It was “You can never really expect it, but it’s less of a surprise this time.” Said Siva Rubakumar, a 32-year-old accountant standing near Saint Paul’s station, wondering how to begin his trek to a distant northern suburb.
What can you do?
You have to keep going on. You don’t want these people to change the way you live.” 4 Small Explosions Jolt London and Disrupt Transit.
LONDON, July 21 – Assailants list to data with explosives struck at
three subway trains and a doubledecker bus today, sending passenger
fleeing for safety in what may have been copycat attacks just two weeks
after the London terror bombings claimed 56 lives.
The blasts, much smaller than on July 7
Were “pretty close to simultaneous,” said Sir Ian Blair, the Scotland Yard commander, and “some of them may not have gone off properly,” suggesting that London had narrowly
averted the carnage of the earlier bombings.
“I don’t known how narrow must labor shortages and workforce development have been to kill,” said Sir Ian, who said there was apparently only
one casualty. “The intention of the terrorists has not been fulfilled.”
The attacks spread chaos and confusion as parts of the London subway
and road system came to a halt. Three subway stations were evacuated,
and a No. 26 bus ground to a stop in Bethnal Green, in east London.
By early evening there was no indication of who was responsible
“In each of these scenes attempts have been made to set off explosives,” Sir
Ian said. But, he said, events were “incredibly fast-moving” and he declined to
answer reporters’ questions relating directly sale leads to the inquiry so far.
Sir Ian did say the police “may have recovered forensic material. It may be
important to our investigation.” In rapid-fire sequence, the city re-lived the early moments of the first attacks on July 7, with police cordoning areas, sirens wailing and passengers pouring out of subway stations.