Big Bang? Can you elaborate?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4659093.stm

Gah. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4659093.stm

beat me to it Mike!

I've got quick fingers (ooer missus)

Bit more from the < ahref="http://www.guardian.co.uk/transport/Story/0,2763,1523084,00.html">Guardian;

Several hurt in London Underground explosion

Press Association
Thursday July 7, 2005

Several people have been injured after a reported explosion on the London Underground today.

Emergency services were called to Liverpool Street station after reports of an explosion shortly before 9am.

British Transport police said the incident, which was reported at 8.49am between Liverpool Street and Aldgate stations on the Metropolitan line, was believed to have been caused by a collision between two trains, a power cut or a power cable exploding.

A London Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: "We have just sent some resources out to the scene. We have sent a number of vehicles to Liverpool Street station."

Article continues
BTP confirmed there were "walking wounded", and said paramedics had responded to one report of a person classed as "life at risk".

"There are walking wounded, but that is as much as we know at the moment," a spokesman said.

He confirmed that the incident had taken place on the Metropolitan line between Aldgate and Liverpool Street and said the line had been evacuated. King's Cross, Liverpool Street and Aldgate stations have also been cleared.

hmmm since when do power cables, spontaneously explode?

Maybe a power transformer overloading

Oh, and now the entire tube network's been closed down apparently.

Do you guys really want the olympics?

London Tube explosiosn... "The entire network has been shut down following explosions at Aldgate, Edgware Road, King's Cross, Old Street and Russell Square."

5 explosions ?

ITN are reporting a Bomb

Hope this is ok to post whole areticles -

"Several people have been injured after explosions blamed on a power surge led to the whole London Underground network being closed down.

British Transport Police said some of the power surges had caused explosions.

Surges took place at Aldgate, Edgware Road, King's Cross, Old Street and Russell Square stations.

A spokesman said there were "walking wounded" at Liverpool Street station but one person's life was reported to be "at risk".

London Fire Brigade said four crews were at Liverpool Street and more were on their way.

A British Transport Police spokesman said that emergency services were dealing with reports of an explosion at 0849 BST on the Metropolitan Line between Liverpool Street and Aldgate.

One passenger, who had left the Tube at Fenchurch Street Station, and walked to Aldgate East, told BBC Five Live that he saw injured people.

"As I walked through the bus station I could see people lying on the ground, black, as if they'd been covered in smoke. There were about three or four people on the floor being treated."

Eyewitness Paul Woloszyn from BBC News, who was at Blackhorse Road station on the Victoria Line, said: ""We were told there was a bomb at Liverpool Street station.

"I was on the Tube, and they stopped the train and told everyone to get off an evacuated the station."

He said staff had said the entire Tube network had been affected, and leaflets had been handed out with details of alternative bus routes.

Another eyewitness, Dorothy Molloy, had been on a Tube train at King's Cross and said "staff just chucked everyone out of the station".

She said staff there had not given any details, but she said two passengers she had spoken to had said they had received messages saying there had been bombs.

"People didn't really know what was going on, they were just huffing and puffing and saying how annoying it was," she said.

"People don't seem to be panicked, but there's so many police and ambulances coming into the areas. People are just concerned, and some are just annoyed at the delay."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4659093.stm

Ok, sky says apparently a bus has exploded.

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1188265,00.html

Terrorist attack


has to be

Doesnt *have* to be, but it is rather an Occam's Razor kind of thing.

Alfie? Where's your sisters? Everyone okay over there?

From Sky News; " According to reports a bus has exploded in central London just minutes after a number of blasts on London's Underground.

"I saw lots of people running up a road and then saw the top of a bus destroyed," one eyewitness told Sky News.

Sky News producer Bob Mills said he heard the loud explosion near Euston Station.

Scotland Yard could not confirm reports of an explosion on a bus in Russell Square. A spokeswoman said police were at the scene and attempting to determine what had happened."

Are mobile phones working down near you Alfie?

My girlfriend's got training in London today - hopefully she will have got to work well before this as she was staying in greenwich, but I can't get her on the phone - just get a weird tone.

but you and your son are okay, yes?

oh my god, bus union officials are reporting at least 3 bus explosions...

