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London Underground passengers have been injured following an explosion on a District Line train in south-west London.
Police and paramedics were called at 08:20 BST (07:20 GMT) on Friday to Parsons Green station in Fulham.

Pictures show a white bucket on fire inside a supermarket bag, but does not appear to show extensive damage to the inside of the Tube train carriage.

Witnesses described seeing at least one passenger with facial injuries.
Others have spoken of "panic" as alarmed passengers left the train at Parsons Green station.

Latest updates: Incident at Parsons Green
London Ambulance Service says it has sent a hazardous area response team to the scene.


Media captionWitnesses describe tube 'explosion' at Parsons Green
Passenger Chris Wildish told BBC Radio 5 live that he saw a bucket in a supermarket bag with "low-level flames coming out of it" by the door of the rear carriage.
One witness, called Luke, told 5 Live there was "a sort of loud explosion".

"It happened just as we were pulling up to the Tube station so everyone just sort of piled out of the Tube and there was a distinct smell of burning," he said.

"I certainly saw some burning injuries," he said, but added that "everyone behaved in the right manner as such, everyone got off as quickly as they can and you know supported everyone".


Media captionBBC presenter Sophie Raworth was near Parsons Green station minutes after the incident happened
Emma, who was at Parsons Green station, said: "We were running down the stairs like... it felt like for our lives...

"And I went down the stairs and after a while people were just piling on top of each other, because people were falling over trying to run so quickly.

"And there were two ladies underneath me and a little boy to my right, his head had been smacked into the concrete."

BBC London presenter Riz Lateef, who was at Parsons Green on her way in to work, said: "There was panic as people rushed from the train, hearing what appeared to be an explosion"
"People were left with cuts and grazes from trying to flee the scene. There was lots of panic."
BBC News presenter Sophie Raworth says she saw a woman on a stretcher with burns to her face and legs.
People outside Parsons Green Tube stationImage copyrightREUTERS

Emergency services outside Parsons GreenImage copyrightREUTERS
Alex Littlefield, 24, a City worker, said: "I was walking around the corner to the Parsons Green Tube station and I saw the raised platform with everyone running and looking upset.

"I saw police officers, fire brigade... masses of people and armed police. There were lots of very, very distressed people. We've been pushed right back now."
Media technology consultant Richard Aylmer-Hall who was sitting on the "packed" District Line train said he saw several people injured, having apparently been trampled as they tried to escape.
The 53-year-old said "suddenly there was panic, lots of people shouting, screaming, lots of screaming.

"There was a woman on the platform who said she had seen a bag, a flash and a bang, so obviously something had gone off.

"I saw crying women, there was lots of shouting and screaming, there was a bit of a crush on the stairs going down to the streets," he said.

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Natasha Wills, assistant director of operations at London Ambulance Service, said: "We were called at 8:20 to reports of an incident at Parsons Green underground station.

"We have sent multiple resources to the scene including single responders in cars, ambulance crews, incident response officers and our hazardous area response team, with the first of our medics arriving in under five minutes.

"Our initial priority is to assess the level and nature of injuries. More information will follow when we have it."
Police outside Parsons GreenImage copyrightALEX LITTLEFIELD

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LONDON (AP) — London police and ambulances descended upon a subway station Friday after a reported explosion on a train standing at the platform, and a witness said commuters stampeded down the stairs to escape.

A commuter whose train was stopped at Parsons Green station says there was panic after a woman saw what appeared to be an explosion. A photo taken at the scene showed what appeared to be a burning pail inside a train. The commuter, Richard Aylmer-Hall, said he saw several people injured, apparently trampled as they fled.

https://apnews.com/b9eb42290aec47de...plosion-and-stampede-at-London-subway-station
 
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Counter terrorism detectives are now on the scene at #ParsonsGreen #LondonUnderground
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4887032/Explosion-underground-train-south-London.html

Many photos at link

At least 20 people are injured in Tube terror attack as home-made bucket bomb sends 'fireball flying down train carriage' amid reports of 'second device' and attacker is on the run

