Terrorist Attack on London

A number of people have been killed in a series of explosions on London's transport system during the morning's rush hour, causing chaos in the British capital, police and transport officials said.

Several blasts hit the Underground network and police said there had been at least three explosions on buses in the city.

A source at the Metronet consortium that runs part of the capital's Underground network said "there were three explosions and there have been some fatalities".

Home Secretary Charles Clarke said the blasts had caused "terrible injuries" although he did not give specific figures.

"I want to express sympathy on behalf of the whole government to the families and friends of those who have been injured," Mr Clarke told reporters outside Prime Minister Tony Blair's Downing Street residence.

"The health services are in support to deal with the terrible injuries that there have been."

The causes of the incidents, a day after London was awarded the 2012 Olympics and as leaders of the Group of Eight rich nations met in Scotland, were unknown but police said many of the city's Underground stations were affected.

"It is too too early to state what has happened," a London police spokesman said.

"I cannot comment on reports of bombs, but we have had multi-reports of explosions around London."

Underground

People were seen streaming out of one Underground station covered in blood and soot.

Passengers were evacuated from stations across the capital, many in shock and with their clothes ripped to shreds, witnesses said.

The entire system was shut down and major thoroughfares were blocked off by police and ambulance services.

Bus blast

One bus was blown up in Tavistock Square in central London, a policeman told Reuters.

"There have been some casualties and this has been declared as a major incident," a spokeswoman for London's Metropolitan Police said.

Virginia Crompton was close to the explosion on a double decker bus in Tavistock Square.

"I decided given the scale of the chaos, it was best to walk to work and head towards town, I've just gone through Russel Square and turned onto Gordon Square where I heard a huge explosion very close by," she said.

"I turned into Gordon Square Gardens which is where I am now and two men run past me who had witnessed what they said was a bus being blown up, they described the roof coming out and I said, 'do you think anyone was hurt' and they said 'yes, definitely'."

Aldgate East station

Emergency services rushed to the Aldgate East underground station where police reported the first incident at 8:59am local time.

"There were people streaming out of Aldgate station covered in blood," 27-year-old Kate Heywood said, on her way to work.

"There are shards of glass there, it is chaos," she said.

A Reuters correspondent at Oxford Circus station, at the heart of the underground system, heard an announcement over the public-address system saying: "A power outage has occurred London-wide. All train services are suspended."

A station official said: "All the power has gone down. I don't know when it'll come back."

Steve Spence was travelling on one of the trains.

"I was on an outer circle train - going from Paddington from Edgware Road ... there was a big flash, a loud bang and lots of smoke, and there was a train on the other track - it had stopped as well, lots of screaming," he said.

"When we evacuated the train the front of my train was smashed up and there was lots of debris from the other train on the track."

Police cordon

Police sealed off large areas around other underground and mainline rail stations.

Firemen donned chemical protection suits before rushing into stations.

Half a dozen people dishevelled and with soot-blackened faces sat on the floor at Russell Square Underground station or stood in shock as police cordoned off the area and ambulances crews raced in, one witness said.

The Great Eastern Hotel, which was hosting a conference on the Israeli economy, was evacuated. Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was due to attend the conference but had not arrived.

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Or check your TV screens, I'm in Australia and they have coverage on every free to air channel.

Terrible... And only days after the announcement regarding the 2012 Olympic Games.

Wow... I'm about to turn on my TV now, see how big this is....

This is terrible Some of our tv-channels continue to broadcast their TellSell and that kind of crap programmes

isnt it day after Andrew? Man this is terrible... i dont understand why... very sad.
When will the violence stop?

Not anytime soon

isnt it day after Andrew?

Well sure, if you want to be exact. My point is, this is some truly terrible news after good news about an event that more or less brings the world together.

maybe the french retaliated or something???

It's probably a terrorist attack by Al Qaida or some organisation like that. That's what they assume on tv here...

But everyone assumes its al qaida.. there are so many more terrorist groups in the world though. Anyone could have done it...

Yeah true, but for now the main suspect is still Al Qaida, and if you consider the last few years, it's pretty logical

Yeah it is true. I cant belive it....

G8 and olympics were both bout humanity and peace... damn this is downright barbaric and cowardly

It's horrible. Just when there are some things that give people hope, that very same hope is being shattered by these terrible attacks.

Im wathcing the CNN news... man its chaos over there. My friend's family is there to watch her bro graduate.. i hope they aint hurt...

Especially since it was rush hour...

6 blasts... sources say 20 dead...

EDITL A man described the situation he was in as, 'like sardines waiting to die' when he was stuck in the train...

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Fuck those terrorists...
Wonder what'll the Olympic Comittee do...

no, its wonder what UK and USA will do.

Blair is returning from the G8. He was on tv just minutes ago. Logically, he seemed very sad and he basically declared that the UK would not accept this, don't remember his exact words though

Blair to return home

Amid all of this, i send my condolences to the British nation and victims of this terrible tragedy. May the people who did this be brought to justice...

An Italian press-agency tells that an unknown organisation has declared that Al-Qaida was indeed the organisation that was behind this tragedy

And I agree with everything Sit said in his last post

I'm the 3rd string pg on my basketball team!

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Matthew.

Disappointment and sadness in their eyes...

I don't think they should've won the Olympics but that's another matter. Bad stuff, at least there hasn't been too many fatalities thankfully.

there'll be more

Sit you're a fuckwit. Why post pictures of victims? You're a spastic. Imagine if that was you, and some nerdy cunt posted pictures of your mother injured in an internet forum.

Show some respect.

Well, they pics has already been post at CNN and FoxNews so it dosen't really matter.