I hope everyone is ok

WTF

3 bus explosions!

BBC News 24 interviewing an eyewitness reporting having seen at least one dead.

A bus blown up in Tavistock Place.

mobile phones seem to be fine Chris.

Fox News reporting 7 explosions

Guys? Adam (adamtime) goes in and out of Liverpool street station to get to work every day. I hope he's all right...

oh shit

BBC are showing pictures of the bombed bus in tavistock square

For those who can't access a tv can get news 24 over the net

http://support.bbc.co.uk/multicast/rams/uni/news24.ram

thank you. :)

Stil trying to get hold of my girlfriend. Little bit scary.

This is horrifyingly familiar. *very worried*

The BBC news web-site is pretty much "slashdotted" at the moment. I can't get it to refresh :(

I can't get on any news sites, but the link I gave to news 24 is working. The sound is fine, but the pictures are only updating every few seconds.

Im switching between news feeds I'll keep you up to date.


-Reports secondary explosion in tavistock square

ananova.com is up as is skynews, but I am on a very fast connection here
we've had bbc news live streaming for over an hour without problem.

OK, so apparently the whole of Michelle's team hasn't got in for their training yet - I just spoke to their London office.

I got the live news 24 feed about twenty five minutes ago (fast connection too), but I'd say that I wouldn't be able to connect to it now.

and distinctlyaverage Im sure everyone is trying to use the phones at thw same time and blocking the network.

Apparently it was a tourist bus.

A new eyewitness reporting that theTavistock Place bus was a covered tourist bus.

yeah, I guess that's right Hotdog. I'm sure she'll be fine - hopefully she just couldn't get on the tube becasue it was all closed.

would she have been using the tube 'average?
where was the training?

You know what it's like on new years eve trying to text.

Three confirmed explosions.

Another bomb near Liverpool St at Houndsditch

She was staying in the millenium village, going to

1 Plough Place
London
EC4A 1DE
Any adeas what route that would be?

It's said on the news that the phone network is saturated

ITV are reporting phone lines are jammed.

20 people dead so far

She won' have got on the bus - she'll have taken the tube and walked.

No reports of fatalities from the BBC yet.

train crash King's Cross?

No sorry Phoenix, BBC just quoted a policeman saying the "major incident" was a crash at King's Cross

No apparently, there has now been a crash at King's Cross.

but also explosions... they're saying it's a hallmark of a terroist attack.

**comment removed my mike**

Suspect package found at Stockwell Stn

All public transport has now been closed

Army on the streets

What's the significant date?

I'l agree this has some very spooky terrorist like elements to it and I jsut hope friends in London are okay. Texting into London isn't working right now. The lines are jammed up tight.

Apparently part of the reason the phones have gone down is to stop people from being able to detinate devices by mobiles.

i'd have been through Kings X and old street this morning, had i not had my laptop stolen through my back window last night!
This stuff doesn't bear thinking about, my thoughts go out to everyone who has been affected by this!

shite didnt mean to post anonymous! ^^

6 explosions (1 bus) many casualties, all transport at standstill, don't phone emergency services, says chief of police

Statement by PM at Midday

I jsut got a text through to London, but took about 10 minutes. I don't think they've shut the lines down, they're jsut too busy to be of any real use.

Pheonix..I completely forgot about that.

So, 'incidents' at;

Edgeware Road
King's Cross
Liverpool Street
Russel Square
Oldgate East ?
Moorgate

I know it's not. Sorry. But I think it has something to do with the olympic bid. I think whoever has done this is saying 'look how unsafe you city is. Are you sure you want to host the olympics'.

I wonder if Paris had won it would have happened over there?

You can email news@sky.com or text 84501 and they will display it on a ticker tape at the bottom of the screen if you are worried about friends or relatives

OK do sll these stations have anything in common?

I am unfamiliar with the geography of the city, but is there some clear connection here?

Phoenix- Are you going to have problems getting your son back out of school again?

If anyone sees what the casualty bureux number is can you put it up here asap please?

Thank you. This clarifies things for me a bit.

