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salam, At 10:48 PM 7/7/05 +0700, you wrote: >> 45 dead, hundreds injured in London blasts >> >>July 8, 2005 - 12:01AM >> >>Key points >> >>- First explosion reported at 8.59am London time (17.59 AEST). >> >>- Explosions reported at Underground stations Edgware Road, King's >>Cross, Liverpool Street, Old Street, Russell Square, Aldgate East and >>Moorgate. >> >>- At least one London bus blown up in Russell Square, reports of two >>others in Marylebone and South Kensington. >> >>- London transport system shut down. >> >>- At least 12 dead, 300 injured. >> >>Blood-splattered and crying, thousands of people staggered into the >>streets of London in the morning peak hour today after at least four >>blasts rocked the heart of the city. >> >>The blasts killed at least 45 people and wounded about 1000, Sky News >>reported. >> >>Associated Press quoted an unnamed US law enforcement officer in >>Washington as saying at least 40 people died. >> >>British officials have yet to make public the death toll, but AP said US >>officials had learned of the number from their British counterparts. >> >>A shaken Prime Minister Tony Blair said it was a barbaric terror attack >>while security experts pointed the finger at al-Qaeda. >> >>Amid the chaos, British officials initially said at least two people >>were killed and as many as 300 injured. There was no confirmed official >>death toll. >> >>CNN Television said at least 10 people had been confirmed killed in an >>explosion at London's King's Cross station. It said one of its producers >>at the scene had been told of "double-digit fatalities''. >> >>Two people have been killed in an explosion at London's Aldgate East >>underground station, police said. A doctor at the station said at least >>90 people were wounded in the blast. >> >>Police said initial estimates suggested 150 people had been seriously >>wounded. Others were treated for minor injuries. >> >>The Royal London Hospital in the east of the capital said 95 people were >>being treated, seven of them in critical condition and 10 serious. It >>was not clear how many of them had been brought in from Aldgate. >> >>St Mary's Hospital in west London said 80 wounded had been brought in, >>four of them critical and nine serious. >> >>Officials said the casualties were believed to have come from a blast at >>Edgware Road underground station. >> >>Other hospitals said they had received wounded but declined to give numbers. >> >>Blair, Bush condemns attacks >> >>A stunned Prime Minister Tony Blair said the city had been hit by >>``barbaric'' terror attacks coinciding with a meeting of Group of Eight >>leaders in Scotland. >> >>US President George W Bush and other G8 leaders swung behind Blair who >>was forced to leave the Gleneagles meeting that he had been hosting. >> >>"The war on terror goes on,'' Bush said. >> >>Queen Elizabeth said she was ``deeply shocked''. >> >>An Arabic-language news website reported a group calling itself ``Secret >>Organisation - al-Qaeda in Europe'' has posted a claim of responsibility >>for the blasts on a website popular with Islamic militants, which it did >>not name. >> >>It said the group claimed the explosions were in retaliation for >>Britain's involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. It also warned of more >>attacks in other countries. >> >>Witnesses saw the top ripped off a double-decker bus near Russell Square >>close to King's Cross train terminal and the twisted wreckage of another >>in Tavistock Square nearby. >> >>Six underground subway stations also were hit, the BBC said after >>reporting that Arab sources were pointing the finger of blame at the >>al-Qaeda terror network. >> >>Police bomb squads and sniffer dogs patrolled other stations as >>ambulances took the wounded to hospitals on full security alert. >> >>The crisis erupted when emergency services rushed to the Aldgate East >>underground station where police reported the first blast incident at >>8.59am local time (1759 AEST). >> >>A doctor at Aldgate underground station in the east of the financial >>centre of the city said at least 90 people were wounded at that location >>alone. >> >>Indications of explosives at the scene >> >>London's police chief Ian Blair said there were indications of >>explosives at one of the blast sites. >> >>"We are aware that one of the sites certainly does contain indications >>of explosives,'' he told Sky Television. ``We are concerned that this is >>a co-ordinated attack.'' >> >>London has so far escaped the 2004 Madrid-style bombings blamed on >>al-Qaeda, and the blasts today left London residents in shock. >> >>People were seen streaming out of one underground station covered with >>blood and soot. Passengers were evacuated from stations across the >>capital, many in shock and with their clothes ripped to shreds, >>witnesses said. >> >>"We think there are about six explosions. There are many casualties,'' >>Ian Blair said. >> >>The city's streets were gridlocked and financial markets plummeted as it >>became increasingly apparent that the blasts were an attack, and not a >>power surge on the underground train system as had been reported. >> >>The exact cause of the incidents, which occurred one day after London >>was awarded the 2012 Olympics, was unknown. >> >>Police confirmed that two people were killed in an explosion at London's >>Aldgate East underground station. There were fears of more fatalities in >>the damaged buses. >> >>Security experts said the apparent attacks bore all the hallmarks of the >>al Qaeda network. >> >>"If what are looking at is a simultaneous bombing, and it does look like >>that, it would very certainly fit the classic al Qaeda methodology which >>centres precisely on that, multi-seated hits on transport and >>infrastructural targets,'' said Dr Shane Brighton, intelligence expert >>at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence. >> >>``There were people streaming out of Aldgate station covered in blood,'' >>said Kate Heywood, 27, on her way to work. >> >>``There are shards of glass there, it is chaos,'' she added. >> >>Train services shut down >> >>A Reuters correspondent at Oxford Circus station, at the heart of the >>underground system, heard an announcement over the public-address system >>saying:``A power outage has occurred London-wide. All train services are >>suspended.'' >> >>A station official said: ``All the power has gone down. I don't know >>when it'll come back.'' >> >>Police sealed off large areas around other underground and mainline rail >>stations. Firemen donned chemical protection suits before rushing into >>stations. >> >>Half a dozen people with soot-blackened faces and dishevelled clothes >>sat on the floor at Russell Square underground station or stood in shock >>as police cordoned off the area and ambulances crews raced in, one >>witness said. >> >>The Great Eastern Hotel, which was hosting a conference on the Israeli >>economy, was evacuated. >>Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cancelled plans to attend >>the conference. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] *************************************************************************** Berdikusi dg Santun & Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. 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