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London On Alert With Threats Again Today
« on: Jul 21^st, 2005, 8:13am »

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LONDON, England (CNN) -- At least one person has been injured following a number of incidents on Underground trains and a bus in London, police say.

The incidents came two weeks to the day since bombs on three Underground trains in London and a double-decker bus killed 56 people including four bombers.

CNN's Matthew Chance said police told him a device exploded in or around Warren Street Tube station in the center of the British capital.

The area around the station has been sealed off and the Bomb Squad is on the scene to check for other explosive devices.

Transport Police told ITN there was an injury at Warren Street. There are no other reports of casualties.

Scotland Yard is also reporting an incident on a bus at Hackney Road and Columbia Road in east London. A witness said the bus is still intact and a bomb-sniffing dog was on the scene.

Police said initially they were not treating the evacuations as a "major incident."

A Scotland Yard spokesperson told CNN that Warren Street, Shepherds Bush and Oval stations had all been evacuated.

London Underground confirmed that services on three lines -- Victoria, Northern and Hammermith and City -- were suspended following the incidents, according to PA.

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 Shepherd's Bush station incident.

Bryce Elder, a witness near the Shepherd's Bush 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.

The White House said President George W. Bush has been informed of the incidents.

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Re: London On Alert With Threats Again Today
« Reply #1 on: Jul 21^st, 2005, 9:39am »

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Tube cleared after small blasts

A number of Tube stations have been evacuated and lines closed after three blasts in what Met Police chief Sir Ian Blair says is a "serious incident".
Sir Ian appealed to Londoners to stay where they were and said the transport system was effectively being shut down.

The minor explosions used detonators only, a BBC reporter said.

In addition, a Number 26 bus in Hackney Road in Bethnal Green had its windows blown out by a blast. There were no injuries.

Large areas around Warren Street, Oval and the Shepherd's Bush Hammersmith and City line Tube stations have been cordoned off.

One person was injured at Warren Street. There were reports the injured person may have been holding a rucksack containing the detonator.

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Police said armed officers had been deployed to University College Hospital after an incident.

The whole of the Northern Line has been suspended, along with the Victoria Line and the Hammersmith and City line.

Police have set up cordons round the stations

A number of other stations were closed including Westminster tube station, Waterloo tube station and King's Cross Thameslink. There were also reports that St Paul's tube and Oxford Circus tube station were closed.

Tony Blair cancelled events in the afternoon and will be attending a meeting of the Cobra committee along with Foreign Secretary Jack Straw.

The BBC's Andrew Winstanley said devices had been found but appeared to have been dummies, containing no explosives.

London Underground went to an amber alert with trains taken to the next station and evacuated.

An eyewitness at Oval station said there had been a small bang, and a man had then run off when the Tube reached the station.

A spokesman for Stagecoach said the driver of the number 26 bus travelling through Shoreditch had heard a bang on upper deck, gone upstairs and seen the windows were blown out.

The bus driver was very shaken but said to be fine.

At Shepherd's Bush Hammersmith and City line station, police told reporters that a man had threatened to blow himself up and then ran off.

Sosiane Mohellavi, 35, was travelling from Oxford Circus to Walthamstow when she was evacuated from a train at Warren Street.

"I was in the carriage and we smelt smoke - it was like something was burning.

"Everyone was panicked and people were screaming. We had to pull the alarm. I am still shaking."

The BBC's Rory Barnett said there had been no smoke on the platform at Warren St.

Liz Edwards, who works near Warren Street Underground station, said the area was full of activity.

"There are police, fire engines and ambulances all around there. A guy from our office had just come back from the station and said the police were aggressively keeping people away from the station and that you could not get anywhere near it."

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Re: London On Alert With Threats Again Today
« Reply #2 on: Jul 21^st, 2005, 11:17am »

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This is saddening that we live in a world where "free" countries can terroized by religious extremist. These people are barbarians!!!

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Re: London On Alert With Threats Again Today
« Reply #3 on: Jul 21^st, 2005, 11:21am »

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It has been only a mere 2 weeks, and now this again??!! Roll Eyes

At least there were no deaths this time.

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Re: London On Alert With Threats Again Today
« Reply #4 on: Jul 21^st, 2005, 6:30pm »

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Reports I'm listening to now say they are trying to determine if it's the same group, or if it's a "copy cat" situation...

Loved the guy who said, "London got through this for years with bombings from Northern Ireland, and we'll get through this." Gotta love that "stiff upper lip"..

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Re: London On Alert With Threats Again Today
« Reply #5 on: Jul 22^nd, 2005, 4:27am »

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These attacks are Barbaric because they planted a bomb in some tube stations in London.

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