*gets candles together*

They are all on the metropolitan line

BBC told is almost certainly Al Queda

finally ITV saying it looks too much like al queada, and very much a replica of madrid.

The bbc have just said that sources say they believe it's Al Quaeda.

Two dead at Aldgate East.

For any one trying to call people on mobiles. The following was on the BBC website.

A spokesman for Vodafone said emergency services were being given priority access to the mobile phone network which was causing problems for other users.


If you can't get through to someone's mobile that's the most probable reason

Police advice is to stay where you are and do not travel

I feel sick.

the thing that gets me is that aldgate and edgware road have large muslim communities, kings cross of course would be hit because its one of the busiest stations, i mean almost every journey i take goes through kings cross!

Jusus christ, ive just seen, and im at work, all my clients are in london, VIsa for one,, hope evreyones ok!! and all london bloggers!!

text's are coming through for me on the orange network, but calls are impossible

guys, i work at vodafone business, netwaork is mainly for government and emergency services so the chances of making a call is rare!! ill give an update soon

Yea texts are coming through on vodafone too. Haven't tried calling.

I'm in basingstoke which is on a main line out of London. So I'm worried about getting home tonight.

Luckily all my friends in London (of which there are more than I thought) seem to be okay.

you ok though kos??

do you know if the basingstoke VISA buildings Ok, cant contact my clients there!!

Cheers phoenix. I know - she's probably just stuck somewhere stupid not able to go anywhere.

*grabs the whisky.

DA- Im sure she's most worried that you dont know where she is yet. All will be well. :)

everyone thinks of the worst case scenario, everything ll be ok DA

Yea I'm okay Silent. I haven't heard any news of anything happening here yet.

good good!
apparantly swindon and brighton railways are evacuated - security incident too!!

DA I agree with phoenix. Have a sit down, drink and try to relax a bit. It'll be ok

Yes both of them have been shut down. And they're further away from London than Basingstoke.

No one's getting out of London ... I'm the only one of my team left in Brum; everyone went back to London last night. National Rail services out of the city are very, very restricted.

At least it means I can sit in the office and watch News 24 all day!

strange

I only just heard -- OMG I hope everyone is alright... Holy shit. :(

Cheers guys. In the house on my own this morning (parents have just flown off to France) so it's hard to stay calm. I know she'll be fine, it's just bloody hard sitting here 100+ mile saway not being able to do anything.

same here, i just have to be patient! we all do

DA I got separated from my husband in Manchester when the big bomb went off there. I know how you feel but honestly at this stage there is nothing to do but wait. Once the emergency services get things settled down communications will get back to normal. At that point you'll be able to call and will see that she's okay. I know it's easy for us to say don't worry and that you'll still worry whatever we say, but trust me, you'll make yourself ill which won't help anyone. Enjoy that drink and please try to relax. *HUG*

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Explosions%2C_%27serious_incidents%27_occuring_across_London
/>
Any idea what caused the big bang near liverpool street? I haven't seen any reports about that location before. (maybe liverpool street is near one of the locations affected? )

Cheers guys. you all rock.

I know that in 2 days time I'll be sitting in Norwich getting drunk with you guys forgetting all about this,

And eating copious amounts of imported sugar. :)

damn right you will :) and the first one will be on me

:-D

sounds good to me DA!!

PM on TV NOW!

That was short and to the point.

man, what an emotional rollercoaster it must be for Our Tone - immense happiness yesterday, then today...

What did he say, we dont have the pleaseure of a TV in the office

my sister said that there were about 8 police vans going up the edgware road last night, wether that was to do with olympic celebrations or something else, who knows?

he said it was a terrorist attack and called it a barbarian act. he's coming to london today but the g8 summit is going to continue in his absence.

well at least hes coming down here!!

Charles Clarke statement in 5 mins

so scary to think i work in old street and due to other circumstances i was running late!!

Rescue operation at Kings Cross

London Ambulance Service reporting that people still trapped at Kings Cross, and fatalities.

BBC reporting a "large number of casualties" across seven incidents, but no specifics.

Just spoken to Michelle WOOOOOOO!

