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More "Incidents" in London Today (Updated)
There were a number of minor "partial" explosions on the London transport network today, 3 tube stations were closed and evacuated. Nobody seems to have been seriously injured.
- Passengers heard a bang at the front of a train at Warren Street Tube station.
- Shepherd's Bush tube station saw a man threaten to blow himself up before disappearing.
- At Oval Tube station passengers were evacuated from a train after seeing "white smoke".
- The driver of a route 26 bus in Hackney Road in Bethnal Green heard a bang and went upstairs to find the windows were blown out.
It seems that these were atacks designed to kill, at least so say the Metropolitan police, though thankfully nobody seems to have been seriously hurt and there are no fatalities.
There were reports that bystanders tried to tackle the Oval station suspect as he fled the scene. I want to offer my admiration to those people as it must take some guts to tackle someone so deranged and twisted. I only hope that faced with a comparable situation I would react similarly.
Hopefully this ballsup by the would be terrorists will give police forensic teams the opportunity to put together some sort of case against the perpetrators, with the BBC reporting on speculation that the devices were so similar to those used in the 7th July attacks that they may come from the same batch.
Anyone with information can contact the police via their website.