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Welcome to bbc news. An explosion on an underground train in south west london this morning is being treated as a terrorist attack. The train was packed with rush hour commuters when the blast went off. It sent a fireball through the carriage. 22 passengers were injured, none of them seriously. The device appears to have been in a white container with a timer. The mayor of london says a manhunt for the attacker is now underway. The device detonated at 820 this morning at Parsons Green station on the District Line in south west london. My colleague Matthew Price is there. Thank you very much indeed. The section of the London Tube Network on which this explosion took place is actually overground, not underground like much of the network. It is a couple of hundred metres behind me, down this road where, at the moment, police and forensic officers are going through the scene of the explosion to try and piece together what happened and what sort of device this was. We have already had some
An explosion on an underground train in south west london this morning is being treated as a terrorist attack. The train was packed with rush hour commuters when the blast went off. It sent a fireball through the carriage. 22 passengers were injured, none of them seriously. The device appears to have been in a white container with a timer. The Prime Minister said the Terror Threat level would be kept under review. The device detonated at 820 this morning at Parsons Green station on the District Line in south west london. Matthew price is there. This was the fifth terrorist attack, the fifth successful terrorist attack in britain this year. Unlike the others, however, nobody died in this. In the previous poor attacks 36 people lost their lives, yet it is not being taken any less seriously because of that. As you have just heard, the seriously because of that. As you havejust heard, the Prime Minister of britain has caused called an emergency session of the Cobra Committee that looks int
Scrape what is a relatively small station at the peak of the london rush hour. Despite the fact there we re rush hour. Despite the fact there were no deaths, the political establishment here in downing street are not taking this attack any less seriously than others. There was an emergency meeting of the Cobra Committee called earlier today. The Prime Ministers statement, we will bring you that shortly, but first lets hear from my bring you that shortly, but first lets hearfrom my colleague bring you that shortly, but first lets hear from my colleague tom symons, who rounds up what happened here, and what the people who were on the train experienced. 8 20am this morning and a commuter captures this on camera through the window of a tube train. That bag is on fire. It is still alight, the remains of a makeshift bomb left amongst the passengers. Lets move away and get right down the platform. Seconds before, a flash of flame caused panic and serious burns. I heard a large bang from the d