Met confirm blast on District Line train at Parsons Green was terror attack
Bloodied and burned commuters 'ran for their lives' after explosion on London Underground
People have fled in panic and jumped out the train doors at Parsons Green
Fireball has left several passengers on packed carriage with severe facial burns
Pictures from District Line train show burning bucket stashed in a Lidl carrier bag
Were you on the train or saw the bombing? Email martin.robinson@mailonline.co.uk
By Amie Gordon For Mailonline
PUBLISHED: 08:41, 15 September 2017 | UPDATED: 10:33, 15 September 2017


An explosion on a Tube train at the height of rush hour today sent a 'wall' of fire through the carriage injuring at least 20 people in a suspected terror attack.

Terrified commuters 'ran for their lives' and were seen covered in blood with scorched faces and hair after the incident at Parsons Green station in west London at 8.20am.

Photographs from the District Line train show what experts believe is a 'pretty unsophisticated' bucket bomb in a flaming white bucket inside a Lidl freezer bag with wire protruding out of the top.

One witness in the carriage told the BBC there was a 'bang' and then a 'wall of flames', which engulfed the carriage, with pictures showing a burning plastic bucket stashed in a Lidl carrier bag.

Scotland Yard sources have said that it is being treated as terrorist incident but said could not confirm claims from the scene there is another bomb and the suspect is on the run.

But an officer at the scene told MailOnline: 'We believe there is a second bomb - there is a man with knives on the loose.'

Prime Minister Theresa May is to chair a meeting of the Government's Cobra emergencies committee this afternoon to discuss the terrorist attack.


A photograph of the flaming white bucket taken just after it exploded around 8.20am shows a number of wires protruding out of the top and on to the train carriage floor


Photographs on social media show a bucket alight on the underground train


There is terror and panic at the station this morning, with police officers consoling members of the public


Armed Police, paramedics and firefighters were all said to be at the west London station within five minutes of the explosion


Horrified witnesses on social media claim there was a stampede as people were 'screaming and running off trains'

Shocking moment passengers watch bucket bomb on fire from platform


Armed Police, paramedics and firefighters were all said to be at the west London station within five minutes of the explosion today.

A hundred metre cordon was erected around the station and a police helicopter was also overhead.

Deputy Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, the senior national coordinator for CT policing, has declared it a terrorist incident.

Fulham fitness instructor Niyi Shokunbi, 24, was in the next carriage the moment the bomb went off.

He told MailOnline: 'I have never seen anything like it it was like something out of a film. I thought t was an acid attack. It happened like bang within ten seconds, i just wanted to run.

'I went towards the carriage where the bomb went off a woman said you don't want to go in there. I saw a little boy with scratches on his face crying for his brother. A woman was bleeding. Everyone was running. I've never seen anything like it.'

People suffered burns from the explosion and others were hurt in the crush as people fled.

Rob Partinton, 24, from Harrow told MailOnline: 'We were literally about two minutes from Parsons Green when the train suddenly stopped.

'I saw people running on the track opposite direction towards Fulham Broadway, I could hear no screams but a lot of people running. We've been held at the station for the last half an hour. It's pretty busy, a lot of police around and police dogs.'

Horrified witnesses on social media claim there is a stampede as people are 'screaming and running off trains'.

Another witness, Sham, said he saw a man with blood all over his face. 'There were loads of people crying and shaking,' he told 5 live.

'There were a lot of people limping and covered in blood. One guy I saw, his face was covered in blood - I've never seen anything like it.'

Parsons Green witness: Injured people ran, it was terrifying

Witnesses say people ran from the scene with 'blood on their face'

Bomb disposal experts are at the scene amid fears there could be second bomb
 
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Police treating London Undergound incident as terrorism
Updated / Friday, 15 Sep 2017 10:55
Police have said that a number of people were injured in the incident
Police have said that a number of people were injured in the incident
British authorities are treating an incident at a London metro station as terrorism.

Police said "a number of people" were injured in the incident.

Emergency services were called to a London Underground station this morning after reports of an explosion on a train.

