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London Terrorist Attacks July 2005

 
  

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Sax
10:36 / 07.07.05
Edgware Road and Liverpool Street?

Any news?

London Lither's okay?
 
 
Ganesh
10:40 / 07.07.05
Oooh! Where did you hear this?
 
 
Sax
10:41 / 07.07.05
I have my sources.
 
 
Sax
10:42 / 07.07.05
Apparently caused by a "power surge" on the Metropolitan line. Several "walking wounded".
 
 
_Boboss
10:43 / 07.07.05
reuters ain't making too much of it: an unidentified bang that 'might have been electrical'. those tube-tramps down the tunnel hitting the bolly ask me.
 
 
Ganesh
10:43 / 07.07.05
It's not on the radio at all...
 
 
Ganesh
10:44 / 07.07.05
Hmm, I got all TerrorAlertTastic!! there.
 
 
waxy dan
10:44 / 07.07.05
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4659093.stm

Poor bastards must have been terrified.
 
 
Sax
10:44 / 07.07.05
"British Transport Police said the incident, reported at at 8.49am on the Metropolitan Line between Liverpool Street and Aldgate, was thought to have been caused by a collision between two trains, a power cut or a power cable exploding."
 
 
invisible_al
10:52 / 07.07.05
Looks like the BBC news site is getting hammered Text Only is your friend here.

Pretty typical that this happens the day after we get the Olympics, I can see the headlines already .
 
 
Ganesh
10:54 / 07.07.05
I think it was Horigal on the tracks.
 
 
Jub
11:03 / 07.07.05
Apparently a bus exploded in Haverstock Square.
 
 
waxy dan
11:07 / 07.07.05
Strangely Transport for London seem the last to know: "No current short term problems"... though their server seems to have packed up now.

Reuters is reporting a bit of a dent in Sterling as a result. Also, that it was probably a power problem.

Been a few months since a possible 'terror' incident; I was starting to miss 'em.
 
 
Benny the Ball
11:09 / 07.07.05

From the Sky news website;

According to reports a bus has exploded in central London just minutes after a number of blasts on London's Underground.

"I saw lots of people running up a road and then saw the top of a bus destroyed," one eyewitness told Sky News.


Sky News producer Bob Mills said he heard the loud explosion near Euston Station.

The entire Tube network has been shut down following the blasts at Aldgate, Edgware Road, King's Cross, Old Street and Russell Square.
 
 
_Boboss
11:12 / 07.07.05
oh for shit sake, i knew it:

apologies for being glib earlier - if anyone's been pissed-on or injured by this then sorry for making your distress seem like a happy if boisterous derelicts' subterranean tea party.

and on one of the few days i got to go to london. please fix thyself tubes.
 
 
Ganesh
11:14 / 07.07.05
Just heard about the bus - although I'm hearing Russell Square.
 
 
Smoothly
11:16 / 07.07.05
Anyone near Tavistock Square? Emily Rubens on ITV News is saying that she saw a bus with it's front 'blown off', debris everywhere, casualties on the road. The Met aren't confirming this.
 
 
Jub
11:16 / 07.07.05
30 dead on the bus.
 
 
Smoothly
11:17 / 07.07.05
Where are you getting that from Jub?
 
 
Hattie's Kitchen
11:18 / 07.07.05
Holy fuck, I was at Liverpool St Station getting the tube to work at 8.30 this morning...got into work and was told that there'd been an explosion at Liverpool St Station...and the ENTIRE Tube network is now down because of "power surges"?

Shit.
 
 
Jub
11:19 / 07.07.05
someone at work's mate is near the site. Armed police are streaming down the roads pushing people into side streets and telling them to stay there.
 
 
Jub
11:23 / 07.07.05
they've found unexploded bombs on another train and a litter bin.
 
 
Jub
11:25 / 07.07.05
this is Aldgate:

 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
11:25 / 07.07.05
BBC News is saying people at the tube stations were told there were bombs but this might have been just staff trying to get them to leave the stations. Is this a replay of that incident with the power going out on the trains a year or so back out of Victoria?
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
11:26 / 07.07.05
I'm nearish Tavistock Square. Didn't hear anything but there are sirens and choppers all over the place.

Illmatic, please check in, your phone's off.
 
 
Ganesh
11:26 / 07.07.05
Explosions on three buses, on BBC News 24...
 
 
Sax
11:26 / 07.07.05
Explosions on three buses now, according to unconfirmed reports.
 
 
Quantum
11:27 / 07.07.05
Fuck. Thinking good luck thoughts at London lithers, *please be OK*

A spokesman said officers were called out to Aldgate station at 8.50am to assist City of London and British Transport Police.

"All of the emergency services are on scene. There have been some casualties. This has been declared as a major incident," said the spokesman. "It's too early to state what has happened at this stage," he said.

BBC news.co.uk
 
 
Ganesh
11:27 / 07.07.05
Heard from Xoc and CherieBombe, both fine. Could we start doing a check-in?
 
 
Quantum
11:28 / 07.07.05
'Surges took place at Aldgate, Edgware Road, King's Cross, Old Street and Russell Square stations.

A spokesman said there were "walking wounded" at Liverpool Street station but one person's life was reported to be "at risk".

Scotland Yard confirmed they were assisting with a "major incident" and said there were casualties.'

from BBC again
 
 
Ariadne
11:30 / 07.07.05
Bloody hell, I just came back on the sleeper last night. And just got a frantic call from my mum, unsure if I was still there. I agree with Ganesh, please report in, Londoners!
 
 
waxy dan
11:31 / 07.07.05
Jub, can you source any of that?

Sky is being very sensationalist. BBC's being a tad more cautious:

Scotland Yard confirmed they were assisting with a "major incident" and said there were casualties.

A spokesman said officers were called out to Aldgate station at 8.50am to assist City of London and British Transport Police.

"All of the emergency services are on scene. There have been some casualties. This has been declared as a major incident," said the spokesman. "It's too early to state what has happened at this stage," he said.

The National Grid, which supplies power to the Underground, said there had been no problems with its system which could have contributed to the incidents.

....

"People don't seem to be panicked, but there's so many police and ambulances coming into the areas. People are just concerned, and some are just annoyed at the delay."



 
 
ghadis
11:32 / 07.07.05
Got half way to work on Victoria line before coming back home. Seems like mobile phone lines are pretty jamnmed so getting throuhgh to many is going to be a problem.
 
 
Jub
11:36 / 07.07.05
smoothly and Waxy - all a bit vague. sorry. few mates in the city who I'm trying to get hold of. fucking mobile network's jammed.
 
 
b
11:36 / 07.07.05
First I knew about it was a call from a mate back home asking what was going on. News is still coming in looks like it might be over now?

Hope everyone is ok.
 
  

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