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Parsons Green attack: Police raid in west London as 18-year-old man arrested in Dover – latest news
Detectives investigating the terrorist attack at Parsons Green have made a “significant” arrest in connection with the attempted bombing.
The 18-year-old man was arrested by Kent Police in the port area of Dover on Saturday morning under section 41 of the Terrorism Act.
He remains in custody at a local police station from where he will be transferred to a south London police station.
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, Senior National Co-ordinator for Counter Terrorism Policing, said: “We have made a significant arrest in our investigation this morning. Although we are pleased with the progress made, this investigation continues and the threat level remains at critical.
“The public should remain vigilant as our staff, officers and partners continue to work through this complex investigation. We are not, at this time, changing our protective security measures and the steps taken to free up extra armed officers remain in place.
“This arrest will lead to more activity from our officers. For strong investigative reasons we will not give any more details on the man we arrested at this stage.”
The development came after Prime Minister ordered troops onto the streets on Friday night after a suspected Islamist placed a powerful time bomb on a packed rush hour train heading towards Westminster.
Theresa May took the decision after the independent Joint Terrorism Assessment Centre (JTAC) recommended raising the terror threat to its highest level, Critical, meaning another attack is expected.
The army will deploy troops at key locations around the capital in order to free up police who were last night involved in a huge manhunt to catch the terrorist responsible for the failed Parsons Green bomb attack, which Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed responsibility.
At least 29 people were injured, including a boy believed to be aged about 10 when an improvised explosive device (IED) went off on a packed rush hour tube at Parsons Green in west London yesterday morning.
Witnesses described scenes of terror and panic after the blast sent a “fireball” and a “wall of flame” through a District line service in west London.
But the main device, which had been fitted with a crude timer using shop-bought fairy lights, failed to detonate, meaning hundreds of people were spared death and serious injury.
Anti-terror police are understood to be working on the theory that the bomb was detonated early by accident and that the intended target may have been the Tube station at Westminster.
Detectives have so far spoken to 45 witnesses and continue to receive information from the public to the confidential anti-terrorist hotline.
The public has sent 77 images and videos to investigators via the UK Police Image Appeal website.
Detectives from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command are continuing to urge anyone with information about the terrorist attack to contact police.
The attack – the fifth terrorist attack on the UK in just six months – caused a diplomatic row between Washington and London.
Donald Trump seemed to accuse the Metropolitan Police of knowing the identity of the attacker in advance but failing to prevent the bombing. Mr Trump posted on Twitter: “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!”
His claim earned the US President a stiff rebuke from Theresa May. “I never think it’s helpful for anybody to speculate on what is an ongoing investigation,” said the prime minister. “The police and security services are working to discover the full circumstances of this cowardly attack and to identify all those responsible.”
Despite Mr Trump’s suggestion that the terrorist was known to police, counter-terrorism sources insisted that was not the case and that the hunt for the perpetrator of the bombing on a District Line train was ongoing.
Counter terrorism specialists from Scotland Yard were last night working to establish his identity from CCTV footage on the train and at stations on the line. They were also combing through records of payments with Oyster cards used to buy Tube tickets.
One theory is the suspected bomber may have fled the scene among the stampede of panicking passengers and escaped among the crowds.
They were also uncertain that Parsons Green was not the planned target, pointing to reports that the bomb, which was packed with shrapnel and contained a timing device, had apparently malfunctioned.
Witnesses reported seeing people “covered in blood” after a “flash and a bang” from the device, but sent a “fireball” through the packed Tube train.
Pictures and video posted on social media showed a flaming bucket – which appeared to have wires coming from it – inside a Lidl carrier bag on the floor of a carriage.
The device is not believed to have fully detonated and it is reported that it could have been set off on a timer.
More follows – stay with us for the latest updates through the day
Residents evacuated at Sunbury address
The Met Police said police officers had evacuated and were searching a residential address in Sunbury-on-Thames.
Scotland Yard said: “The evacuation is a precautionary measure following the arrest of a man in Dover, Kent, at approximately 07:50hrs this morning in connection with the investigation into the terrorist attack at Parsons Green Underground Station on Friday, 16 September.
Officers began evacuating the address at approximately 13:40hrs today.
Residents in the buildings immediately surrounding the address are also being evacuated as a precautionary measure.
Cordons are being put in place at a 100 metre radius to facilitate the Metropolitan Police Service’s operation, which is being supported by colleagues from Surrey Police.
A search of the address is ongoing and the cordons will remain in place until the operation is complete.
Police would like to thank the local residents directly affected for their cooperation and patience. Local officers are on duty in the immediate area to talk to the community and address any concerns that they may have.
No further arrests have been made.”
Police cordon set up after officers raid house in Sunbury-on-Thames
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Armed police raid west London address
Police investigating the Parsons Green bombing carried out a raid on an address in Sunbury-on-Thames, close to the start of the M3 in west London, on Saturday afternoon.
Residents described a house in Cavendish Road being evacuated by armed officers. Others reported bomb squad vehicles arriving as armed officers moved in.
Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick says London “will not stop”
London will not be stopped by terror, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick has said as she highlighted an increased visible police presence on the capital’s streets.
Ms Dick spoke as she joined officers on some of the city’s busiest streets, travelling on the Tube to Waterloo Station and patrolling the tourist hot spot of the South Bank
She said: “London has not stopped after other terrible attacks and it will not stop after this one.”
The Commissioner said the public should feel “utterly reassured” by the presence of police.
Met chief says London “will not stop”
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She said: “I’ve been out and about today. The public seem to be very positive about the number of officers that we have.”
She added: “The great thing about London is that we don’t give in, we don’t give in to terrorists – we never have and we carry on.
“So the transport system is running just as it ever did and the events are going ahead today. People are out and about. I’ve spoken to lots of people, Londoners and tourists and business people. People are here and I would say, carry on about your business and secondly, of course, be vigilant.”
She added: “My main message is London is carrying on. Carry on with your business but be alert, don’t be alarmed but make sure you tell us anything that worries you.”
Scenes from Saturday morning
Armed police are making their presence felt in the capital following the news last night that Prime Minister Theresa May had raised the UK terror threat level to critical.
Meanwhile, Tube passengers have been returning to Parsons Green.
Scotland Yard describe the arrest as “significant”
The 18-year-old was arrested by Kent Police in the port area of Dover under section 41 of the Terrorism Act.
