TERRORISM
London attack at Parsons Green station eyed as 'terrorist incident,' police say
A homemade bomb exploded at a
packed London subway station during Friday morning rush hour, injuring
at least 22 people. Police called it a "terrorist incident."
The attack on the District Line train at Parsons Green station was the fifth terrorist attack in Britain this year.
Scotland Yard said an improvised explosive device was used in the attack. London's Metropolitan Police counter-terrorism unit is investigating the terrorist incident. Police did not immediately provide any details on any suspects.
The ambulance service said at least one of the injuries was thought to be serious or life-threatening and most of the injuries were flash burns.
Passengers reported seeing people with burns to their faces and bodies after the "massive flash of flames" on the tube station.
Peter Crowley, a passenger, told the BBC: "I heard a large bang from the doors on the other side of the tube train and this fireball came towards my heard and singed off all my hair – I have got burn marks at the top of my head. Everyone just ran off the train, it was quite scary.”
Emergency services help a person after a fire at Parsons Green underground station in London, Britain.
(Reuters)
Photos taken inside a District Line train showed a white plastic bucket inside a supermarket shopping bag with flames and what appear to be wires visible.
Explosive experts told the Daily Mail that they were investigating the bucket and said if it exploded properly it could have killed dozens of people. The BBC reported that the homemade device contained a timer.
Police advised people to avoid the area.
A woman was injured after an explosion on a packed London Underground train.
(AP)
"My thoughts are with those injured at Parsons Green and emergency services who are responding bravely to this terrorist incident," British Prime Minister Theresa May tweeted.
Police said it was "too early to confirm the cause of the fire, which will be subject to the investigation that is now underway by the Met's Counter Terrorism Command."
The London Ambulance Service said it was called in at 8:20 a.m. local time and dispatched multiple resources to the scene, including a hazardous area response team.
“Our initial priority is to assess the level and nature of injuries,” a statement read.
A woman is escorted away after the fire at Parsons Green underground station in London.
(Reuters)
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London police have declined to comment on Trump's suggestion that it knew about the attacker.
Richard Aylmer-Hall, 53, who was on the train when the blast occurred, said he saw people injured after being trampled.
"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,” he said. “Some people got pushed over and trampled on, I saw two women being treated by ambulance crews.”
Hall said he didn't believe anyone was injured by the actual device.
"It was an absolutely packed, rush-hour District Line train from Wimbledon to Edgware Road. 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 told Sky News.
Emma Stevie, a passenger on the train during the fire, told the BBC she became mixed in a “human stampede.”
"I wedged myself in next to a railing, I put myself in the fetal position," she said.
"There was a pregnant woman underneath me, and I was trying really hard not to crush her.
Investigators search next to a train at Parsons Green station in London.
(Reuters)
"The injuries from the stampede seemed the worst. I'm outside now, there are women crying and people sitting on the floor."
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said people should "keep calm and go about their normal lives" following the incident, adding that it would be “wrong to speculate.”
The London Underground itself has been targeted several times in the past, notably in July 2005, when suicide bombers blew themselves up on three subway trains and a bus, killing 52 people and themselves. Four more bombers tried a similar attack two weeks later, but their devices failed to detonate fully.
Fox News' Allison Barrie and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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