# London Explosions

- Author: Joichi Ito
- Date: 2005-07-07T18:39:49Z


Anyone who is tuning in right now... about 2 hours ago a series of explosions were reported in London involving the Underground and a bus. The BBC reports "Large numbers of casualties have been reported after at least six explosions on the Underground network and a double-decker bus in London."

UPDATE: Most big media sites are slow or down. You can get to many of the blogs post via Technorati for queries such as "London explosions". Lots of pictures on the Flickr London Explosions Group / Flickr Bomb tag. Wikinews article. (Note: I think Wikinews has had the fastest and most substantive news so far. Good job folks.)

UPDATE 7/7/2005 10:50 UTC#joiito @ irc.freenode.netantoin -    there's someone on the irish radio says there were warnings about bomb scares as early as 7am.
JoiIto -     Can I quote that on my blog Antoin?
antoin -    sure. i should stress that it's a person who rang into the station, recounting 
antoin -    so it's a bit third-handWe're having a real-time global discussion on #joiito on Freenode if you want to join us.

UPDATE 7/7/2005 11:03 UTC: Blair says G8 will continue.

I notice that the Japanese news has just started picking this up. I just remembered that I was listening to a Japanese radio station just about when this was happening. They were reporting about how GW Bush ran into a policeman on his bike and fell over and was saved from injury by his red helmet. Doh.

UPDATE 7/7/2005 11:08 UTC:jbond -    heard on radio4. "sources who follow Al Qaida, are saying it's likely they were involved"

UPDATE 7/7/2005 11:32 UTC:[11:32] felix -    we are jammed in between aldgate station and whitechapel hospital it's a bit like a war zone
[11:32] felix -    RJ and mischa live right above aldgate station they are not allowed to leave the house
[11:33] felix -    seems like the carefully crafted emergnecy plan works smoothly
[11:35] felix -    like I said london is cool
[11:35] felix -    everybody is really calm.
[11:36] felix -     as the shut the whole public transport down
[11:37] felix -    it's kinda weird how everything is so business as usual
[11:38] felix -    I would have thought there would be more panic

UPDATE 7/7/2005 13:10 UTC: They have just closed the bathrooms on BART. (The California Bay Area Rapid Transit.)

UPDATE: Lots of good links on Boing Boing.

UPDATE: Roundup of Muslim bloggers responding to London Blast on Global Voice by Rebecca MacKinnon. Dedicated page on Technorati for posts about the London Bombings.

UPDATE: Loic blogs about John Gibson from Fox News saying that he wished it had happened in Paris. Ugh.

UPDATE: Julio points us to David Horovitz writing "And now as then, one suspects, the response of the targeted nation will be resilience and a determined response, rather than capitulation. London is not Madrid." in the Jerusalem Post.


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