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, Senior National Co-ordinator for Counter Terrorism Policing, said: “We have made a significant arrest in our investigation this morning. Although we are pleased with the progress made, this investigation continues and the threat level remains at critical.
“The public should remain vigilant as our staff, officers and partners continue to work through this complex investigation. We are not, at this time, changing our protective security measures and the steps taken to free up extra armed officers remain in place.
“This arrest will lead to more activity from our officers. For strong investigative reasons we will not give any more details on the man we arrested at this stage.”
18-year-old arrested in Dover over London bombing
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Man, 18, arrested in Dover
An 18-year-old man has been arrested in the Dover area under the Prevention of Terrorism Act in connection with the Parsons Green station bombing.
More information to follow as we receive it.
Tightened security ahead of Chelsea v Arsenal game
In a statement, Chelsea said: “Following Friday morning’s incident at Parsons Green, and in order to help us fully prepare for the game, the majority of the Stamford Bridge site will remain closed until Sunday morning.
“This includes Stadium Tours, the Museum, Megastore and the Chelsea Health Club & Spa, while the ticket office will be operating via telephone and online only.
“During that time, entrance to the site will be via the Stamford Gate entrance only. On Sunday, we urge supporters to arrive at least one hour before kick-off to allow for extra security measures.
“We also request that supporters do not bring bags as this will delay your entry to the stadium. The club continues to monitor events and liaise with the police and relevant authorities on supporter safety.”
Trump under fire in US over London bombing comments
Ben Cardin, a Democratic member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, backed Theresa May in her rebuke of Donald Trump over the London bombing David Millward reports.
“I think the Prime Minister of the UK was appropriate in calling the president out.”
John Cohen, former US counterterrorism official and now a professor at Rutgers University, also believed Mr Trump’s intervention was unhelpful.
“At this stage investigators are going to be doing everything they can to locate those involved in the attack, and in particular the bomb maker,” he told the New York Times.
“These types of statements — at this stage of the investigation — can undermine law enforcement efforts because it discloses key information that the investigators may be using to locate the attackers, and it could put peoples’ lives at risk.”
Bomb ‘highly likely’ to be TATP – CNN
A source briefed by investigators told CNN that an initial assessment of the device indicates it is “highly likely” to have contained the explosive TATP but that this has not been confirmed. It also appeared to have been crude and poorly designed, the source said.
‘Excellent progress’ made in hunt for terrorist, police say
Met Assistant Commissioner, Mark Rowley, said the police were making “excellent progress” in the hunt for the terrorist.
He said officers were trawling through hundreds of hours of CCTV footage and 77 images and videos taken by members of the public at the scene were also being examined.
Mr Rowley said the IED had now been made safe and was being examined by specialist forensic scientists.
Threat level raised to ‘critical’
The UK’s terror threat level has been raised from severe to critical, indicating a further attack may be imminent, following the Parsons Green Tube bomb, Prime Minister Theresa May said.
Army troops will be assisting the police with their duties, freeing up officers to continue their investigation into the attack.
Islamic State claims responsibility for the attack
The Islamic State terror group has claimed responsibility for the attack, according to the Amaq news agency which has links to the group.
White House defends Trump’s comments on Parsons Green attack
Mr McMaster was asked about Donald Trump’s comments this morning, in which he said the suspect of the bombing was “in the sights” of Scotland Yard.
Theresa May called that speculation “unhelpful”.
Mr McMaster said he thought the president was speaking in general terms, and did not have any specific information.
He said: “I think what the president was communicating was that all our law enforcement efforts are focused on this threat for years.
“Scotland Yard is a leader in this, and if it happened here in the US the FBI would also have the suspect in their sights.
“I think he means generally this kind of activity is what we are trying to prevent.”
President Trump calls for renewed effort to cut terror funding
H.R. McMaster, Donald Trump’s national security adviser, has just spoken about the Parsons Green attack in the White House, Harriet Alexander reports.
He said: “The US stands in solidarity with the people of the UK.
“We will defend our people and our values against these cowardly attacks, and we will always stand by countries who do the same.”
He said Mr Trump had been “unambiguous” in his policy on terrorism, urging a renewed effort at cutting financing for terrorist networks.
President Trump speaks to PM to express sympathy
The White House press secretary has revealed details of the phone call between Donald Trump and Theresa May. The US president phoned to “convey his sympathies and prayers for those injured in the terrorist attack today in London”, the White House said.
“The President pledged to continue close collaboration with the United Kingdom to stop attacks worldwide targeting innocent civilians and to combat extremism. ”
A Downing Street spokesman said: “President Trump called the Prime Minister earlier today to offer his condolences over this morning’s cowardly attack in London.
“They also discussed North Korea’s latest missile test, agreeing it was a reckless provocation and that China must now use all its leverage to bring pressure to bear on the North Korean regime to ensure they change course and end these illegal tests.”
Number of injured rises to 29
NHS England says 29 people have been treated after the explosion at Parsons Green tube station.
As of 5.30pm on Friday, NHS England said it was now treating 21 patients.
Eight others were discharged earlier in the day.
Soldiers on the streets and extra armed police on patrol as Theresa May raises terror level to CRITICAL after ISIS claim Tube bucket-bomb attack was carried out by a cell of several jihadis
Soldiers and armed police will be on the streets as the threat level is raised to critical, the highest possible
Scotland Yard have identified the suspect behind the rush hour blast on District Line train at Parsons Green
Manhunt underway for bomber amid fears he may have left other devices and could be armed with knives
Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the west London attack saying its ‘soldiers’ had ‘planted IEDs’
IED had timer attached meaning terrorist probably exited at an earlier station but bomb failed to detonate
Bloodied and burned commuters ‘ran for their lives’ after explosion on London Underground this morning
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By Martin Robinson, Uk Chief Reporter and Richard Spillett, Crime Correspondent and Amie Gordon and Katie French and Rory Tingle For Mailonline
PUBLISHED: 03:41 EDT, 15 September 2017 | UPDATED: 18:39 EDT, 15 September 2017
Soldiers are being deployed on London’s streets as the terror threat level is raised to critical amid fears the Parsons Green bomber could strike again, Theresa May announced tonight.
Operation Temperer will see military personnel replacing police at key sites such as nuclear power plants to free up extra armed officers for regular patrols.
