London Subway Train Fire Being Treated as Act of Terrorism

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A rush-hour fire on a London subway is being treated by police as an act of terrorism.

Authorities reported more than a dozen injured in the Parsons Green Tube station in southwest London.

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None of the injuries were life-threatening, local media reported.

From NBC News:

Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, the senior national coordinator for counterterrorism policing, said the blaze was being treated as a “terrorist incident.” Investigators were examining the remains of an improvised explosive device.

One photo shared on social media showed a bucket on fire. Wires appeared to be protruding from the supermarket plastic bag the container had been carried in. The photos do not appear to show extensive damage to the inside of the train.

The Twitter user who posted the image — @rrigs — said he believed the bucket was linked to the incident. He added that an “explosion” occurred and a “fireball flew down carriage and we just jumped out open door.”

Luke Walmsley, 33, who was six train cars up from the fire described “complete pandemonium, complete terror” aboard the train.

“We heard the first scream and we saw a flash and smoke and people started running immediately,” he told NBC News. “Everyone was doing the 100-meter sprint at the same time. The girl I was sat next to fell to the floor, she got trampled on and flattened. There were lots of kids and lots of nannies and moms trying to work out where their kids were.”

Walmsley said that several people suffered “severe brown burns” to their heads. “It was a really acrid burning smell that came up the carriage,” he added.

Pennec told The Guardian that he “heard a boom and when I looked there were flames all around” just before the train pulled into Parsons Green station, which is located above ground on the District line.

London’s Metropolitan Police ordered commuters and residents to avoid the area. A cordon was set up around 500 yards from the station.

 

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Tilt
Tilt
6 years ago

Love, Peace & Harmony…

Islam and multi culti “progressives”, are the mortal enemies of the free world / the “West”

True Justice would be served, if all victims of Islamic terror, were multi culti “progressives”…

Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago
Reply to  Tilt

Muslims are united in their goal of occupation , domination , terrorising and subjugation and practice Islamic Art Of Occupation & Ethnic Cleansing Without Killing http://bit.ly/2y1iju8

while infidels are clueless and disunited. Unite,fund, support, inform, Organise and resist . Or you’ll end up in a Islamic hellhole.

Nabi Rasch
Nabi Rasch
6 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

I’ll be right behind you.

Trump can't ban islam
Trump can't ban islam
6 years ago
Reply to  Tilt

terror attacks are part and parcel of living in big cities. it has nothing to do with islam. right now Trump is allowing thousands and thousands of muslim refugees to enter USA.
In 2010 muslims were 0,9% of US population
In 2017 muslims are 2,6% of US population and growing!
Islam belongs in usa now. the hand of mohammad is strong

Nabi Rasch
Nabi Rasch
6 years ago

Doesn’t sound very smart or much like fun and mo died a long time ago though we’re still stuck with the smell.

WhistlingPast
WhistlingPast
6 years ago

More Muslims, anyone?

Trump can't ban islam
Trump can't ban islam
6 years ago
Reply to  WhistlingPast

trump brings 100,000 ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND of muslims refugees every year to USA

Jerry Dobson
Jerry Dobson
6 years ago

I see England continues to enjoy its cultural enrichment.

Jerry Dobson
Jerry Dobson
6 years ago
Reply to  Jerry Dobson

LOL

AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
6 years ago


Get Bloody use to it !!!!

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AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
6 years ago

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Kuffar
Kuffar
6 years ago

SOOOO sick and tired of the Brits. The Brits let the muzzies rape their children and wives, turn neighborhoods into no/go zones where white people get attacked, soldiers get their heads chopped off in the middle of the street, their buses and subways are blown up on a regular basis and still they will do NOTHING. So afraid of being called a racist. Brits are nothing more than neutered kuks. They get what they ask for. The longer they lay on their backs the more the muzzie scum kick them in the face.

Nabi Rasch
Nabi Rasch
6 years ago
Reply to  Kuffar

Not ‘their finest hour’ you say?

Liatris Spicata
Liatris Spicata
6 years ago

Quite right, no big deal, just part and parcel of living in a big city, which has its inconveniences. Bomb didn’t really explode anyway. Probably just some lone psychopathic Lutheran with family issues. Move along, nothing to see there.

Nabi Rasch
Nabi Rasch
6 years ago

Sweet, though, that, while still not ready to point even a wobbly finger at Islam, May found the time to take a dump on Trump.

Nabi Rasch
Nabi Rasch
6 years ago

They might mention the Islamaphobia.

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