A series of explosions on the London Underground and on three buses have left several people injured and caused services to be suspended across the city.
The immediate cause of the Tube blasts, the first of which was reported at 8.49am at Aldgate station, was described by the British Transport Police as a power surge. The BTP confirmed there were a number of “walking wounded” and one report of a person classed as “life at risk”.
Four other incidents were reported at Edgeware Road station, King’s Cross, Old Street and Russell Square.
There were also reports of explosions on three buses, one of which happened in Tavistock Square just minutes after the blasts on the Underground.
“I saw lots of people running up a road and then saw the top of a bus destroyed,” an eyewitness told Sky News.
Passengers spoke of hearing a “huge thud’’at Edgware Road station and travellers emerged from tunnels covered in blood and soot and with torn clothing.
An eyewitness at Aldgate reported smoke rising from the station and commuters with burns leaving the scene as the area was evacuated.
Shares on the FTSE 100 lost almost 1 per cent after the blasts, which come just a day after London won its bid to host the 2012 Olympics in a closely fought contest with Paris.
A London Ambulance Service spokeswoman said of the Aldgate incident: “We have just sent some resources to the scene. We have sent a number of vehicles to Liverpool Street station.“
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The immediate cause of the Tube blasts, the first of which was reported at 8.49am at Aldgate station, was described by the British Transport Police as a power surge. The BTP confirmed there were a number of “walking wounded” and one report of a person classed as “life at risk”.
Four other incidents were reported at Edgeware Road station, King’s Cross, Old Street and Russell Square.
There were also reports of explosions on three buses, one of which happened in Tavistock Square just minutes after the blasts on the Underground.
“I saw lots of people running up a road and then saw the top of a bus destroyed,” an eyewitness told Sky News.
Passengers spoke of hearing a “huge thud’’at Edgware Road station and travellers emerged from tunnels covered in blood and soot and with torn clothing.
An eyewitness at Aldgate reported smoke rising from the station and commuters with burns leaving the scene as the area was evacuated.
Shares on the FTSE 100 lost almost 1 per cent after the blasts, which come just a day after London won its bid to host the 2012 Olympics in a closely fought contest with Paris.
A London Ambulance Service spokeswoman said of the Aldgate incident: “We have just sent some resources to the scene. We have sent a number of vehicles to Liverpool Street station.“
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