Scotland Yard said it is making ‘excellent’ progress in hunting the suspected terrorist who set off an improvised bucket bomb on a packed commuter train by Parsons Green tube station in west London at 8.20am.
Mrs May said in a statement from Number 10: ‘The Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre has now decided to raise the national threat level from severe to critical – this means their assessment is that a further attack may be imminent.’
Minutes later Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley suggested there may have been more than one person involved stating that police were ‘chasing down suspects’.
Police identified the suspected terrorist using CCTV but the investigation has been overshadowed by an extraordinary diplomatic row triggered by Donald Trump
The US President tweeted just hours after the rush hour blast that police had the attacker ‘in their sights’ and should have been ‘more proactive’ in catching ‘the loser’.
Scotland Yard hit back and said Mr Trump’s comments were ‘pure speculation’ while senior officers refused to name the suspect.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack tonight, saying its ‘soldiers’ had ‘planted IEDs’.
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A photograph of the flaming white bucket taken just after it exploded around 8.20am shows a number of wires protruding out of the top and on to the train carriage floor
The majority of victims suffered ‘flash burns’ including to their heads (pictured) and several have been taken to a specialist burns unit
A victim, believed to be a schoolchild, is carried from the station with charred legs (left) as others were treated for burns in the street and neighbouring shops (centre) and an 11-year-old who was found on the floor asking for his brother
Theresa May gave a statement from within Downing Street in which she announced the terror threat level would be raised to critical, its highest level
Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley suggested there may have been more than one person involved stating that police were ‘chasing down suspects’
A well-dressed young woman was walked to safety by a Met officer after having her head bandaged after suffering a burn or wound to her cheek
Firefighters from the London Fire Brigade raced to the scene in west London and were there within five minutes
This photograph captured the moment the first members of the emergency services raced to the scene within five minutes of the explosion
Elite armed counter-terrorism police are at the scene amid reports of the suspect being on the run and claims of a second device
At least 20 people are believed to have been injured by the blast, many of whom suffered burns from the fireball that flew through the carriage (Peter Crowley pictured left today and right before the attack)
A traumatised and injured passenger on the ill-fated Parsons Green train is taken away by paramedics and firefighters
The majority of the victims have suffered ‘flash burns’ caused by the ignition – but it appears that the bomb did not properly detonate
A forensic officer outside Parsons Green station in West London where there remains a heavy police presence as the manhunt for the suspected terrorist continues
Security was stepped up at stations around London following this morning’s attack. Pictured is a British Transport Police officers at Euston
A police officer watches on as commuters file into the underground at Euston Station amid newly tightened security
As Britain faced its fifth terror attack in a year it has emerged:
Bucket bomb left on Tube train – which had a timer – failed to explode properly at 8.20am but left 29 injured;
Most victims suffered ‘flash burns’ and others crush injuries in ‘human stampede’ as people fled the train;
Two hours after the explosion Metropolitan Police confirmed they were treating it as a terrorist incident;
The IED used Christmas lights as a fuse, as recommended by ISIS magazines and online bomb manuals;
Police are looking for multiple suspects – and officers have told MailOnline that main suspect is armed;
Donald Trump insists he has been briefed on bombing and Scotland Yard knew of the suspect before attack;
The Metropolitan Police hit back at ‘pure speculation’ and refused to name the suspect they are looking for;
Met spotters are watching back CCTV from the train and at Tube stations to trace the bomber’s steps;
ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack through its Amaq news agency saying ‘soldiers’ had ‘planted IEDs’
Police asks the public to dial 999 or the anti-terror hotline on 0800 789 321 if they see anything suspicious.
The crude bucket bomb – which had a timer – went off at 8.20am inside a tube train packed with commuters, including children and a pregnant woman.
The device was hidden in a builder’s bucket and could have killed dozens but failed to properly detonate and sent a ‘wall of fire’ through the carriage at Parsons Green injuring at least 29 people.
Terrified passengers were seen covered in blood with scorched hands, legs, faces and hair – others suffered crush injuries during a stampede as they ‘ran for their lives’ over fears the ‘train would blow up’.
London Ambulance took 19 patients to hospitals, while the others went in themselves. The four hospitals dealing with patients were Imperial, Chelsea and Westminster, Guy’s and St Thomas’ and St George’s.
Officers are hunting for the bomber across London amid claims he could be armed and may have planted other explosive devices.
An officer at the scene told MailOnline: ‘We believe there is a second bomb – there is a man with knives on the loose.’
Theresa May raises terror threat level to its highest possible
Mrs May said in a statement from Number 10 –
‘The Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre has now decided to raise the national threat level from severe to critical – this means their assessment is that a further attack may be imminent.
‘The public will see more armed police on the transport network and on our streets, providing extra protection.
‘This is a proportionate and sensible step which will provide extra reassurance and protection while the investigation progresses.’
In a pre-recorded television statement, May said military personnel would replace police officers ‘on guard duties at certain protected sites which are not accessible to the public’.
She said: ‘The public will see more armed police on the transport network and on our streets, providing extra protection.
‘This is a proportionate and sensible step which will provide extra reassurance and protection while the investigation progresses.’
Speaking moments afterwards, Assistant Commissioner Mike Rowley said: ‘We are making excellent progress at the moment as we pursue our lines of inquiry to identify, locate and arrest those responsible.
‘We have hundreds of police officers trawling through CCTV footage, detectives have spoken to tens of witnesses and we have taken a large number of calls to the hotline… for members of the public.
‘Indeed members of the public have sent in so far 77 images and videos of the scene which they have sent in to our appeal website and these are now being assessed for evidential value.’
Mr Rowley said he was only aware of one device, and the remnants of that device are being examined by experts.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan told LBC radio ‘there is a manhunt under way as we speak’ and there have been no arrests.
ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack this evening through its Amaq News Agency, saying its ‘soldiers planted IEDs’. However, the group has often made false claims in the past.
Photographs show what experts believe is a ‘unsophisticated’ bomb in a flaming white bucket inside a Lidl freezer bag with Christmas lights protruding from the top – a type of fuse encouraged by ISIS in its online manuals.
Donald Trump tweeted just hours after the rush hour blast that police had the attacker ‘in their sights’ and should have been ‘more proactive’ in catching ‘the loser’.
Scotland Yard hit back and said Mr Trump’s comments were ‘pure speculation’ while senior officers refused to name the suspect.
