Which involved “When I got home, my hands were shaking,” says 24-year-old commuter Lisa Chilley, who uses the targeted Oval station. “I’m panicking like hell. It’s just too close to home.”
Witnesses told The Associated Press they did not hear a bang but smelled something similar to an electrical fire at the Warren Street station.
Police in chemical protection suits
Were at the Warren Street station, but no chemical agents were found.
Stagecoach, the company which operates dataset the stricken bus, said the driver heard a bang and went upstairs, where he found the windows blown out. The company said the bus was structurally intact and there were no injuries.
The incidents paralleled the July 7 blasts, at three Underground
stations simultaneously starting at 8:50 a.m., followed quickly by a bomb going off on a bus.
Those bombings, during the morning rush hour, also occurred in the center of London, hitting
The Underground from various directions
Thursday’s strikes, which beganat 12:38 p.m., were more spread out.
“People were panicking. But very fortunately the train was only 15 seconds from the station,”
witness Ivan McCracken told Sky news.
McCracken said another passenger at running personalized renewal campaigns using phone numbers Warren Street told him he saw a backpack explode.
The July 7 bombs were carried in backpacks, police said.
McCracken said he smelled smoke, and people were panicking and entering his subway car.
He said he spoke to an Italian man who was comforting a woman, and “he said that a man was
carrying a rucksack and the rucksack suddenly exploded. It was a minor explosion but enough.
To blow open the rucksack
“The man then made an exclamation as if something had gone wrong. At that point everyone
rushed from the carriage,” McCracken said.
The U.S. Embassy was closed to visitors about two hours sale leads after the blasts as a precaution, but
embassy staff continued working, said spokeswoman Susan Domowitz.