Pictures appeared to show an explosion in a bucket towards the rear of a train.

The incident occurred at Parsons Green Tube station.

A metro.co.uk reporter said passengers suffered facial burns and others had been hurt in a subsequent stampede.

The Metropolitan Police said: "We are aware of an incident at Parsons Green Tube station. Officers are in attendance."

British Transport Police said: "We're aware of an incident at Parsons Green station. Officers are at the scene. The station is closed."

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An unverified picture circulating on social media showed a white bucket in a supermarket freezer bag with what appeared to be wires coming out of the top on the floor of one train carriage.

British Prime Minister Theresa May is to chair a meeting of the Cobra emergencies committee this afternoon to discuss the incident.







Transport for London said it is "investigating an incident at Parsons Green" and urged customers travelling between Wimbledon and Earls Court to use alternative routes.

A London Ambulance Service spokesman said: "We are on scene alongside the Metropolitan Police at Parsons Green."

London Fire Brigade said they were called to the incident at 8.21am.

They added that six fire engines, a fire rescue unit and around 50 firefighters and specialist officers were sent to the scene.

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Media technology consultant Richard Aylmer-Hall, 53, was sitting on the District Line train bound for central London when panic unfolded at around 8.20am.

He said he saw several people injured, having apparently been trampled as they tried to escape.

Natasha Wills, of London Ambulance Service said: "We were called at 8.20am to reports of an incident at Parsons Green underground station.

"We have sent multiple resources to the scene including single responders in cars, ambulance crews, incident response officers and our hazardous area response team, with the first of our medics arriving in under five minutes.

"Our initial priority is to assess the level and nature of injuries. More information will follow when we have it."

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan appealed for calm following the terror incident, saying London "will never be intimidated or defeated by terrorism."

BBC correspondent Riz Lateef, who was at the station travelling to work, said there was "panic as people rushed from the train, hearing what appeared to be an explosion.

"People were left with cuts and grazes from trying to flee the scene. There was lots of panic.

One passenger, named only as Lucas, told BBC 5 live: "I heard a really loud explosion - when I looked back there appeared to be a bag but I don't know if it's associated with it.

"I saw people with minor injuries, burnings to the face, arms, legs, multiple casualties in that way.

"People were helping each other."

https://www.rte.ie/news/2017/0915/904920-london-underground/
 
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Pretty girl dressed for work. I wonder what wound that bandage is covering. Lucky she's not blinded or something, you know?


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#BREAKING: #London emergency services says 18 people have been taken to hospitals from terrorist incident at #ParsonsGreen station #LiveDesk
 

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Foothiller

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As a result, the London PD is going to increase their patrols on Twitter and Facebook and make sure to go after anybody pointing out the weaknesses of the UK's immigration policy.

The religion of peace shall not be criticized in any way. But the religion of peace can say or do whatever it wants.

England, if not done already, is rapidly approaching the status of Sweden and Germany.

What a tragic end to a great country and people. Swallowed up by 80 IQ muslim hoards because of equalism, feminsm, marxism, and virtue signalling gone mad.

:shk:
 
Foothiller

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Just thought of the old Kinks song: Living on a Thin line....

"there's no England now..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsLhNxzwK1Y

"Living On A Thin Line"

All the stories have been told
Of kings and days of old,
But there's no England now.
All the wars that were won and lost
Somehow don't seem to matter very much anymore.
All the lies we were told,
All the lies of the people running round,
They're castles have burned.
Now I see change,
But inside we're the same as we ever were.

Living on a thin line,
Tell me now, what are we supposed to do?
Living on a thin line,
Tell me now, what are we supposed to do?
Living on a thin line,
Living this way, each day is a dream.
What am I, what are we supposed to do?
Living on a thin line,
Tell me now, what are we supposed to do?

Now another century nearly gone,
What are we gonna leave for the young?
What we couldn't do, what we wouldn't do,
It's a crime, but does it matter?
Does it matter much, does it matter much to you?
Does it ever really matter?
Yes, it really, really matters.