Mrs May also hit out at the President’s tweet, calling it ‘unhelpful’, and has this evening discussed the intelligence sharing between the two countries with the President in a telephone call.
This image was taken from the platform in the minutes after the terror attack and it remained alight until the fire service arrived
A forensics tent has been erected on the platform – although there have been no fatalities – and a single pair of shoes lies abandoned outside the door where the bomb ignited
Horrified witnesses on social media claim there was a stampede as people were ‘screaming and running’ off the trains, which was searched by heavily armed police officers today
A heavily armed officer wanders through the damaged train’s carriages looking for more devices
The abandoned train at Parsons Green today after a terrorist left a bucket bomb on the carriage floor
Police believe the bomber may have exited the train (pictured) perhaps one or two stops before the bomb went off
Passengers on trains at Parsons Green were evacuated onto the track away to safety after London was hit by another terror attack
Passengers are ushered across the track by firefighters after getting trapped in the aftermath of the bombing
Witnesses to the explosion said there was a loud ‘bang’, a flash and then a ball of flame engulfed surrounding passengers on the ‘packed’ District Line train.
Luke Warsmey said: ‘The explosion was like a large match going off at the end of the carriage. People just started sprinting. It was every man for himself when that happened. The burn victims had severe leg injuries.
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The failure of the Metropolitan Police to name the suspect contrasts sharply with the response to the last major terror attack in Europe, Barcelona in August.
Just over an hour after the attack took place, Spanish police tweeted the public to say they were searching for the attacker and to avoid the area.
Then, three hours after the attack, a photo of a suspect, Driss Oukabir, was released and circulated online.
The release of the image caused Oukabir to come forward to his local police and tell officers his documents had been stolen.
This was again revealed to the media as Oukabir’s younger brother Moussa became the prime suspect.
‘It was a very busy commuter train, young and old, school children going to their schools. I saw was nannies trying to look for kids, because of the rush of people just taking five and six year olds away from them and they were trying to look for them.
‘There were lots of injuries from people being trampled on and everyone who had been close to it had the same burns to their head.’
Prime Minister Theresa May chaired a meeting of the Government’s Cobra emergencies committee this afternoon to discuss the terrorist attack.
Mrs May later appealed to any members of the public with images of the incident to pass them to the police.
Armed Police, paramedics and firefighters were all said to be at the west London station within five minutes of the explosion today.
A 100 yard cordon was erected around the station and a police helicopter was also overhead.
The Met confirmed it was a terrorist attack around 40 minutes later.
Scotland Yard said the area surrounding Parsons Green Tube station has been evacuated so specialist officers could ‘secure the remnants of the improvised device and ensure it is stable’.
NHS England said 29 patients in total were being treated at Imperial, Chelsea and Westminster, Guy’s and St Thomas’ and the Central London Community Healthcare Urgent Care Centre. Of these 18 were taken by ambulance and four self-presented.
In the aftermath armed police swooped from the SO-15 counter-terrorism unit performed a hard-stop on a bus in nearby Chelsea Bridge Road. The call was linked to the terror attack but nothing suspicious was found on board.
Specialist officer have been examining the bomb and believe they will be able to gather crucial DNA evidence because it failed to properly detonate
Armed police swamped the area and there are claims that there is a suspect on the run who may also be armed
A team of paramedics walk towards the station to treat victims and St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington have declared an emergency
Sniffer dogs are also searching around the cordoned off area amid claims that there are other devices
Specialist forensic officer, including some with expertise in dealing with bombings and chemical incidents, are combing the train for clues
Armed policemen stand by cordon near Parsons Green tube station – and the Met will flood London with them over the coming days
A police cordon remained outside Parsons Green Tube station on Friday afternoon following the blast during the morning rush hour
A forensic officer in blue overalls walks along the pavement near Parsons Green tube station as the investigation continues into the attack
Emma Stevie, 27, described a ‘human stampede’ after the bomb went off. She said: ‘I heard lots of screams and people saying ‘run, run’. We got out and then there was a human stampede, down the stairs.
‘There were people lying underneath getting crushed, a big human pile-on. I wedged myself in next to a railing. I put myself in the foetal position. I kept thinking, ‘I’ll be ok, I’ll be ok’.
‘There was a pregnant woman underneath me, and I was trying really hard not to crush her.’
Lidl will help police after their bag was used to house bomb
Supermarket Lidl has offered to assist a police investigation into the terrorist incident on the London Underground, after one of its bags was apparently used to hold the improvised bomb.
The German-owned grocery chain issued a statement just hours after social media photos of the affected District Line carriage showed a still-burning bucket inside a Lidl-branded reusable bag.
‘We are shocked and concerned to have learned of an incident at Parsons Green this morning and our thoughts are with those affected,’ Lidl UK said.
‘We will, of course, support the authorities should they need our assistance in their investigations. We are closely monitoring the situation as it develops over the course of the day.’
A spokesman for the supermarket also confirmed that what seemed to be an insensitive tweet, purportedly sent out by Lidl UK’s twitter account on Friday morning, was fake.
Twitter user @jesuiscanard appeared to retweet a Lidl UK tweet from 10:32am which read: ‘We are proud to officially have the strongest bags. Great value for just 10p.’
Richard Aylmer-Hall told Sky News: ‘There were a few crush injuries on the stairs. People got squashed and crushed going down the stairs. Police evacuated everyone from the scene pretty quickly.
‘There was screaming, pushing and shoving – it was a like there was a terrorist on the loose with a gun or something – lots of people were in tears. When it was all over lots of people were being comforted and looked after. It was total chaotic panic.
‘A lady who had been on the same carriage as the device described it going off – a puff of smoke and flames coming out of it.’
Couple Lucy, 24 and Fabin, 29, were on their way to work when the explosion happened.
Lucy, who works in PR, said: ‘We just heard screaming and sprinting, there was a stampede on the stairs and people were falling over, there was a schoolboy being lifted up after he had fallen down, he was in his school uniform, he must have been about ten, he was crying and distressed.’
Fulham fitness instructor Niyi Shokunbi, 24, was in the next carriage the moment the bomb went off.
He told MailOnline: ‘I have never seen anything like it was like something out of a film. I thought it was an acid attack. It happened like bang within ten seconds, i just wanted to run.
