bus routes.
Another eyewitness, Dorothy Molloy, had been on a Tube train at King's Cross and said "staff just chucked everyone out of the station".
She said staff there had not given any details, but she said two passengers she had spoken to had said they had received messages saying there had been bombs.
sigmund
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More from BBC News:
At least one person is reported to have been killed in an explosion on a bus in central London.
Witnesses said the roof of the double-decker bus was blown into the sky outside the British Medical Association, near Tavistock Place.
One told BBC News 24 the front of the building had been "splattered with blood" and said there were sheets spread on the pavement.
Police said: "There have been further reports of multiple explosions."
Witness Belinda Seabrook said: "I was on the bus in front and heard an incredible bang, I turned round and half the double decker bus was in the air.
"It was a massive explosion and there were papers and half a bus flying through the air.
"There must be a lot of people dead as all the buses were packed, they had been turning people away from the Tube stops."
Another witness said police were about to conduct controlled explosions in the area. The area has been cordoned off.
There were unconfirmed reports there were other blasts on buses in South Kensington and in Marylebone.
At least one person is reported to have been killed in an explosion on a bus in central London.
Witnesses said the roof of the double-decker bus was blown into the sky outside the British Medical Association, near Tavistock Place.
One told BBC News 24 the front of the building had been "splattered with blood" and said there were sheets spread on the pavement.
Police said: "There have been further reports of multiple explosions."
Witness Belinda Seabrook said: "I was on the bus in front and heard an incredible bang, I turned round and half the double decker bus was in the air.
"It was a massive explosion and there were papers and half a bus flying through the air.
"There must be a lot of people dead as all the buses were packed, they had been turning people away from the Tube stops."
Another witness said police were about to conduct controlled explosions in the area. The area has been cordoned off.
There were unconfirmed reports there were other blasts on buses in South Kensington and in Marylebone.
this should be fun, lots of my friends were travelling by bus and tube today 
fingers crossed and prayers, Im sure they'll all be fine as luckily it was after rush hour....but I'm really hoping they havent got more bombs, the fuckers set the buses off just after the underground got closed knowing more commuters would be on it
fingers crossed and prayers, Im sure they'll all be fine as luckily it was after rush hour....but I'm really hoping they havent got more bombs, the fuckers set the buses off just after the underground got closed knowing more commuters would be on it
tuc biscuit
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horrible stuff, but it was not a case of if, more when
at least 2 dead now I hear and over 90 dead at one tube station
at least 2 dead now I hear and over 90 dead at one tube station
tuc biscuit
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thanks gg, several dead now according to eye witnesses, army have been called in
several culprits names are bing thrown around, seems as if they wanted to cause chaos rather than deaths
coincides with the G8 thing and us getting the olympics
several culprits names are bing thrown around, seems as if they wanted to cause chaos rather than deaths
coincides with the G8 thing and us getting the olympics
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