Posted on 07/07/2005 1:45:13 AM PDT by RWR8189
There has been an explosion at Aldgate East underground station in London, causing the closure of the entire Tube network.
There are also reports that a second incident took place at Edgware Road station in north west London.
The Aldgate East blast was caused by "some kind of power surge", according to Tube infrastructure company Metronet, which is responsible for maintaining the Metropolitan line.
A spokesman said: "We don't know the extent of the problem yet."
A London Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: "We have just sent some resources out to the scene."
British Transport Police confirmed that there are "walking wounded" and said paramedics have responded to one report of a person classed as "life at risk".
"It's chaos, with people trying to work out what has happened," said a spokesman.
"All we know at the moment is that staff reported a loud bang at 8.49am. No one is sure what caused an explosion, but it is thought it could have been a collision, a power cut, or a power cable problem."
One witness said the packed underground train he was on was 200 metres from Kings Cross when there was a huge flash.
The train stopped and people were using umberellas to smash windows of the trains. Passengers were led out of the train by underground staff.
He added people were milling around Kings Cross covered in soot.
That report makes absolutely no sense. If I understand correctly it originally came from AP.
I am cruising the AQ websites.."brothers" means terrorists.
Duuh, eurocrats drive the policies of the G8 at this meeting, given that it was hosted in Britain.
I am praying they know what they are doing and how to get all the information they can out of them before the blow them up.
Yes, doesn't London have a gazillion cameras?
I think so. Let me ask the locals.
Thanks. I'm just hoping there aren't too many casualties. There were some grisly eye witness reports. I'm amazed at the resolve of people who will give interviews to television when their faces are covered in soot and bleeding.
jeeze it looks like they are warning of high casualties...this is terrible...
Good find, Cindy.
I just checked.. CNN archived special report show the first went off at 'the height of Thrusday morning rush hour-- 7:39am
Continued thoughts and prayers for all free people of the world who survive these terrorist attacks.
No "brothers" of ours then.
Al Qaeda's Live Hate concert
Gad! ED Hill on Fox now tell us not to panic...
What an airhead!
Agreed.
Each bombmaker has a "signature" if you will in how they build their bombs.
Most of them are on file at Interpol.
It won't take long to find the bastards that did this.
Yes, there are loads of CCTV cameras.
Regards, Ivan
Video feed showing several bomb dogs doin' their thing...
also CNN - ".. loss of limbs .. fatality #s expected to rise dramatically .. "
Yeah, the areas hit have CCTV cameras all over the place.
Somebody did post that tidbit here, but it wasn;t from Drudge. It was fromSky News I think.
I don't really understand that info... why tell Israel?
Great. I hope they can yeild some info.
Well, take a look at who is doing it; it's the same ones over and over, always carping -- on ANY subject or thread.
They aren't called The Unappeasables/Malcontents for nothing.
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