Living on a thin line,
Tell me now, what are we supposed to do?
Living on a thin line,
Tell me now, what are we supposed to do?

Now another leader says
Break their hearts and break some heads.
Is there nothing we can say or do?
Blame the future on the past,
Always lost in blood and guts.
And when they're gone, it's me and you.

Living on a thin line,
Tell me now, what are we supposed to do?
Living on a thin line,
Tell me now, what are we supposed to do?
Living on a thin line.
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Foothiller said:
As a result, the London PD is going to increase their patrols on Twitter and Facebook and make sure to go after anybody pointing out the weaknesses of the UK's immigration policy.

The religion of peace shall not be criticized in any way. But the religion of peace can say or do whatever it wants.

England, if not done already, is rapidly approaching the status of Sweden and Germany.

What a tragic end to a great country and people. Swallowed up by 80 IQ muslim hoards because of equalism, feminsm, marxism, and virtue signalling gone mad.

:shk:
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At a certain point, reality overtakes this sort of PC BS...It just takes way too long....
 
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I'm sure right before the blast someone was yelling about all snack bars.

Makes you wonder how many nits it takes to make a nat or put another way, how many incidents have to happen to wake people up?
 
Melodi

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Housecarl said:
At a certain point, reality overtakes this sort of PC BS...It just takes way too long....
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Also, London/UK, in general, has a slightly more complicated situation (similar to parts of Germany only worse) that is that the UK has had immigration from "Asia" (both Middle East and India) for almost 300 years.

There are great-great grandchildren of "immigrants" from back when the UK had "An Empire" and this isn't the same problem as say Sweden where immigrants started being "invited" into what had been an almost identikit society until 25 years ago (they starting bringing people in by the boat load when we were there 22 years ago or so).

The UK also has recent immigration, but the problems with "terror" are two fold, some of it is the newcomers and/or Saudi mosques/schools etc who are already radicalized/are easy targets for it; but also some of those grandkids and great-grand kids who are also sometimes in danger of getting radicalized by these people and they are much harder to recognize or catch up with.

You can't really "deport" families that have lived in the UK almost as long as the US has been a nation, but you can investigate and prosecute criminal behavior to the full extent of the law and that includes investigating and arresting Imams and mosque owners who either incite violence in public and/or get a warrant to investigate for hidden weapons and if found again - jail time, plus deportation for non-citizens and stripping of citizenship from first generation offenders.
 
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Melodi said:
Also, London/UK, in general, has a slightly more complicated situation (similar to parts of Germany only worse) that is that the UK has had immigration from "Asia" (both Middle East and India) for almost 300 years.



You can't really "deport" families that have lived in the UK almost as long as the US has been a nation, but you can investigate and prosecute criminal behavior to the full extent of the law and that includes investigating and arresting Imams and mosque owners who either incite violence in public and/or get a warrant to investigate for hidden weapons and if found again - jail time, plus deportation for non-citizens and stripping of citizenship from first generation offenders.
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This^^^^Much like attacks in in the FUSA, it will probably filter out that "they were known to law enforcement" This begs the question to upper leo and intelligence services hierarchy : "Either you are incompetent or you are complicit, which is it?"

ETA North Korea apparently has a three generation rule, If you do something offensive to the country, THREE generations of your family suffer. I'm not advocating this, but I see some utility in moving closer to their way of thinking in regards to terrorism.
 
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Luddite said:
This^^^^Much like attacks in in the FUSA, it will probably filter out that "they were known to law enforcement" This begs the question to upper leo and intelligence services hierarchy : "Either you are incompetent or you are complicit, which is it?"

ETA North Korea apparently has a three generation rule, If you do something offensive to the country, THREE generations of your family suffer. I'm not advocating this, but I see some utility in moving closer to their way of thinking in regards to terrorism.
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Neither one. There are laws that say yiu have to actually BREAK one before you lose your social freedom.

Now. OF COURSE you COULD argue that the LAWS are either complicit or incompetent and PERHAPS have a point, but Common Law would STILL prevail....
 
