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quiksilver · Joined: 11 Sep 2004

Just got home from work and turned on CNN. Does anyone think this was a terrorist attack? They're still saying it was an "internal" problem (mechanical or electrical) but it was three different locations. It's now 6:40 pm so hopefully they tell us more soon.

Does anyone think it has anything to do with London being awarded the 2012 Olympics yesterday? They haven't made the link yet, well they haven't said it yet. Or maybe the G8 Summit. They've already brought up that link.

It'll be interesting to see what comes of it.

neandergirl · Joined: 23 Jun 2005

First reports said a power surge but the BBC is reporting at least 6 explosions at different stations (Aldgate, Kings Cross, Edgeware Street, Russell Square, Old Street) as well as at least one explosion on a double decker bus. So the 'internal problem' is becoming less likely an explanation.

CNN still reporting that the bus explosion is unconfirmed.

JacktheCat · Joined: 08 May 2004

It's been confirmed. Several tube blasts and at least 3 bus bombs. Looks like a major terrorist attack on London.

I'm going to anoint this the offical thread. Please post on here and don't start another thread.

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

CNN is reporting a series of 6 coordinated explosions with 2 fatalities at this point.

neandergirl · Joined: 23 Jun 2005

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/4659093.stm

coldcrush · Joined: 02 Apr 2004 Location: melbourne.... Posts: 1

Gopher · Joined: 04 Jun 2005

Most unfortunate. Things will only get worse now.

rapier · Joined: 16 Feb 2003

Apparently 2 casualties. amazingly low figure for a series of 7 blasts- good news, could've been a lot worse.

coldcrush · Joined: 02 Apr 2004 Location: melbourne.... Posts: 1

neandergirl · Joined: 23 Jun 2005

It seems so. There are reports of much higher fatality numbers (nothing higher than 2 'confirmed') and rescue operations are still underway. Apparently there are still people trapped underground. It's early to be putting numbers on it.

neandergirl · Joined: 23 Jun 2005

There's been a statement claiming responsibility from a group 'linked to Al Qaeda" as well.

funplanet · Joined: 20 Jun 2003 Location: The new Bucheon!

just called a friend in London and he said it's been chaos...all sorts of theories from the G8 protestors to Osama....

rapier · Joined: 16 Feb 2003

http://uk.messages.sports.yahoo.com/Olympics/forumview?bn=UK-SP-OL-London+attacks

-Check out this live message board..hot with survivor accounts etc coming in right now..

Shock, confusion in aftermath of London bus blast

LONDON (Reuters) - "I was on the bus. I looked round and the seats behind me were gone."

More than that, the middle-aged victim of the bus blast in central London could or would not say.

Shocked, disorientated, and with oil and pieces of debris in her hair and clothes, she asked for directions to Holborn but refused all offers of help.

The scene was repeated again and again across central London as at least six explosions rocked the capital on Thursday, killing several people and wounding scores, in what police fear were attacks to coincide with leaders of the Group of Eight nations meeting in Scotland.

The scene around Russell Square in the city's heart was one of bewilderment, with little reliable information available on what had actually happened.

Traffic wardens, police support officers and private security guards were all drafted in to man cordons.

Police spoke of "a bomb" or "bombs," or of "explosions". The slowly expanding police cordon pushed before it droves of confused office workers, evacuated from surrounding streets.

Cellphone networks quickly became jammed with callers trying to reassure loved ones, and shops filled with people begging to use the phone. Some young women in a hairdressers' shop were in tears.

WALKING WOUNDED

Most of the attacks centred on the city's underground rail system.

Loyita Worley, 49, was travelling from Moorgate to Aldgate when her train was shaken by a large explosion.

"I saw an orange flickering on the side of the tunnel," she said, adding 20 to 30 "walking wounded" had been led from the damaged carriage, which had been torn from "floor to ceiling."

"Many were shaking, there were a lot of head injuries, it was very bloody," she said.

One man's clothes had been blown off and he was totally black with soot, she said, but passengers remained calm even as objects fell down onto the roof of the carriage.

Another witness, a computer programmer at a London investment bank, was in the same train when he heard an explosion in the carriage in front of him.

"There was a loud bang and everybody collapsed to the floor because of smoke. But everybody was very calm and we waited for people to direct us," he said.

Back at Russell Square, people talked of hearing explosions, but the lightly concealed panic as the police combed the area for bombs made any degree of clarity impossible.

Traffic stopped completely, with engines off, the police lines blocking escape routes for all but cycles and motorcycles.

Sirens howled in the eerie quiet.

blunder1983 · Joined: 12 Apr 2005

My thoughts and prayers (if ur religious) go out to anyone with friends and family in London at the moment, I've got two very close friends in London at the moment and havent heard from either of them, so I can appreciate how you all feel.

neandergirl · Joined: 23 Jun 2005

Also:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4659293.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4659331.stm