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Latest report I'm seeing is 33 dead, but that's expected to rise. As many as a thousand injuries. People are being advised to not call emergency lines except in extremely serious situations, and to not go to the hospital if it can be avoided. Scotland Yard says they've been planning it for months, though no one can confirm that the "group" (no one's ever heard of the branch before) claiming credit is actually responsible. They're not sure how the bombs were set off; in Madrid it was cell phones but they don't work in the underground. Several witnesses reported a bomb going off just as another train passed theirs, which makes timers seem less likely. Not suicide bombs, apparently; the bombs (with lots of nails) were left to go off.

EDIT: 37 dead.

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OMG im so sorry:#(

i hope everyone reports back

Here's what AOL thinks of the bombings...



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I'm seeing BBC WORLD News........



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Ok, latest is as follows:

[1] Six explosions reported, still no major update on acsualty figures, but lots of harrowing pictures of 'walking wounded' milling around Tube stations including one woman whose entire head was swathed in dressings.

[2] Some mobile phone networks have reduced bandwidth available to regular consumers in order to increase bandwidth for emergency services use. Vodafone is cited as particularly heavily compromised in this regard. However, T-Mobile is still operating almost normally, I was able to check on a friend in London and hear him relay that he's alive, well but a bit shaken. According to him, it's "mayhem" at the moment.

[3] A number of people have started posing Livejournal entries. Including offers to contact relatives abroad from people who have SMS and net access working outside the Capital. London Livejournal is here

[4] On another Board I susbscribe to, thus far all London members accounted for, alive and well.

[5] Classic FM radio broadcast 13:15 - entire Tube network suspended, people advised to travel "only if absolutely necessary".

[6] BBC news website and others increasingly carrying reports that an Islamic extremist group connected to Al-Qaeda is claiming responsibility.

Anyone here with relatives in the area, your best bet at the moment is E-Mail, as that appears to be functioning normally. Be prepared for some delays in turnaround though as they struggle to get home in the chaos if they're in work.


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Sorry to hear all of that, it is just so sad.

Keep us posted,

Ingo in NYC

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Cali if you hear anything more on the news,please tell us..

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Latest report as of 12:45 here in the UK: large number of passengers trapped in underground train near King's Cross tube station. Injuries/fatailities aboard train unknown at this stage. Emergency services pulling out all the stops to reach the train and rescue the passengers. Additionally, a London bus was blown to pieces in one of the blasts - roof torn completely off the vehicle, fatalities from that blast yet uncounted.


Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002

i know its all over the news!

What.....Thats terrible..i open the link but its not working.I have to check out the news.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050707/ap_on_re_eu/britain_explosion

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Latest from Sky News

Reports indicate 2 dead, 90 injured, but death toll may be rising. Updating as I listen to the radio ...

Any Board members living in London, get in here NOW and let us know you're alive and well. Even if the net connections are jammed, give it your best shot.

Fingers crossed for you all ...




Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002

@ aol.....

or maybe

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Yeah, I saw this on the news last night just after it happened. The death toll is getting higher and higher, but it seems a lot of people were lucky - certainly there could have been more deaths considering the severity of the event.

I don't know anyone personally who is in London at the moment, but I have been thinking about FP members. Hope you and your families are all okay .



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Everyone is saying that it's the french, because they have lost the olympics 3 times in a row!! Surely that's bulltwang?? Was it al quida??

Best wishes to all our English Members!! And congrats on the olympics!

The latest eems to be that its been claimed by "the secret organisation of al quada" or something along those lines.

*sigh*

its not going to get better from here on in. The more they push, the more it is going to drive the rest of the world to some atrocity that will be frowned upon in the history books. Its beginning to seem inevitable.

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett

The quip about the French was a piece of humour from someone who'd just been pulled out of a bombed train. When the paramedics reached him and got him out, he said to them "I know the French are ticked off because they lost the Olympics, but this is a bit much isn't it?"

Plus, there's been the usual round of TV interviews with old people saying "Oh, it was much worse than this during the Blitz ... want a cup of tea?"

