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

I've just heard from a reliable source there are about twenty bodies on a platform in Kings Cross and they are expecting to find another 30 there.

Fucking grim.
 
Birnmingham security alert

Birmingham City Centre - Police declare security alert. Bars being searched. Cars stopped on ring road. News just in - ITN
 
DoUsAFavour said:
I've just heard from a reliable source there are about twenty bodies on a platform in Kings Cross and they are expecting to find another 30 there.

Fucking grim.
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Not wishing to say your source isn't reliable, but dead bodies generally need to be kept cool. Maybe at one point in time there were 20 bodies but I doubt they are still there.
 
BBC News 24 is reporting that there will be a press conference about the Birmingham security alert at 10PM.

Broad street entertainment zone being evacuated is causing some major human upheaval, even if there is no actual terror incident (hopefully there wont be) this represents a major disruption to thousands of peoples saturday night.

Birmingham new street station is apparently still operating but its quit a large area of the city centre thats affected.
 
William of Walworth said:
A very similar pic was in the Substandard yesterday, labelled as having been taken within a minute or two of the bus bomb.

I didn't understand all those people still standing either ...
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I got a text Thursday morning from my girlfriend saying 'the bus behind ours just exploded'. At this point I still thought there was a powersurge causing all the distress. I eventually got through to her and she mentioned the above, found it hard to believe after seeing initial pictures of the bus, but subsequent pictures showed the full disgusting carnage.

She got on the bus because Edgeware Road tube had just closed due to a 'powersurge'. She was on the way to Aldgate East tube station, hers and mine work tube stop.

I have to admit this act of terrorism has affected me a lot more than I thought it would.
 
rocketman said:
This may 'just' be a fire, and not connected to any acts of terror.

But meanwhile, news just in:
"crews look into reports of more than 1,000 people missing".
Over 1,000 missing in tube horror
There are some graphic elements to this seemingly well-researched report, so be warned.
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I doubt it's a misprint rather a mis comprehension ...

There is likely to be a significant number of people who may well have lost track of people during this period of which any number of those could contact the emergancy line. It could well be that they are currently following up aroudn 1000 enquiries regarding missing people whether all of those turn out to be victims of the bombings is another matter. Hence the full quote being

tcpalm.com said:
As sobbing relatives held pictures and searched for missing loves at subway stations around the city, crews looked into reports of more than 1,000 people missing.
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perhaps it's not helpful at this time to a) speculate about the numebr of dead and b) to sensationalise reports which are tabloid enough by selective quoting of them...

Spreading fear or misinformation at times like this is not very sensible equally sensationalising reports is as dispicable as you can be, which i hope wasn't your intention...
 
editor said:
"...and were so powerful that none of the 49 dead have been identified and bodies remain trapped deep inside a rat-infested subway tunnel"
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That supposition - from the police statement referring to "vermin" - is all over news.google.com - but the Picadilly Line is mouse-infested, anyway.

I've never seen a rat. Unlike Bank station, where there are mice upstairs and rats downstairs. Presumably there's a little border post somewhere that I've missed. (I know the idea you don't get mice and rats together is not strictly true... but it's not far off.)
 
(Thread moved to London forum as I felt it was not appropriate amongst the fast-moving chit chat of the general forum. I hope this is OK)
 
editor said:
Good grief. Just look at the dreadful tabloid shite in that article:

"...and were so powerful that none of the 49 dead have been identified and bodies remain trapped deep inside a rat-infested subway tunnel"

I wouldn't trust a word of it myself.
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erm, there definitely are zillions of rats living in the London Underground.
 
from carriage one, Kings X, to those looking for missing

After detailed anti-terrorism staff interview I found out some stuff I needed to share.

The King X bomb was placed at the END of the first carriage, not the first set of doors on the front carriage as reprted on the news.

The tube tunnel was very narrow here, and the train was very crowded, which was why most of the people were killed and hurt at the back of carriage 1/ beginning of carriage 2.

I heard this from the counter-terrorism police who took my statement today: the BBC and ITN were wrong in their first reports.


From being there about 7-10 yards from blast, I can say that there were about 30- 50 behind me therefore who may not have got out alive. About 10 behind me walked to safety.

I understand that there are about two thirds of this number missing. I can also say that when I was at University College Hospital there was one woman at least that I saw with total amnesia who had no idea of her name, address, anything, so please therefore do not give up hope, if you are searching, yet. There is a small hope.

I can also say that the blast was very intense, so if you were rightnext to it, it would have been almost instantaneous,


because the tube tunnel was so small, and the train so rammed, those next to it would have taken the full force of the blast.


I do not know what else to say, I am sorry.
 
There was someone shot dead at Canary Warf; it was kept off the news for reasons of not wanting to start a panic. Also there were alot more bombs that never went off (meaning there could of been around 10/12 explosions) and police think this might happen again because the job wasn't done properly this time.
 
Kid_Eternity said:
There was someone shot dead at Canary Warf; it was kept off the news for reasons of not wanting to start a panic. Also there were alot more bombs that never went off (meaning there could of been around 10/12 explosions) and police think this might happen again because the job wasn't done properly this time.
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Is that being reported....or just something you know? I've been so curious about the Canary Wharf thing..... :confused:
 
Yeah, I have to say I'd like to know more about the Canary Wharf shooting and all this stuff about there being more bombs. Where is this coming from - reputable sources, hearsay or what?
 
Kid_Eternity said:
There was someone shot dead at Canary Warf; it was kept off the news for reasons of not wanting to start a panic. Also there were alot more bombs that never went off (meaning there could of been around 10/12 explosions) and police think this might happen again because the job wasn't done properly this time.
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Eveidence? Sources?
 
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