19 INJURED FROM TERRORIST TRAIN STATION ATTACK IN LONDON
LONDON — Several people were injured at a London underground station on Friday after witnesses reported a blast on a packed rush-hour commuter train, Reuters reported. Police are treating what they originally called a "security situation" at the southwest station at Parsons Green as a terrorism incident.
"It is too early to confirm the cause of the fire, which will be subject to the investigation that is now underway by the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command," London police said in a statement.
Commissioner Neil Basu, the senior national coordinator for counter-terrorism policing, declared the blast a terrorist incident, the statement said.
Metropolitan Police
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3 HOURS AGO Counter Terrorism detectives are making fast-time inquiries to establish who was responsible for the incident at #ParsonsGreen tube station
Officials said that 19 people were taken to hospitals by ambulance, while four others presented themselves at hospitals, according to the London Ambulance Service and The Associated Press . None of the injuries were considered life-threatening, officials said.
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Natasha Wills, the ambulance service's assistant director of operations, said in a statement that a majority of the people injured suffered minor injuries.
"We arrived on scene in five minutes of the first (emergency) call and worked closely with our colleagues from the Metropolitan Police, British Transport Police and London Fire Brigade making sure patients received the medical help they needed as quickly as possible," Will said.
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· 2 HOURS AGO Following the incident at #ParsonsGreen this morning we have taken 19 patients, mostly with minor injuries to three London hospitals.
An unverified picture circulating on social media showed a white bucket with a supermarket freezer bag on the floor of one train carriage, Reuters reported. The bucket was in flames and there appeared to be wires coming out of the top.
A witness told Reuters that there were six ambulances, fire engines and a helicopter at the Parsons Green station. The Metro newspaper reported that passengers had suffered facial burns from a blast and others had been hurt in a subsequent stampede.
"I was on (the) second carriage from the back. I just heard a kind of whoosh. I looked up and saw the whole carriage engulfed in flames making its way towards me," Ola Fayankinnu, who was on the train, told Reuters. "A lot of people were trampled on. There were phones, hats, bags all over the place and when I looked back I saw a bag with flames. People were crying, shocked, a few people had been injured, some people had been trampled."
Outside the station, a woman was sitting on a pavement with a bandage around her leg while armed police patrolled, Reuters reported. A witness saw a woman being carried off on a stretcher with her legs covered in a foil blanket, according to the news wire service.
President Donald Trump denounced the attack on Twitter, calling it the work of "sick and demented people." He added that the terrorists "were in the sights of Scotland Yard," adding that "loser terrorists must be dealt with in a much tougher manner."
Donald J. Trump
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4 HOURS AGO Another attack in London by a loser terrorist.These are sick and demented people who were in the sights of Scotland Yard. Must be proactive!
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
4 HOURS AGO Loser terrorists must be dealt with in a much tougher manner.The internet is their main recruitment tool which we must cut off & use better!
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