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.
I didn't know that. I had pegged Canada below the ME for its oil deliveries to the US.
I just heard about it on the tube, and, unfortunately, it made me laugh, not a funny laugh as I guess you would know. It was reported as "the world's reaction" Hah!
Why can't we spank 'em?
I was surprised when I found it out as well.
Ditto. I have had some sleep now too and went straight to the tv. Death toll up from two and now at thirty-seven.
Well my first thought is they would call the ACLU nad have us arrested. My second thought is that as warped as they are they might enjoy it.
Especially when you think Canadian oilfields have been delivering for such a long time. The Saudi fields were not exploited until the 1940s, IIRC. Wow.
Shep just did it again, he said is the war in iraq creating this terrorism. What rat.
I did.
And Cashill's not the only doubter--the American Spectator ran a couple of articles, too.
FNC updated the number of injured from 350 to 700.
she also goes by her jihad name Abu Boobie
OMG! I am madly trying to get current. Thank you for the info.
well then, that will be all for Schlep , I had Fox on in the lvng rm but no more , I'll turn it on for Cavuto and Brit , no more Schlep , "hey Ailes,hear that?? no more Schlep!!"
Allen on Span 2 Brac Hearing.
I wrote to Shep yesterday -- guess he needs another letter today, huh?
For over a thousand years it was the Eastern European Christians that bore the savagery of Turkish Muslim madness. While the Western European nations were making deals with the Sultanate, the Christians in S. E. Europe were enslaved and terrorized under the yoke of Islam.
Now the west in its submissive secularism is experiencing just a tiny bit of what their eastern European compatriots have suffered and still do in the Balkans for example.
yup , I'm bouncing back and forth between that and the Nationals-Mets game , with Rush on the radio
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