‘I went towards the carriage where the bomb went off a woman said you don’t want to go in there. I saw a little boy with scratches on his face crying for his brother. A woman was bleeding. Everyone was running. I’ve never seen anything like it.’
People suffered burns from the explosion and others were hurt in the crush as people fled.
Rob Partinton, 24, from Harrow told MailOnline: ‘We were literally about two minutes from Parsons Green when the train suddenly stopped.
‘I saw people running on the track opposite direction towards Fulham Broadway, I could hear no screams but a lot of people running. We’ve been held at the station for the last half an hour. It’s pretty busy, a lot of police around and police dogs.’
Another witness, Sham, said he saw a man with blood all over his face. ‘There were loads of people crying and shaking,’ he told 5 live.
‘There were a lot of people limping and covered in blood. One guy I saw, his face was covered in blood – I’ve never seen anything like it.’
There is terror and panic at the station this morning, with police officers consoling members of the public
An injured man is helped into an ambulance – one of 18 ferried by ambulance to hospitals across London. Four others went to A&E themselves
A family with young children look towards the station in the aftermath of the terror attack on London
Armed Police, paramedics and firefighters were all said to be at the west London station within five minutes of the explosion
People were stranded after the bombing and the District Line is expected to be closed for at least today
Bomb disposal experts are at the scene amid fears there could be second bomb
Passengers ran onto the rail tracks to get away from the train as a fireball engulfed the carriage
Witnesses claim people were trampled on when they fled the train after hearing a ‘whoosh’ and seeing flames race towards them
Flames engulfed one carriage and raced along a train on a west London route to Parsons Green, forcing passengers to trample others as they rushed for an exit
At the scene dozens of police and ambulances have continued to be called into the cordoned area. It is not known at this stage how many people are injured.
Specialist armed anti-terror units also swamped the area.
Fairy lights have been used as detonators by extremist bombers before
Pictures of the apparent home-made bomb seen after the explosion show a Lidl coolbag with a large paint tub inside and a string of Christmas tree lights hanging over the top.
If the device does turn out to be a terrorist bomb, it would not be the first time extremists have used so-called ‘fairy lights’ to build a device.
In May this year, a radicalised former doorman Zahid Hussain was found to have built an explosive device in his bedroom with fairy lights, shrapnel and a pressure cooker.
He is said to have researched bomb-making techniques online, with police finding a wealth of notes and instructions at his home in Birmingham when he was arrested in 2015.
Chief Superintendent Matt Ward, of West Midlands Police, said of Hussain’s bomb at the time: ‘Forensic examination of the pressure cooker found it contained mixed urea, nails, drills bits, nuts, bolts, steel sockets and diesel fuel.
‘The Christmas tree lights also found at his address had been adapted so each one could be used as an explosive initiator or detonator.
‘Examination of his computer discovered browsing history relating to terrorism including bomb making and bomb blast injuries, showing he had a consistent and continued interest in
Chris Wildish, who was on the train, said he saw a ‘device’ in the last carriage.
‘It was a white bucket, a builder’s bucket, in a white Aldi bag or Lidl bag,’ he told 5live.
‘Flames were still coming out of it when I saw it and had a lot of wires hanging out of it – I can only assume it was done on purpose.
‘It was standing against the door of the rear-most carriage.’
Chris Wildish, who was on the train, said he saw a ‘device’ in the last carriage.
‘It was a white bucket, a builder’s bucket, in a white Aldi bag or Lidl bag,’ he told 5live.
‘Flames were still coming out of it when I saw it and had a lot of wires hanging out of it’.
Sylvain Pennec, a software developer from Southfields, near Wimbledon, was around 10 metres from the source of the explosion when fire filled the carriage.
‘I heard a boom and when I looked there were flames all around,’ he said. ‘People started to run but we were lucky to be stopping at Parsons Green as the door started to open.’
He described the scene of panic as commuters struggled to escape the carriage, ‘collapsing and pushing’ each other.
Mr Pennec stayed behind to take a closer look at what he believed was the source of the explosion.
‘It looked like a bucket of mayonnaise,’ he said. ‘I’m not sure if it was a chemical reaction or something else, but it looked homemade. I’m not an expert though.’
Passengers on the train behind the affected Tube witnessed terrified passengers sprinting away up the tracks.
They were then held in their train for over an hour before being evacuated on to the tracks themselves.
Nicole Linnell, 29, who works for a fashion label, said: ‘We saw people running down the tracks. About 30 or 40 people.
‘They were running down the tracks outside our train.
‘It was absolutely terrifying. Running on the tracks is the last thing you want to do so we were like ‘What’s going on?’
‘After about an hour we were evacuated off the train on to the tracks. About 10 to 15 people at a time.’
Melanie Heyside had been at a gym nearby and intended to get on a District Line train to go to work.
She told Sky News: ‘I just was about to open the doors to leave the studio and then all of a sudden Swat cars completely stormed and blocked the street and police jumped out with their armour and were telling people to ‘move, to move’.
‘So I was inside with a group of other people and we weren’t really sure what to do.’
She said they were told to leave the area, which she added was populated by schoolchildren and others going to work, as quickly as possible.
Lady Margaret’s School, next to Parson’s Green tube station, has put an alert out to concerned parents to say all children are okay and there are no absences.
‘Crude’ bucket bomb made with fairy lights could have killed DOZENS say experts as police reveal 21/7-style device failed to properly detonate
Explosives experts say the Parsons Green bomb could have killed dozens if it had properly detonated at rush-hour this morning.
Anti-terror police are now examining the bucket bomb which failed to fully go off on a tube train in west London as they try to track down the bomber.
Photos of the explosive show a large builder’s tub – believed be packed with explosives – inside a Lidl coolbag, with a string of Christmas tree lights, thought to have been a crude detonator, hanging over the top.
Officers compared the device to those used in the failed 21/7 bombings, in which jihadis attempted to blow up tube trains. In that case, the bombs’ detonators went off but the explosives themselves were not ignited.
Photos of the bomb at Parsons Green show a builder’s bucket inside a Lidl coolbag with apparent fairy lights hanging out of it. It is thought the bomb failed to fully detonate
It is believed the bomb was left on the busy district line train from Wimbledon this morning before the bomber escaped. Police are analysing the device to track down the terrorist
ISIS have encouraged followers to use the lights in bomb guides they post online, but the terror group have yet to claim responsibility for the attack.
