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21 July 2005
London Blasts Cause Chaos On
Tube
A
number of Tube stations have been evacuated and lines closed
after minor blasts in what Met Police chief Sir Ian Blair
says is a "serious incident".
Sir Ian said only three
Tube lines were still suspended and it was time London
started to return to normal.
The minor explosions -
just two weeks after blasts killed 56 - involved detonators
only, a BBC reporter said.
In addition, a blast was
reported on the top deck of a Number 26 bus in Hackney Road
in Bethnal Green.
There were no injuries and
the bus suffered no structural damage.
Eyewitnesses heard bangs
and saw abandoned rucksacks at the sites of the incidents at
Warren Street, Shepherd's Bush Hammersmith and City line and
Oval tube stations as well as the number 26 bus.
At Warren Street and Oval
a man was seen running away from the scene.
Large areas around all
four sites were cordoned off.
One person was injured at
Warren Street. There were reports the injured person may
have been holding a rucksack containing the
detonator.
Sir Ian told reporters:
"The bombs appear to be smaller than on the last occasion
but we don't know the implications of all this
yet."
He appealed for witnesses
with mobile phone pictures of any of the incidents to send
them to www.police.uk.
 The
BBC's Andrew Winstanley said devices had been found but
appeared to have been dummies, containing no
explosives.
Police said armed officers
had been deployed to University College Hospital after an
incident. A large area was cordoned off.
There were reports a memo
had been circulated to staff to look out for a 6ft 2in black
or Asian man with wires sticking out of his top.
The hospital has not
received any casualties or been alerted to
casualties.
A man was arrested near
Downing Street by armed police and led away down
Whitehall.
The whole of the Northern
Line has been suspended, along with the Victoria Line, the
Hammersmith and City line, Piccadilly and the Bakerloo
line.
A number of other stations
were closed including Great Portland Street, Westminster,
Waterloo, St Paul's and Oxford Circus tube stations, as well
as Waterloo tube station and King's Cross
Thameslink.
Tony Blair cancelled
events in the afternoon and attended a meeting of the Cobra
committee along with Sir Ian. Whitehall was briefly closed
down.
London Underground went to
an amber alert with trains taken to the next station and
evacuated.
An eyewitness at Oval
station said there had been a small bang, and a man had then
run off when the Tube reached the station.
A spokesman for Stagecoach
said the driver of the number 26 bus travelling through
Shoreditch had heard a bang on upper deck, gone upstairs and
seen the windows were blown out.
The bus driver was very
shaken but said to be fine.
At Shepherd's Bush
Hammersmith and City line station, police told reporters
that a man had threatened to blow himself up and then ran
off.
Sosiane Mohellavi, 35, was
travelling from Oxford Circus to Walthamstow when she was
evacuated from a train at Warren Street.
"I was in the carriage and
we smelt smoke - it was like something was burning.
"Everyone was panicked and people were screaming. We had to
pull the alarm. I am still shaking."
The BBC's Rory Barnett
said there had been no smoke on the platform at Warren
Street.
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