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"Therion Ware" |
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08 Jul 2005 06:01:12 AM |
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OT: London death toll reaches 50. |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4663931.stm
London bombs killed 'at least 50'
The final death toll for the London bombs will be at least 50, the
head of the Met Police says.
Sir Ian Blair said there were a number of bodies still in the Tube
train at Russell Square but that the final figure was unlikely to top
100.
Sir Ian said the police had an "implacable resolve" to track down
those responsible for the blasts.
The blasts on three Tubes and a bus left 700 hurt, with 100 held
overnight in hospital and 22 serious or critical.
A massive intelligence investigation is under way to find those
responsible, with Sir Ian saying it was "blindingly obvious" that a
terrorist cell was operating in Britain.
Anti-terrorist branch head Andy Hayman said each device had less than
10 lbs of high explosive in it and could be carried in a rucksack.
I saw three bodies on the track - I couldn't look, it was so horrific
Scott Wenbourne
In the Tube trains these devices were on the floor. In the bus, the
device may have been on the seat or the floor.
There has been much media speculation that the attack on a bus in
Woburn Place - that claimed at least two lives - had been the work of
a suicide bomber.
Sir Ian said there was "absolutely nothing to suggest this was a
suicide bomb".
"There is nothing to rule it out. It may have been that or it may have
been a bomb left on a seat."
The police commissioner said officers had considered the suspension of
London's mobile network, which is within their power, but had ruled it
out.
Royal visits
Home Secretary Charles Clarke said looking for potential bombers was
like searching for "needles in haystacks".
The Queen and Prince Charles are visiting casualties, while Tony Blair
prepares for the G8 summit's last day.
Transport operators ran a near-normal service on the Tube on most
lines, but there were fewer commuters than usual.
Of the 300 people admitted to hospital on Thursday, about 80 remain,
either convalescing after emergency surgery or too badly burned to
return home.
Mr Clarke said a claim on the website of a previously unknown group,
the Secret Organisation Group of al-Qaeda of Jihad Organisation in
Europe, saying it was behind the blast, was being taken seriously.
Scotland Yard have confirmed seven people died in the Liverpool Street
explosion and another seven were killed at Edgware Road. At least 21
lost their lives at the King's Cross blast.
But newspapers quoted an eyewitness who got off the bus moments before
the blast who saw an agitated man in his mid-20s fiddling with his
bag.
Richard Jones, 61, an IT consultant, told the Daily Mail: "This chap
started dipping down into his bag and getting back up. He did it about
a dozen times in two or three minutes and looked extremely agitated."
The nature of the other three bombings is still unclear.
Police have indicated there will be a more visible presence of
officers in the capital on Friday.
The home secretary said the failure to predict Thursday's bombs should
not obscure past successes.
But he admitted: "It certainly was a failure of intelligence in the
sense that we didn't know this was coming.
"But by definition when you're looking for needles in haystacks you
can miss the needles and the tragedy of yesterday is that we did miss
the needles."
Police have said they had no warning of any attacks, or intelligence
about any other imminent threats.
And the home secretary defended the recent downgrading of the
terrorism threat from severe general to substantial.
Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said Thursday's attacks bore all the
hallmarks of the al-Qaeda network.
Suspended lines
Anyone worried about relatives or friends they have not heard from is
advised to contact a special police hotline on 0870 156 6344 .
London was starting to return to normal on Friday, with much of the
transport system running as normal.
Blasts occurred:
Between Aldgate and Liverpool Street tube stations
Between King's Cross and Russell Square tube stations
At Edgware Road tube station
On bus at Tavistock Square
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/uk/4663931.stm
Published: 2005/07/08 10:49:53 GMT
© BBC MMV
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| User: "quibbler" |
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| Title: Re: OT: London death toll reaches 50. |
08 Jul 2005 10:23:35 AM |
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In article <o7nsc1tcjdfbq9jtaccld0dni7qchbq821@4ax.com>,
autodelete@city-of-dis.com says...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4663931.stm
London bombs killed 'at least 50'
If it was Rumsfeld doing the tallies he'd say that more than half of
those "didn't count" because they died later on in the hospitals.
That's what they do with american service men to hide the casualty
counts.
--
Quibbler (quibbler247atyahoo.com)
"It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the
threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, 'mad cow'
disease, and many others, but I think a case can be
made that faith is one of the world's great evils,
comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to
eradicate." -- Richard Dawkins
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