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"LONDON EXPLODED!!!1"

EDIT: Just pointing out that this post was made long before it was confirmed as intentional explosions.

Well, it has according to Sky News, the news vulture network. Huge red banners and claxons fill your eyes and ears whenever you skip past that channel. From a more reliable source (BBC News), I see there have been power surges and small explosions, which naturally have affected services.

This quote made me chortle:

"As I walked through the bus station I could see people lying on the ground, black, as if they'd been covered in smoke."

Obviously an out-of-towner.

Enjoy your day off work millions of Londoners!

My sis phoned, was 30mins late for work otherwise would've been at Liverpool Street when it went off.
Phew, she's on her way home now.

Hope your dad's ok YH

Both my brother and dad were in london today. Just spoke to my sister in law who's heard from my brother - he's ok. He was in Liverpool St when it happened.

Yet to hear from my dad though....

20 confirmed dead at the moment 90 injured

It's not looking good, but the key thing is not to give in to panic reports or headless chicken scares.
Hope people are ok and casualties are minimal.

Mouldy Cheese wrote:
> Was surprised the link hadn't been made already - BBC havn't said
> anything about 'terrorism' thus far, which I think is very good and
> objective.

Sky News is my weapon of choice. It's like The Day Today, but somehow real. They've found 'Terrorism Experts' to interview already.

Well the buses and tube are pretty much our whole public transport system, it seems a bit to convenient that they both happened around the same time.

Reason i can't think of one, we haven’t invaded anywhere for over a year now and we are trying to be the good guys at the G8. People are thinking Olympics but that’s just stupid surely t won't be that.

I think it's one of those things where we'll have to wait and see. Emergency services are stretched already though, apparently, which isn't a good sign for when we get one of those huge catastrophies they prepared for.

Another report of an explosion near Hounsditch?

monkey_man wrote:
> Actually, yeah, this is looking pretty bad stuff.
>
> I am watching Sky News though - all they were trying to get out of
> this woman that was covered in smoke was how much blood she could
> see. And now they've said the buzz word: "9/11".

Was surprised the link hadn't been made already - BBC havn't said anything about 'terrorism' thus far, which I think is very good and objective.

I'm not really sure what to make of this.

The obvious question is who did it, and whether the tube power outage and the bus explosions are related.

I go to London quite often (will be in there about this time on Saturday), so I find it quite scary.