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July 2005 London bomb blasts: UPDATES AND NEWS ONLY - NO DISCUSSION

Stobart Stopper said:
This is our 9/11.
My husband is here as he's off with a bad back. As soon as the news came through he said "bombs", 20 years of policing he's done, don't believe this shit about power surges. If you are in central London now get the fuck out, walk.
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Fuck off. This is not funny.
 
BBC London has no confirmation of bus incident, although Russell Square has been closed off.

Just tried making a mobile phone call or two. All lines busy..
 
Ms Ordinary said:
It used to have its own power station (Lots Road) but apparently its been linked to the National Grid since 1994 info link

Presumably the power supply is still a separate system though?
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I think Lots Road was closed and the land sold for yuppie houses.
 
sy news:

union officials have given unconfirmed reports of 'an explosive device found' (I think in teh tube - missed the last bit as my phone keeps ringing)
 
From GU site - which seems to be working for me.
10:15 update

Many hurt in tube chaos

Press Association
Thursday July 7, 2005

The whole of the London Underground system shut down today as an apparent power surge caused at least two explosions, wounded commuters, and plunged London's transport network into chaos.
British Transport police said several power surges had caused explosions across the network at Aldgate, Old Street, Kings Cross, Russell Square and Edgware Road. Emergency services crews attended wounded passengers outside Aldgate station, and there were reports of passengers covered in soot emerging from King's Cross. Travellers emerged from tunnels covered in blood.

Eyewitnesses reported "multiple casualties" at Liverpool Street.
One witness who had been in a train at the time of the explosions reported seeing "bodies everywhere" in the carriages and limbs lying in on the floor. Emergency services reported several injuries. Scotland Yard declared the emergency a "major incident".

The entire shutdown of the London Underground system is thought to be unprecedented. LU confirmed the incidents had been caused by "something to do with the power supply".

A British Transport police spokesman said that two trains remain stuck in tunnels at Edgware Road, but it is not known if they have collided or if passengers remain onboard.

"It's difficult to know exactly what is going on at the moment," he said. "The initial report came from Liverpool Street, but there are incidents occurring across the network."

He said that officers have been sent into the network to assist with rescue operations.

"Officers are working at tunnel and platform level to help get people out and to help find out what has happened," he said.

A Sky News producer who was evacuated from Kings Cross and was walking towards Russell Square reported seeing an explosion on a bus. He said the explosion on the bus was caused by a bomb, and said people with "blood injuries" emerged from the bus. Scotland Yard could not immediately confirm the report.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/transport/Story/0,2763,1523084,00.html
 
The bang I heard about half an hour ago must have been that bus blowing up. It's just round the corner from here :(
 
I just saw a fuck-off black helicopter fly over Bristol about five minutes ago. -It definitely wasn't the usual police one. Wonder if it's related? :confused: :(
 
bloody hell - having travelled from highbury to brixton on the victoria line this morning to work quite glad I'm here and not anywhere there :eek:

what the fucks going on?!?!
 
jugularvein said:
what the fuck are you taliking about?
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Lots Road - used to be the underground's own power station. afaik it was sold off a few years back. No need to swear, young man.
 
Update: eye witness has shown BBC reporter some mobile footage of the back of a bus exploding near Euston Station with people "lying motionless on floor".

He thought it was a bomb.

Another eye witness at Kings Cross saw people leaving the station "covered in blood".
 
Me too - from Stockwell to Oxford circus...there was nothing up to suggest a massive cross-network surge, other than no escalators. Very weird.
 
I'm so bloody lucky.

I'm on late shift this week so left half an hour later than usual so by the time I got to the station, all the lines had been suspended.

I would have been on the met line and got off at Aldgate around the time it happened. :eek: I'm getting goosebumps watching the news and seeing all the injured.
 
Surely Gleneagles would be a better target? Though I suppose 3/4 police force are in Gleneagles at the moment.

Echo's of Madrid at the moment
 
I don't know - maybe a bomb/explosion could have resulted in a power surge...fucking odd for the bus to go at the same time if unconnected. Power surge might well be something said to avoid additional panic... :(
 
This is awful

We can get so fucking cocky with all these amber alert things and dodgy looking man next to suitcase that Fox etc put through.

This should set us back a bit.

So much dangerous speculation at the moment. Wish something was concrete
 
Cloo said:
I may yet be wrong on this but I’m just firmly of the belief that the moment you start thinking anything bad must be ‘the terrorists’ then you’re letting terrorists win. Note the word ‘terror’ in their name. I don’t doubt the threat but frankly they can fuck off if they think I’m going to live in fear of them.
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Worth repeating imo.
 
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