LONDON TERRORIST ATTACK- PLEASE CHECK IN IF YOU LIVE/ WORK IN LONDON

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

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



Why would a power cut produce a loud bang?

explosion caused by power surge.

Make that explosionS!!

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

too much power going through the lines, too much energy, lines cant take that exrta power, overheating occurs with the build up of power.......bang...an explosion.the process starts again further down the line and another explosion occurs.

On the Radio it is saying there are a fair few casualties...... We have a lot of HoPpers in london and it would be nice to know they are all safe. If you are a londoner and safe and well please just put a hello up here so we know not to worry about you.

and the top of a bus got blown off how?!!?

Just heard it on sky news.

the pressure that had built up was so large.especially occuring underground there is limited space for this pressure to come out of. so when the explosion occurs the force is immense therefore blowing off the top of a bus.

What?!?!?!?!?!!??!


A double decker bus?


The national grid have said that there were no reasons or problems reported this morning to cause such a power cut.

This is scarey stuff.

I'm one of the few people to made it into work so far (near St Pauls) after all chaos.

We were all turfed off the tubes on the Central Line but we were told it was just related to a power failure. So it seemed a bit strange to hear all these sirens and police running down Cheapside towards Bank, and out the office widow I can see helicoptors now.

I hope there are no fatalities.

Is it just me or has the BBC news site gone. I can't seem to connect to it any more.... or is it just its got so much traffic my slow dial up isn't connecting?

think of an explosion occuring in open air.

think then of the same explosion coming out of a small space.

it would do that.

national grid....pfft

BBC site is being slow Skully

I can't get hold of any of my family in London to check that they're ok

they have just said that there was a bomb on a bus which is separate to the underground explosions

Have you got access to a tv?

"think then of the same explosion coming out of a small space."
and not causing hundreds of fatalities of people in the train station?
If you are talking about the explosion coming out of a train station that is. Otherwise there is no way that the top of a bus could be blown off if its just travelling down the road.

and its a bit coincidental that it happnes during rush hour.
Im not saying its a terrorist attack, and im not saying that its not.. but it does seem to point slightly that way

they say now there were explosive devices on a tube, tubes colliding and exploding power cables

may be terrorist related

Finally have 5 live streaming. The direct link for windows media player is: http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/live/live.asx

I got in ok this morning.

It's really quite scary....stations closed, expolsions, buses being blown up. What next?



Hope all you londoners are OK!

I'm not convinced about the 'power surge' story - after all how would this happen to coincide with a bus exploding at russel square.

Needless to say, I can't help wondering if this is a madrid style terrorist attack to coincide with G8

I'm just hoping that my absent collegues and workmates around the City are ok (and our London hoppers too, of course).

If it was a terrorist attack, and the bomb carriers wer supposed to take the bombs onto tubes or something, could the bus have been blown up by a terrorist who couldnt get on the underground and decided to take it on a bus?

It seems odd that terrorists decide to not directly attack people, but rather decided to attack the transportation?

Do you think that other terrorist organisations dwindled their support for Al Quaeda afterthey did something so stupid as taking out so many innocents after 9/11? or is that just a dumb idea?
Cos if this is a major terrorist attack, at least they arent going for human lives.

Reports now of THREE seperate explosions on busses

bammers, helz and i are all in work safe.

i got chucked off the central line at bethnal green and caught a bus in.

the busses were packed full - the top deck explosion story has made all this seem deliberate which is pretty scary.


cole. x

This maybe directly targetting the transport system because once transport is down in a city chaos insues.

5 live just said it looks like it *could be* a terrorist attack

I knew that as soon as it happened

I'm gonna have to ban all HoPpers from living in major cities and make them all come and live out in the sticks. We never get terrorist attacks here. The terrorists can't find us!

Its good to hear Hels, Bam, Cole, Mark and Jon are ok but what about everyone else?

Now explosions in several tubes and buses, I hope everyone is ok

I was about to go into London about halkf an hour before the bombs went off

i had the day off today i work in russel square

really? Sir_Sheep quit her job at russel square (gower street) a few months ago, we know the area well

The govrn have confirmed that 20 people are dead