Thanks guys. She hadn't got a clue what was going on bless her. Thanks for keeping me sane.

I'm so glad she's alright DA!

good to hear people are safe.

YES!!!!!!!!

*happydances*

*flings confetti*

OKay... Now...Um..Has anyone heard from Adam (adamtime)?

yeah, really good to hear, but dont put the whisky down, that would be rude!!

I'm glad she's ok DA. I can't imagine your relief.

DA. Glad she's okay and that by extension that you are too :-) The nice thing about groups like this is that we can give each other support in real time.

enormous *PHEW*.

Fantastic news DA.


hoping everone else is ok

Headcount ?

i not heared of anyone missing from here, all seems ok, as far as it can be, just a fuckin shame that this happened, theres some sick bastards in the world- if it was terrporists - which im thinking it was

Cheers you guys. I think I would have gone insane very quickly without you lot and my new best frend Drambuie.

Hopefully everyone else is managing to contact loved ones.

oh thats great news DA....

I'm still unable to contact 3 friends in London. But otherwise my own headcount of friends in lonond are all okay.

Some suggestion from the BBC that a suicide bomb may have been involved.

really, where do you work, thats fucking harsh!!

kostika , I hope you manage to contact your friends. My thoughts are with you.

Dude that is terrible

I guessed people would be stck without much Info that is why I am trying to update people via this blog

Friend jsut emailed me to make sure I'm okay and mentioned there has been a security alert at the Basingstoke train station. No worries though, my mother in law is going to come pick me up from work tonight so I don't have to take the train.

Thanks DA. Me and hubby are working on contacting them now. Just kinda hard when I don't have mobile numbers for them.

yeah. vodafone wont give us TV, so im checking here, which is better than the news. more real, withought that sounding shitty!

We've just been issued lock down instructions. All doors locked, no one goes in without an official id and we have been told that we are not to accept deliveries - even from known suppliers. I think that this is paranoia but given the trouble that we've been having in Edinburgh and being sandwiched between the financial sector and the Parliament I suppose our bosses are doing what they can to protect us.

same here, ID pases on show all the time, and were in newark, middle of nowhere! just a vodafone business office!!

I am going to be very busy when I get into work this afternoon

advise to parent. Schools to carry on as normal but keeping kids indoors. Arrangments will be made to get kids home and advise will be given to headteachers later.

Wow. mobloguk is getting a bit of a /.ing type thing.

charles clarke on TV speaking in parliment

Da, I'm getting mysql errors. Alfies 'trapped' picture is certainly getting the hits.

Me sending the trapped picture to Sky News didn't help

al queada have claimed first responsibility.... lets see how many more stake claim.

I noticed that there is conflict between Scotland Yard and Clark as to how many confirmed explosions there were

yea most news websites are saying 6 at the moment, IVT are reporting 7 and yet thier map of explosions has 8 on it...

I'm from Israel and I want
to tell you that I feel your pain
and understand it.

Be strong!

Roman.

FTSE 100 5,133.00 -96.60 -1.85%

stockmarket has crashed too!

slight exaggeration as its recovering very slightly now...

To whoever needs it:
British Transport Police have set up a telephone number for those concerned about a friend or relative. The telephone number is +44 (0) 20 8358 0101.

we are with
from israel

Site is getting hit heavy.

BBC site says 7 explosions.

From the Guardian;

Advice for people in and around London

The following advice has been issued by the emergency services to people in London today

· Stay where you are
· Don't travel into the city unless it an absolute emergency
· The Met continues to respond to 999 emergency calls but non-emergency calls will have a seriously delayed response
· Do not dial 999 if worried about relatives - call 020 8358 0101.
· If you have minor injuries, use other healthcare services: pharmacist, walk-in centres or ring NHS Direct on 0845 4647
· If you need hospital treatment, use a taxi or get a lift from a friend or family member
· Do not contact police unless you have a genuine emergency
· Travel into London will be affected over the next few days

Stock market fell by 180 points as news came in but has recovered. Although it has dropped it is now within the realms of normal trading :) No sense of financial panic

Another date corilation. Its been a year since the train bombings in madrid on March 11th last year. Not an exact date match but rather close..

