London Underground shut down

[Ukle]

They have just shut down all the Londen Underground after the power surges this morning. See BBC for details.

Lucky I am still working at home ill as I was intending to be in London today, so get to avoid the chaos that London will turn into today.

 

[`mongoose]

Reports of an explosion on the bbc site.

I hope everybody caught in the blast is ok.

M

 

[Ukle]

Yup is walking wounded, with one person life threatening injuries according to News 24.

There have been various 'explosions' across the whole network, and appears that 2 trains have collided at Edgwere road when it happened but they dont know the situation with them as no power down there so they dont even know if there are any passangers on the trains.

 

[Furr]

ITN news is reporting a bus has been blown apart by a bomb.... hoping their sources are just getting it wrong....

 

[Ukle]

Yup is far serious. At least one dead on the Bus but so far no fatalities reported from the underground explosions.

 

[Ukle]

Now at least 3 Bus bombs 4 underground stations have been hit. Fatalities now reported on the underground and still no word on the 2 trains at edgwere road.

All the bus bombs happened an hour after the underground was shut, no doubt to ensure the busses were packed with people

 

[Poag]

sounds like one bus between russell square and travistock square.

Appears three people seeing ti from 3 different points.

 

[Poag]

they just showed a picture...the bus looks liek its split in two at the top deck

 

[tankgirl_ni]

this is messed up.
is it just an accident or is it the dreaded T word?

 

[Poag]

4 locations...one above ground....its a T

 

[Gray]

All this after the voting for the Olympics as well...

The BBC site is taking somewhat of a hammering, not working for me

 

[Poag]

We've got BBC 24 on...just said fatalities on the bus....safest place to be is in a building right now.

Its gonna be becuas eof the G8.

Just watching them sending walking paramedics into a underground station with some of those fireman containment suit things.

Goverment just said theres gonna be regular updates...do not make unnecessary trips.

 

[Ukle]

Its more than 4 locations.

The unions are reporting 3 buses have been hit one is at Russel Square.

4/5 Underground Stations have had explosions occur - Edgwere Road, Kings Cross, Liverpool Street, Aldgate and think there is another but cant remember the name.

Note BBC is not reporting the news 'live' it is delaying it as per its new proceedure in order to not report anything in a major incident which is not true.

 

[tankgirl_ni]

argh why cant everyone just be nice to each other

 

[Ukle]

Yup they are saying do not go into the center of London as it could well of not ended, especially as the last explosions are only an hour old.

Yup a new Bomb has just been reported by an eye witness on Sky this one definatly at Tavistock square, this has happened in last few minutes.

 

[mr.Blacky]

CNN claims terrorist and because its coordinated attack it is an Al Quada attack.

 

[xane]

BBC24 just reported that controlled explosions are to be done around the bus incident !

 

[tankgirl_ni]

..Its gonna be becuas eof the G8.

its too damn organised to be G8 protesters... besides the G8 is in scotland not london.. and there's a meeting of european secretary's of state in belfast today so why not bomb here?!

 

[Nala]

Another bomb/explosion now, on Liverpool St.

 

[Earl]

What feed are you lot watching? I'm stuck with 1,2,3,4 and not getting much info

 

[Poag]

..Its gonna be becuas eof the G8.

its too damn organised to be G8 protesters... besides the G8 is in scotland not london.. and there's a meeting of european secretary's of state in belfast today so why not bomb here?!

yeah but security so so tight in scotland they wouldn't have a chance of pulling it off..wheres the next biggest place? London


News just come from brighton trains are closed

 

[Poag]

yeah but security so so tight in scotland they wouldn't have a chance of pulling it off..wheres the next biggest place? London


News just come from brighton trains are closed

I said wouldn't have a chance..i change that too..it would be considerably harder.

 

[Will]

yeah but security so so tight in scotland they wouldn't have a chance of pulling it off..wheres the next biggest place? London


News just come from brighton trains are closed

The G8 protesters are far more organised that a lot of people give them credit for, but this isn't their style. If it was targeted against financial institutions and large business, maybe, but not against the public.

 

[Ukle]

Yup this is Al Quada its a perfect example of there type of attack - spread out and timed to cause maximum deaths.

Yup Brighton and Swindon are shut.

 

[Flimgoblin]

sounds like the madrid train bombings from a few years back - it's not G8 protesters, the worst they were doing was throwing benches around.

This is far nastier people.

 

[Ukle]

The army are now arriving at the sites, looks like the disaster plan is working.

 

[Brynn]

Wasnt the madrid the basque separatists?

 

[Will]

Wasnt the madrid the basque separatists?

Madrid was initially blamed on ETA, but it wasn't. The Spanish government didn't want the bombing to be about the Iraq war a few days before the election.

 

[Ukle]

Reporting at least 90 casualties at Aldgate station.

This is going to be in many hundreds

 

[maxi]

Honestly. if you want to see how a bunch of ill informed people will react in a situation like this. Come to Freddys house. I'm going to go inform the government, anyone mind if i pass on this forum for 'test purposes' ?

Whats mega crazy about this is there are roughly 7 million people directly effected! that's nuts!

I speculate it was Col Mustard.