Police: Explosion on London Underground A Terror Attack

Rasa - An explosion occurred shortly before 8.20 a.m. local time this morning on the London Underground at Parsons Green tube station.

News ID: 432435

Date: 15 September 2017 - 18:26

RNA - A device exploded on a London Underground train this morning, injuring several people in what people are describing as the latest terror attack to hit London, Business Insider reported.

Posts on Twitter said that a "bag exploded" at Parsons Green, a station on the District Line in West London. Emergency services began receiving calls around 8:20 a.m.

The exact number and nature of the injuries people sustained has yet to be confirmed. A witness told LBC, a London radio station, that they saw around 20 injured people.

Several photographs and a video clip show a white bucket inside a Lidl bag with burning material inside on the floor of a Tube carriage. One image showed a tangle of wires protruding from the back of it.

Witnesses described a "fireball" emanating from the device, prompting a rush of people leaving the train and the platform. Some spoke of a "stampede" following the initial incident.

A man who was on the train told the Reuters news agency, "I was on second carriage from the back. I just heard a kind of whoosh. I looked up and saw the whole carriage engulfed in flames making its way towards me."

The British Transport Police said they were on the scene, and had closed the station, but offered little information about what had happened.

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