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night driver said:
Neither one. There are laws that say yiu have to actually BREAK one before you lose your social freedom.

Now. OF COURSE you COULD argue that the LAWS are either complicit or incompetent and PERHAPS have a point, but Common Law would STILL prevail....
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No argument from me with your assessment. I'll be more specific with an anecdote. Garland Tx Pamela Gellar event. Records released and Even Anderson Cooper reported that the FBI agent had encouraged the terrorists to "tear up Texas". FBI agent took pictures of event right up to the point of when the shooting started then fled.
IMO there are small elements of our law enforcement and intelligence communities FOMENTING and allowing some of these attacks to de-stabilize our nations. The terrorists are just tools ignorant of their job. My hope is that the citizens see not only the jihadis, but those elements fomenting them.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anderson-cooper-investigates-first-homegrown-isis-attack/
 
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Melodi

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Marthanoir said:
Have they admitted it's Muslim yet?
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I think they need an actual suspect and/or a claim or responsibility first and at least this time they didn't try to pretend "it isn't terror related" from the moment it happened until it became obvious that it was.
 
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Marthanoir said:
Have they admitted it's Muslim yet?
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Good question. Not projecting, but I found myself, for the last few years, thinking every time a terroristic news story breaks, "Oh I hope its not some right wing idiot".

Generally, its ALWAYS some jihadi. Why have I allowed myself to worry about this???? Because we know down deep, that this all leads to further loss of our freedoms.

THAT IS THE END GAME!
 
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Vegas321 said:
Nope, is a Sweede for sure...
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If it isn't Islamic terrorism (almost certain given the silly but potentially deadly bucket bomb) it is almost certainly IRA but THEY usually give a warning call and use more sophisticated bombs.

The Lone nut is always a remote possibility but that doesn't pass the "smell test" and even the Police in London are not being forced to pretend that it does this time.
 
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Melodi said:
If it isn't Islamic terrorism (almost certain given the silly but potentially deadly bucket bomb) it is almost certainly IRA but THEY usually give a warning call and use more sophisticated bombs.

The Lone nut is always a remote possibility but that doesn't pass the "smell test" and even the Police in London are not being forced to pretend that it does this time.
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Nah if it was the paramilitaries it would have destroyed the train, looks like a home-made damp squib to me,
 
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Luddite said:
Good question. Not projecting, but I found myself, for the last few years, thinking every time a terroristic news story breaks, "Oh I hope its not some right wing idiot".

Generally, its ALWAYS some jihadi. Why have I allowed myself to worry about this???? Because we know down deep, that this all leads to further loss of our freedoms.

THAT IS THE END GAME!
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Sky News were discussing Anders Brevik and the right wing terror :shkr:
you know cause it unfair to keep blaming the Jihadists an all,

coincidently they've just charged 2 British soldiers with terror offences and being part of some right wing neo-nazi terror group thats banned,

'NAZI' SQUADDIES, Two British Army soldiers charged for being members of neo-Nazi group National Action and preparing acts of terror

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/44426...national-action-and-preparing-acts-of-terror/
 
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#18:

My hope is that the citizens see not only the jihadis, but those elements fomenting them.
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Incomplete sentence ^^^^

another version:

My hope is that the citizens see, clearly in their sights, not only the jihadis, but those elements fomenting them.
 
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vestige said:
#18:



Incomplete sentence ^^^^

another version:

My hope is that the citizens see, clearly in their sights, not only the jihadis, but those elements fomenting them.
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I understand your point Vestige, but I'm still hopeful that response can be avoided.
 
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Pretty girl dressed for work. I wonder what wound that bandage is covering.

No blood on her clothes... head wounds usually bleed copiously.

Just sayin'...
 
Ragnarok

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Dozdoats said:
Pretty girl dressed for work. I wonder what wound that bandage is covering.

No blood on her clothes... head wounds usually bleed copiously.

Just sayin'...
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Internal wounds don't, though.

With the head splint, I'm thinking ( maybe ) a dislocated jaw?
 
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