Additional note. Have jsut heard from friend who works for London Transport and he's okay. That's a huge load off my mind.

Haven't been able to get past SQL errors till now. Hope everyone is OK.

I was in the thick of it outside Kings Cross... police were shouting at us to take the nearest side street off of Euston road. Luckily I ignored them... they were sending us towards Russell Square.

Friend who works in Canary Wharf reports that a terroist has been shot there... it's not been officially reported and is word of mouth so may not be completely true. But then officially we were told that it was just power surges... hmmm.

Glad to hear it Kostika. Is that everyone you were waiting to hear from?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4660391.stm

I heard on the news that there was an 'incident' at canary wharf. No-one new much about it though.

From all us Israelis - we are with you at these tough times.
Be strong, and be safe.

Lior

p.s. Lots of Israelis came/will come here because of link from Israeli site, if you were wondering.

Can you provide the link to the site, Lior?

Might be useful to people - apparently (Sky News) the river boat services along the thames are free to use (and free of charge) if people need to get around.

Hi Daz,

the site is in Hebrew so I doubt it will help you. There was an article about the alternative to the main news sites, in the form of bloggers "reporting live", very interesting. Many translated quotes from the moblog blogs.
Article is in http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3109478,00.html
/> but again, it's in hebrew (you can see the "trapped" picture in there).
English version of site is http://www.ynetnews.com but this article doesn't appear there.
Are you all ok? How are people handling this...?

Thans DA. Just one more but I'll know if he is okay by tonight.

Thanks Lior!

everybody in london take care
we are with you
bluetulip from israel

mundane your moblog's titled - maybe time to rename it...

latest news

four explosions causing damage at seven sites. If you think about it that seems a reasonable assessment. If the bombs go off between stations the blast will be funnelled down the tunnels to affect two stations. Three underground blasts = six stations + bus outside BMA looking on the underground map you can see this probably what happened. However, I'm now left with the thought if this was four bombs how much worse would it have been if there had actually been seven. IIRC there were four blasts in Madrid (I'd need to look that up) and there were four planes on 9/11, now there are four here. I'm wondering what is the significance of four. The al qaeda statement makes me want to start a site like the sorry world one with people showing they are not "burning with fear, terror and panic". The only trouble is that there are those who would miss the point and think it was anti-islam. What is the world coming to? *sighs*

There were ten explosions in Madrid, from thirteen devices according to Wikipedia.

"There were ten explosions in Madrid, from thirteen devices according to Wikipedia"

On FOUR trains according to the BBC

Apparenty one of the bombs affected 3 trains - it blasted through the wall of the tunnel, hitting another train.

BBC site is currently saying:

"At least 33 people have been killed and hundreds injured after at least seven blasts on the underground network and a double-decker bus in London."

Truly horrific. I hope all of our moblogging family is safe and sound. Nevertheless, I know something like this has significant ripple effects through more than a few degrees of separation...

So, everyone take care; our thoughts are with you.

www.werenotafraid.com is now registered, who has the time/stamina to donate to building/managing it?let me know via alfied at gmail dot com

You're on Alfie

ok cool :) looking forward to your mail mate.

twas a great name for it sunnidae, thanks, dude, rathgild - nothing in the mail from you as yet.

edit - got em, cheers./

Kostika: you were asking for a date correlation. I don't think it's a date correlation per se, but I am seeing a pattern in the numbers themselves. (I could send this to Cassiudrow and he could crunch this even more-- finding these patterns is very much his thing.)

Terrorists seem to like prime numbers and numbers divisible by 3, which is the magic number in many cultures that allow for mysticism.

Im just up from a nap (I had been on my way to bed when this started and never got there) Has anyone heard from Adamtime?

Elf: Adamtime has posted.

I found it. :D Thank you SO much. *relieved*

thay did it for the olimpic games
france alcaida

I hope you all are safe & OK! Been worried all day at work...

my family and i will never be afraid this is an act stupidity and slotter of ordinery working class poeple terrorism is a cowards way trying to seek attention