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#1 CNJRoss

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Posted 15 September 2017 - 06:09 AM

AP 9/15/17:
 

Fire on London train at morning rush treated as terrorism

 

 

LONDON (AP) -- A bucket wrapped in an insulated bag caught fire on a packed London subway train Friday, sending commuters stampeding in panic at the height of the morning rush hour. Police said they were investigating it as a terrorist attack.

 

Photos taken inside a District Line train show a white plastic bucket inside a foil-lined shopping bag. Flames and what appear to be wires emerge from the top. London ambulance service said they had sent multiple crews to the Parsons Green station and 18 people were hospitalized, though none had life-threatening injuries. Police advised people to avoid the area in southwest London.

 

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London's Metropolitan Police said counterterrorism investigators were at the Parsons Green station but it was "too early to confirm the cause of the fire, which will be subject to the investigation that is now underway by the Met's Counter Terrorism Command."

 

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#2 CNJRoss

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Posted 15 September 2017 - 06:22 AM

BBC news, 9/15/17:

Parsons Green: London Underground blast is terror incident

 

 

An "improvised explosive device" was detonated on a Tube train in south-west London during Friday's rush hour, Scotland Yard has confirmed.

 

Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said hundreds of detectives, working with MI5, are investigating the blast at 08:20 BST at Parsons Green station.

 

Eighteen people have been taken to hospital mostly with burn injuries.

 

The blast, on an eastbound District Line train from Wimbledon, is being treated as terrorism, police said.

 

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                     One commuter took a picture of the device, which appeared to have wires protruding from a white canister

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#3 CNJRoss

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Posted 15 September 2017 - 06:30 AM

The New York Times,​ 9/15/17:
 

Explosion on London Underground at Parsons Green Is Being Treated as ‘Terrorist Incident’

 

 

LONDON — Britain was hit by another terrorist attack on Friday morning, when a crude device exploded on a crowded London Underground train, injuring commuters, sowing panic, disrupting service and drawing a heavy response from armed police officers and emergency workers.

 

The explosion occurred at 8:20 a.m. on a District Line train as it left the Parsons Green station in Southwest London.

 

“This was a detonation of an improvised explosive device,” Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley, a top counterterrorism official, said at a news conference. He urged anyone who saw what had happened, or had taken photos or videos of the bombing, to come forward.

 

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“The train was packed, and I was down the other side of the carriage standing up, looking at my phone and then I heard a big boom and felt this heat on my face,” said Natalie Belford, 42, a hairdresser and beautician who was on the train. “I ran for my life, but there was no way out. The doors were full of people and the carriage was too packed to move down.”

 

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Posted 15 September 2017 - 03:02 PM

​The Washington Post,​ 9/15/17:

‘I heard a scream and then there was smoke’: Explosion hits London subway, injuring at least 22

 

 

LONDON — A homemade bomb sent a scorching cloud of smoke and flames through a London subway car Friday, injuring at least 22 rush-hour commuters and sending people scrambling for safety in what police called a terrorist incident.

 

There was no immediate claim of responsibility, and authorities gave no details on possible suspects. But the incident was quickly labeled a terrorist strike, and security measures were tightened across London’s vast mass transit network.

 

The British Broadcasting Corp. reported that the device had a timer, suggesting that some degree of bombmaking knowledge was used in creating it.

 

“This was a device intended to cause significant harm,” said Prime Minister Theresa May,  .  .  .

 

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Posted 16 September 2017 - 05:10 PM

The Washington Post,​ 9/16/17:

British police arrest 18-year-old man in connection with London subway attack

 

 

LONDON — Following a fast-moving investigation and manhunt, British police on Saturday arrested an 18-year-old man in connection with an attack the previous day on the London subway, in which at least 30 people were injured and authorities labeled as terrorism. 

 

Authorities said the man was arrested by Kent police in the port area of Dover on the English Channel. Police suspect he might have been seeking a boat out of England.

 

In addition, armed police raided and searched a house in Sunbury, west of London, on Saturday afternoon. Counterterrorism units were at the scene and police told reporters the operation was connected to the subway explosion.

 

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#6 CNJRoss

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Posted 17 September 2017 - 10:57 AM

AP 9/17/17:
 

UK lowers official terrorist threat level after 2nd arrest

 

 

LONDON (AP) -- The British government lowered the country's official terrorist threat level Sunday after a second man was arrested in connection with the attack on a London subway train where a bomb partially exploded.

 

The downgrading of the threat level from "critical" to "severe" means authorities no longer believe an attack is imminent. The "severe" classification, the second highest level of alert, is based on the assessment that an attack is "highly likely."

 

Home Secretary Amber Rudd said the easing of the alert indicates that police and security services are making "good progress" in the sprawling investigation into the attack on a subway train that injured 30 people during the rush hour Friday morning.

 

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Posted 20 September 2017 - 09:52 AM

Reuters, 9/20/17:

 

 


 

UK police arrest three in Wales over London train bomb attack

 

British police arrested three men in south Wales over last week’s bombing of a busy commuter train in west London, meaning five people are now being questioned by detectives over the attack which injured 30 people.

 

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#8 CNJRoss

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Posted 01 October 2017 - 07:40 PM

Reuters 9/25/17:
 

British police arrest seventh man over bomb attack on London train

 

 

LONDON (Reuters) - British police made a new arrest on Monday in their investigation into a bomb attack on a London underground train earlier this month.

 

The man, 20, was detained at a house in the Welsh capital Cardiff by counter-terrorism officers, London police said. He is the seventh man to have been arrested over the attack at Parsons Green station in London on Sept. 15 which injured 30 people.

 

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