A timer is understood to have been found on the device, suggesting the terrorist left it on board the train and then got off. It also suggests it was intended to go off at busier stations further down the line.
Terror expert Will Geddes said: ‘My suspicion is that Parsons Green was not the intended target.
‘Unless a person knows it, it is not going to mean a great deal to you – if it was Paddington or Notting Hill, they are internationally recognised names.’
‘I think it was more a premature detonation than anything else. This could have been a lot worse. It could have killed a significant number of people.’
Others say the bomb probably didn’t detonated properly because it was badly made.
Explosives expert Dr Sidney Alford told MailOnline: ‘The fact that an initial bang was heard but the bomb did not even shatter the plastic bucket it was contained in suggests to me this could have been hydrogen peroxide.
‘I can rule out other types of explosives as if the initial bang was heard with those they would have gone off completely and destroyed the bucket.’
Flames engulfed one carriage and raced along a train on a west London route to Parsons Green, forcing passengers to trample others as they rushed for an exit
Dr Alford said the bomb properly did not go off because it was poorly designed.
Witnesses reported a ‘strong, acrid chemical smell’ in the carriage after the explosion.
Major General Chip Chapman told Sky News: ‘This doesn’t look like a high-end explosive from ISIS such as TATP (triacetone triperoxide) or, if it was, it failed significantly, the booster or detonator didn’t go off.’
‘That said of course, the most devastating land-based terror attack in Europe, in Madrid, had a similar modus operandi.’
He added: ‘It’s not a high explosive that functioned because the blast and shockwave would have killed multiple people.’
Former Army bomb squad expert Chris Hunter told the channel the pictures reminded him of the devices which failed to go off during botched the 21/7 attacks.
In that instance, a group of Islamic terrorists planned to carry out a copy-cat attack to 7/7, but although the detonator part of the bombs went off, they did not ignite the explosives and only one person was injured.
Examining the image of the bomb, chemical weapons expert Hamish de Bretton-Gordon told MailOnline: ‘It looks pretty unsophisticated.
‘It could be an incendiary device with some sort of detonator in a big white plastic bucket, perhaps with some sort of chemical like ammonia nitrate, fertiliser bomb to cause an explosion.’
He said the attack looked like ‘classic jihadi terrorism’ and the bomb could have been ‘devastating’ if it had detonated properly.
Mr de Bretton-Gordon said the attack would raise further questions over whether the sale of certain chemicals should be more heavily regulated.’
Describing the device, witness Sylvain Pennec said: ‘It looked like a bucket of mayonnaise. I’m not sure if it was a chemical reaction or something else, but it looked home made.’
The incident has been compared to the 21/7 attacks in which bombs were placed on the underground and the detonators went off, but did not ignite the explosives
In that instance, the bombers Muktar Said Ibrahim (left) and Ramzi Mohammed were tracked down by police and convicted of terror offences
It is not be the first time extremists have used so-called them to build a device.
In May this year, a radicalised former doorman Zahid Hussain was found to have built an explosive device in his bedroom with fairy lights, shrapnel and a pressure cooker.
He is said to have researched bomb-making techniques online, with police finding a wealth of notes and instructions at his home in Birmingham when he was arrested in 2015.
Similarities between the device and that used in the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 have also been drawn.
In that case, timers were also used to allow the bombers to get away. However, in that case the explosives were in a pressure cooker.
Transport for London said Tube services were suspended between Edgware Road and Wimbledon
Members of a bomb disposal squad stand in the street near Parsons Green tube station
Counter-terrorism police are monitoring events at Parsons Green and are now hunting at least one suspect
A number of commuters have been taken to hospital with serious facial burns, as police remain at the scene
There were reports of a man at the station with a knife in the aftermath of the explosion. Scotland Yard said they believe this is unrelated to the Tube incident
Pictures from the District Line train appear to show a burning plastic bucket stashed in a Lidl carrier bag, which exploded
A police officer and a sniffer dog stand in the street near Parsons Green tube station
People at the chaotic scene have been frantically calling relatives in the aftermath of the explosion
Police at the scene are keeping people away, moving them up Fulham Road and away from the station
Emergency services at the scene following a blast on an underground train at Parsons Green tube station in West London
Peter Crowley tweeted this photograph, with the caption: ‘Charred head from the fireball at Parsons Green’
Dozens of police vehicles are at the scene as people are being urged to avoid the area
A London Fire Brigade spokeswoman said: ‘We were called at 8.21am and we have information there was a fire on a train eastbound at the platform at Parsons Green’
Armed police are at the scene in London, as commuters have been evacuated
Images from the scene show emergency services and armed police
Social media users reported a ‘stampede’ around the underground station at rush hour
The London Ambulance Service was called at 8:20am and sent single responders in cars, ambulance crews, incident response officers and a hazardous area response team
People fled the Underground station in panic, amid reports there was an explosion
May confronts Trump in a direct phone call after the US President sparked a diplomatic row by claiming Scotland Yard had the Parsons Green bomber ‘in their sights’ before the terror attack
Theresa May today confronted Donald Trump to vent her anger after he claimed Scotland Yard had the Parsons Green bomber ‘in their sights’ before the attack.
The US President sparked a major diplomatic row by suggesting British police knew the extremist behind the bucket bomb in the second major intelligence sharing breach in just five months.
Both Mrs May and the Met Police reacted with fury to the intervention slamming Mr Trump for speculating about the fast moving terror investigation.
And in a direct call with the US leader late this afternoon, the Prime Minister raised her concerns over the comment directly with him.
The row is a revival of damaging split between London and Washington in May when shared intelligence about the Manchester bombing was handed to US media.
In a brief statement after the call a Downing Street spokeswoman said: ‘President Trump called the Prime Minister earlier today to offer his condolences over this morning’s cowardly attack in London.’
The White House said Mr Trump ‘pledged to continue close collaboration with the United Kingdom to stop attacks worldwide targeting innocent civilians and to combat extremism’.
Mr Trump sparked a furious reaction from British police and politicians after he wrote on Twitter: ‘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!’
Angry MPs told the Mail Online his careless words risked endangering the crucial manhunt to find the extremist behind the attack.
After risking a new diplomatic row with Britain, Mr Trump insisted he had been briefed on intelligence about the attack and called Mrs May.