One of the reasons I love this country. Just been bombed? Put the kettle on. Tidal wave? Put the kettle on. Earthquake? Volcano just appeared in the middle of Birmingham? Alien invaders? Put the kettle on, it'll all seem better after a decent cup of tea


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The British humor is the best in the world.


Soooooo Dark


Ingo

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:#( talk about some news I didn't enjoy hearing yesterday:#(

I hope everyone is safe, been watching the news and it's awful to see everyone trying to find friends, family, and other assorted love ones...and it definately pulls on my heart...I'll keep ya'll in my thoughts and prayers...

Let's see we have London Bombing, and Hurricane Dennis, then back again...oh for a change, we have HPD everywhereWhy do people have to go and act this way? I thought we were supposed to act like adults here...this is just bull, even a certain 5 year old doesn't act this way, when she doesn't get her way]:|

[/rant]sorry for the lack of warning

"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle

Tiny clanger still needs to report in !

Thanks for thinking of me, I was in Paris on holiday with my parents. One bomb was close to my dad's work, at the tube station he would have been using had he not been on holiday.

Unfortunately, these things happen. Nowt to do but go back to work and get on with life. As it was, it was not as bad as it could have been, and it's not the first time for London, or anywhere in the UK for that matter. For everyone who wasnt directly affected, the only thing to do is to move on, it's not the first time this has happened to us, it wont be the last.

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I like to think that whoever designed marine life was thinking of it as basically an entertainment medium. That would explain some of the things down there, some of the unearthly biological contraptions

Eepp..

I've been on vacation but was thinking about FP members too, glad to hear everyone is mostly safe and sound, just a bit shaken.

*hugs*


-Ferret

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As many know at this point, London has again been bombed at lunch time there. [link=Blasts hit London, 2 weeks after bombing--yahoo news]http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=1&u=/nm/20050721/ts_nm/security_britain_train_dc" style="COLOR: #FF1493[/link]

As I've been watching and reading noone was seriously hurt, so this is a blessing...

Again I must ask, why are people doing this? We are all human, we may not agree in a lot of things, but please why must some people think it is necessary to kill others because they don't believe as you do

So I guess we are back into high alert, some places higher than others I know...everyone take care, and be careful...hml

"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle

Yeah i heard it on the news..it's terrible..
Thats good nobody got killed this time...but iam affraid it will not be the last bombing in London or anywhere else..
Norway has got some threats too..so we are on high alert as well.

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Boy did I cut it close. The first attack was 3 days after I left London, and the second was a day before I arrived again.

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i think the london police have overstepped their bounds by killing that innocent man the other day ]:| especially shooting him FIVE TIMES?? IN THE HEAD??? AFTER THEY HAD WRESTLED HIM TO THE FLOOR???? ]:|]:|]:|]:|]:| i realize they thought they were chasing a terrorist suspect, but is it necessary to use such excessive force after a few of them had him on the ground? ]:|]:|]:|

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Janna let me be the overprotective mother hen and say, "Get your bottom home, young lady! We don't need something to happen to you" sorry the mother hen comes out every so often and ya'll know I worry a bit too much about some of you kiddos, and well some adults alike

And Moondog, I agree, unless they were in danger themselves there was no need to shoot him 5 times...if it was necessary to shoot him, once in my opinion would have been enough, unless of course they felt they were in danger themselves and then things do tend to change won't go into the story about the guy i dragged around backwards till I could get County to help me out

That said I hope some of this comes to an end I'm tired of hearing of the bombings and shootings and such...hml

"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle

Not that I approve of the killing of an innocent man at all, my first response to hearing that (even before it was known he was innocent) was "poor chap, he probably rushed to get the train". We all do that around here.

However, some common sense by us Londoners is also needed. When getting on a train everyone is looking around to see if there are any suspects and you know that everyone is nervours, so running from the police a day after 4 other bombs didn't explode is a stupid idea.

As for the 5 shots to the head, it is sadly a known procedure. Aiming at other body parts might trigger the bomb (if there is one, that is) to explode.

To Janna, welcome back to London. I think you will find it's changed a bit since your last visit. Please don't rush to the train, there's always the next one (in theory, at least).

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