17/09/2017

‘We believe there is a second bomb; there is a man with knives on the loose’



Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...A bomb went off on a packed London Underground train on Friday, with some commuters badly burned.Eyewitnesses heard a loud bang and saw a “wall of fire” as the device detonated.
“The first thing I saw was an orange sort of fireball encompassing the whole Tube train. Bit like you see on 24, the TV show, or a movie sort of situation,” a local resident, Charlie Craven, who works in the City, London’s financial centre, told Agence France-Presse (AFP).

Lauren Hubbard also heard the explosion and said she saw that a “wall of fire was just coming towards us”.
“It’s hard to explain because it happens in an instant and you run. There were people in it of course, this fireball is just going over your head and everybody?s screaming and you just run out of the tube as quick as you can,” she said.
Twitter user @Rrigs, who posted pictures of a white bucket smouldering on the train, said a “Fireball flew down carriage and we just jumped out open door”.
The bucket looked like the type used by builders and there appeared to be cables coming out of it.
Twenty-people were injured in the attack – most with flash burns, according to police.
Others were injured in the stampede during chaotic scenes at the station in a leafy and normally quiet part of London.
“We were very, very lucky,” said Sally Faulding, a 51-year-old teacher who was on her way to work.
The explosion took place just as the train pulled into the station, she said, so “the doors opened automatically and everybody got out”.
Louis Hather, 21, was travelling three carriages down from where the explosion took place.
“People were being trampled on. I tried to get out of the way but I could feel myself getting pushed down the stairs,” he told AFP.
“I went back and got my stuff. I could smell the burning. Like when you burn plastic,” the IT security worker added.
Hather’s leg was cut and bruised in the stampede.
Emergency services arrived at the scene within minutes and quickly cordoned off a large area around the station located in a quiet, upper-class part of west London.
Local residents and businesses rallied together with businesses offering tea and the use of their toilets to local residents unable to get home.
The local council of Hammersmith and Fulham opened a “rest centre” nearby to help people affected.
“This is a difficult situation, people are stressed out and they need to talk to their families and for that they need battery,” Lucy, the owner of an osteopathy practice on nearby Winchendon Road told AFP.
“We’re just helping as we can.”
According to MailOnline, police believe they have now identified the Parsons Green Tube train bomber using CCTV but Scotland Yard has refused to speculate on his identity or release an image.
Officers are hunting for the bomber – and a potential terror cell – amid claims the wanted man could be armed with knives and may have planted other explosive devices.
The crude bomb hidden in a builder’s bucket could have killed dozens but failed to properly detonate and sent a ‘wall of fire’ through the carriage at Parsons Green injuring at least 22 people, including a 10-year-old boy.
A timer is understood to have been found on the device, suggesting the terrorist left it on board the train and then got off before it exploded.
Terrified passengers were seen covered in blood with scorched hands, legs, faces and hair – others suffered crush injuries during a ‘human stampede’ as they ‘ran for their lives’ in west London at 8.20 a.m.
Photographs show what experts believe is a ‘pretty unsophisticated’ bomb in a flaming white bucket inside a freezer bag with Christmas lights protruding out of the top – a type of fuse encouraged by ISIS in its online manuals and magazines.
Security sources have said the IED had a timer, indicating the bucket bomber left in on the train and fled before it exploded with police spotters watching back CCTV on the train and at Tube stations.
An officer at the scene told MailOnline: “We believe there is a second bomb – there is a man with knives on the loose.”
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan urged Londoners to show vigilance and told LBC: ‘There is a manhunt under way as we speak.’
Witnesses to the explosion said there was a loud “bang”, a flash and then a ball of flame engulfed surrounding passengers on the ‘packed’ District Line train.
Luke Warsmey said: “The explosion was like a large match going off at the end of the carriage. People just started sprinting. It was every man for himself when that happened. The burn victims had severe leg injuries.
“It was a very busy commuter train, young and old, school children going to their schools. I saw was nannies trying to look for kids, because of the rush of people just taking five and six year olds away from them and they were trying to look for them.”
Prime Minister Theresa May chaired a meeting of the Government’s Cobra emergencies committee this afternoon to discuss the terrorist attack – the fifth major British terror attack this year.
Mrs May later appealed to any members of the public with images of the incident to pass them to the police.
She said people should “remain vigilant” adding: ‘The threat of terrorism we face is severe but together, by working together, we will defeat them’.

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