Donald Trump on the White House lawn today where he insisted he had been briefed about Parsons Green and said the suspect was known to police
Theresa May (pictured in No 10 this afternoon) said any speculation was unhelpful when asked about the President’s tweets on the Parsons Green attack
Trump tweeted: ‘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!’
Met terror chief Mark Rowley updated the media on the investigation this morning (pictured) but has not given any details of any man hunt
But in an afternoon press briefing, US National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster insisted that Trump wasn’t conveying information about Friday’s attack in particular.
‘I think what the president was communicating is that obviously all of our law enforcement efforts are focused on this terrorist threat from, you know – for years,’ McMaster told reporters at the White House. ‘Scotland Yard has been a leader, as our FBI has been a leader.’
‘So I think if there was a terrorist attack here, God forbid, that we would say that they were in the sights of the FBI. So I think he didn’t mean anything beyond that. … I think he means generally that this kind of activity is what we’re trying to prevent. And so these organizations that are responsible for it, whatever comes out of this investigation that remains to be seen, it is likely that law enforcement had been orking on that problem set.’
Mr Trump’s initial Tweets came at almost exactly the same time as Met Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley gave an initial update on the attack in a TV statement.
Standard UK police procedure in the aftermath of any terror attack is to keep the identity of any suspects confidential. The tactic allows rapid arrests to be carried out without alerting the prime suspect or their family and friends.
Mr Trump’s used today’s tirade to promote his plans for a travel crackdown on Muslims wanting to visit the United States.
Speaking from Downing Street after chairing a meeting of the Government’s emergency ‘Cobra’ committee, Mrs May said: ‘I never think it’s helpful for anybody to speculate on what is an ongoing investigation.’
A Met Police spokesman said: ‘The comments are unhelpful and pure speculation.
‘If anyone has got any evidence or information, please contact the anti-terrorism hotline.’
President Donald Trump has claimed Scotland Yard knew ahead of time about a bomber or bombers who set off a crude incendiary bomb Friday morning on London’s ‘Tube’ subway
Trump added: ‘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!’
The force declined to give details when asked by MailOnline if they had a suspect, evidence of a wider plot or if any suspect was seen on CCTV.
Liberal Democrat home affairs Sir Ed Davey told MailOnline Mr Trump could undermine the police investigation
He said: ‘It is insulting to the victims of this attack that Donald Trump is already using it to try and further his divisive political agenda.
‘Once again, Trump has shown he is not fit for the office of US President.’
Labour MP Stephen Doughty, a member of the Home Affairs Select Committee, told the MailOnline the President should not have intervened.
He said: ‘The full focus must be on allowing the police and security services to do their job, and those responding at the scene to the emergency and tending to those injured.’
Mr Doughty warned the United States was endangering the special relationship by interfering in British investigations.
He said: ‘It has the potential to not only undermine a vital relationship, but also to prejudice investigations into this and other incidents.’
Theresa May’s former adviser Nick Timothy reacted to Trump’s intervention by saying the president ‘doesn’t know’ anything: ‘This is so unhelpful from leader of our ally and intelligence partner’
Mr Doughty said it is ‘obviously not the first time’ key pieces of information about a terror attack have been leaked by the US, after details of the Manchester bombing investigation were printed in American newspapers.
Mr Timothy tweeted: ‘True or not – and I’m sure he doesn’t know – this is so unhelpful from leader of our ally and intelligence partner.’
London Mayor Sadiq Khan – who has clashed publicly with Mr Trump before over London terrorism – told LBC today he had not seen the tweets but insisted the focus must be on allowing the police to get on with their job.
He said: ‘What is important is cool, calm heads are heard now.’
Mr Trump’s tweets could reignite the diplomatic row between the UK and the US over the leaking of sensitive police information.
In May the UK police temporarily stopping sharing intelligence about the terror investigation with America over a series of leaks about the Manchester bombing.
The president linked Friday’s attack to his controversial travel ban, saying it ‘should be far larger, tougher and more specific – but stupidly, that would not be politically correct!’
He also drew attention to the military action against ISIS and should the US should get ‘nasty’
It is understood American law enforcement agencies had the pictures for only a matter of hours before they were handed to a journalist from the New York Times.
The leak was the way Britons discovered the identity of the bomber Salman Abedi. Greater Manchester Police did not confirm his name until later.
At the time, Mrs May warned continued leaking would undermine the special relationship.
She told reporters the ties between Britain and America was the ‘deepest defense and security partnership that we have’ but she warned it was ‘built on trust’.
‘Part of that trust is knowing that intelligence can be shared confidently and I will be making clear to President Trump today that intelligence that is shared between law enforcement agencies must remain secure,’ she added.
The latest version of Trump’s travel ban, initially announced in a botched late-January rollout, calls for a ban on people entering the U.S. from six terror-prone countries that are also Muslim-majority nations.
It also bars the entry of most refugees from anywhere in the world.
Federal court challenges have resulted in exceptions being made for travelers who already have established ties to the U.S., including a broad definition of what counts as a close family member.
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to hear oral arguments to decide the ban’s constitutionality in October, but allowed it to go into effect last month while the case is pending.
Timeline of terror: Parsons Green train bombing is FIFTH attack to hit Britain in 2017
March 22: Five people are killed in a car and knife attack in Westminster.
Khalid Masood drove a hire car over Westminster Bridge, near the Houses of Parliament, mounted the pavement and hit pedestrians before crashing into railings outside the Palace of Westminster.
He stabbed Pc Keith Palmer, 48, to death.
Also killed in the atrocity were US tourist Kurt Cochran, Romanian tourist Andreea Cristea, 31, and Britons Aysha Frade, 44, and 75-year-old Leslie Rhodes. Masood was shot dead by police.
March 22: Five people were killed in a car and knife attack in Westminster, London
May 22: Twenty-two people – including children – are killed in a bombing at a pop concert in Manchester.
Lone suicide attacker Salman Abedi detonated an explosive device as crowds of music fans, many of them youngsters, left Manchester Arena following a performance by US singer Ariana Grande.
May 22: Twenty-two people – including children – are killed in a bombing at a pop concert in Manchester
Lone suicide attacker Salman Abedi detonated an explosive device as crowds of music fans, many of them youngsters, left Manchester Arena
June 3: Eight people are killed in a terror attack around London Bridge.
