Thursday, July 07, 2005
More on the explosions
CNN -- Near simultaneous explosions rocked the London Underground network and three buses at the morning rush hour, police said, causing fatalities and prompting officials to shut down the entire underground transport network.
In the first report of casualties, City of London police told CNN there had been two fatalities at Aldgate east station.
SKY NEWS -- BUS 'RIPPED IN TWO' BY BLAST
One eyewitness described "half a bus flying through the air" as an explosion ripped apart a London bus.
The incident happened in Russell Square.
Belinda Seabrook said: "I was on the bus in front and heard an incredible bang, I turned round and half the double decker bus was in the air.
Mrs Seabrook said the bus was travelling from Euston to Russell Square and had been "packed" with people turned away from Tube stops.
"It was a massive explosion and there were papers and half a bus flying through the air, I think it was the number 205," she said.
"There must be a lot of people dead as all the buses were packed, they had been turning people away from the tube stops.
"We were about 20 metres away, that was all."
In the first report of casualties, City of London police told CNN there had been two fatalities at Aldgate east station.
SKY NEWS -- BUS 'RIPPED IN TWO' BY BLAST
One eyewitness described "half a bus flying through the air" as an explosion ripped apart a London bus.
The incident happened in Russell Square.
Belinda Seabrook said: "I was on the bus in front and heard an incredible bang, I turned round and half the double decker bus was in the air.
Mrs Seabrook said the bus was travelling from Euston to Russell Square and had been "packed" with people turned away from Tube stops.
"It was a massive explosion and there were papers and half a bus flying through the air, I think it was the number 205," she said.
"There must be a lot of people dead as all the buses were packed, they had been turning people away from the tube stops.
"We were about 20 metres away, that was all."
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