A van ploughed into people on the bridge before the three attackers carried out a knife rampage in Borough Market.
The perpetrators – Khuram Butt, 27, Rachid Redouane, 30, and Youssef Zaghba, 22 – were shot dead by police.
Khuram Butt, 27, Rachid Redouane, 30, and Youssef Zaghba, 22 – were shot dead by police
June 19: One man dies and several others are injured after a man allegedly rams his van into worshippers in north London.
Darren Osborne, 47, of no fixed address in Cardiff, is charged with murder and attempted murder after being accused of carrying out a premeditated attack on Muslims as they left a mosque on Seven Sisters Road, Finsbury Park.
June 19: One man dies and several others are injured after a man allegedly rams his van into worshippers in north London
Police warned there is no such thing as a ‘typical terrorist’ after official statistics showed rises in numbers detained across ethnicities and age groups.
There were 379 arrests for terrorism-related offences in the year ending June 2017, the highest number in a 12-month period since data collection began in 2001.
Police and MI5 are running 500 investigations involving 3,000 individuals at any one time, while there are also 20,000 former ‘subjects of interest’ whose risk must be kept under review.
The fairy lights bomber: Jihadi used similar device in plot two years ago
In 2015, Zahid Hussain, pictured right, used adapted Christmas tree lights, shrapnel and a pressure cooker to improvise a bomb.
When officers raided his home in the Alum Rock area of the city, they found his room littered with text books detailing guerrilla warfare techniques and small arms combat, further bomb making instructions and dismantled electrical items such as doorbells and alarm clocks.
He bought most of the items he used for his bombs over the internet.
Chief Superintendent Matt Ward, of West Midlands Police, said of Hussain’s bomb at the time: ‘Forensic examination of the pressure cooker found it contained mixed urea, nails, drills bits, nuts, bolts, steel sockets and diesel fuel.
‘The Christmas tree lights also found at his address had been adapted so each one could be used as an explosive initiator or detonator.
‘Examination of his computer discovered browsing history relating to terrorism including bomb making and bomb blast injuries, showing he had a consistent and continued interest in terrorism and conflict.’
The Christmas tree lights found at Hussain’s address, in the Alum Rock area of Birmingham, had been adapted so each one could be used as an explosive initiator or detonator
‘I feared the whole train would blow up’: Man whose hair was burned in tube explosion says he was ‘lucky to get away’ as victims describe human stampede to flee bucket bomb aftermath
Horrified witnesses have reported passengers fleeing a London tube carriage in terror as they feared the ‘whole train would blow up’.
Peter Crowley, who was travelling on the District Line this morning, said his head has been ‘charred’ after a fireball engulfed his train at Parsons Green in west London.
Emma Stevie, 27, was on the train when the explosion happened at Parsons Green, in south-west London, and was caught in a ‘stampede’ and crush on the station steps.
Other commuters at the scene said they were ‘thrown around and crushed’ by panicked crowds shouting ‘there’s a man, there’s a man’ before running from the area.
Police have evacuated Parsons Green Underground Station after reports of a man wielding a knife and a second explosive device.
Emergency services have been on the scene at the London Underground station since around 8.20am this morning when a ‘fireball’ engulfed a train.
Peter Crowley, who was travelling on the District Line this morning, said his head has been ‘charred’ after a fireball engulfed his train
A police officer escorts an injured woman from the scene at Parsons Green Underground Station
Other commuters at the scene said they were ‘thrown around and crushed’ by panicked crowds shouting ‘there’s a man, there’s a man’ before running from the area
Witnesses claim at least 30 commuters including school children were injured after a homemade bomb exploded on a packed commuter train.
Dozens of commuters made a ‘100 metre sprint’ after a large flash engulfed the 8.20am train as it pulled into Parsons Green station.
Video editor Luke Walmsley, 33, saw a woman with the skin of both her legs removed by the fire.
He also claims a ten-year-old boy suffered injuries and everybody had similar burns to their faces and hair.
In the moments after the incident photos of a burning white bucket, similar to a pot of paint inside a Lidl bag, with wires coming from the top were posted on social media.
Emma Stevie told the BBC: ‘We got on the train at Parsons Green, then I heard lots of screams and people saying ‘run, run’.
‘We got out and then there was a human stampede, down the stairs.
‘There were people lying underneath getting crushed, a big human pile-on. I wedged myself in next to a railing. I put myself in the foetal position. I kept thinking, ‘I’ll be ok, I’ll be ok’.
‘There was a pregnant woman underneath me, and I was trying really hard not to crush her.
‘The fire brigade was telling us to get back on the platform, but no-one was.
‘The injuries from the stampede seemed the worst. I’m outside now, there are women crying and people sitting on the floor.’
Dozens of commuters made a ‘100 metre sprint’ after a large flash engulfed the 8.20am train as it pulled into Parsons Green station
Peter Crowley told the BBC: ‘I heard a large bang from the doors on the other side of the tube train and this fireball came towards my heard and singed off all my hair – I have got burn marks at the top of my head. Everyone just ran off the train, it was quite scary.
‘It was a really hot intense fireball above my head, I’ve just got red marks and burns to the top of my head. There were a lot of people a lot worse than me.
‘I saw a gentleman opposite me in a puffer jacket and the whole back of that had been burned where the intense heat had got to it – he had burn marks across his face which are looking a lot worse than mine.
‘There were a lot of people in shock, a lot of people visibly upset. Mostly it was facial injuries, burns rather than cuts.
‘It was like nothing I have ever seen before – sheer panic. Everyone jumped off the train, everyone initial reaction was to look back and assess the situation. It was just sheer panic.
‘It was busy but it was movable, it was busy for that time of day. I am just going to the hospital shortly.’
Emergency services were at the scene within minutes of the terror attack
People stand by an ambulance near Parsons Green tube station
Mr Charley said: ‘I saw passengers with facial burns, they had been exposed to a very, very hot fire for a nano second, it was lucky doors were open because everyone just got off the tube’
Mr Crowley, seen here in a social media picture, described the chaos on the train this morning
He added: ‘It was a terrifying experience, I am lucky I got away with just a bit of charred hair’
Counter terror police confirmed this morning the incident at Parson’s Green is being treated as a terror attack
Accountant Sarah Hickson, 31, who was on her way to work said she was ‘thrown around and crushed’ by panicked crowds.
She said: ‘People just started shouting ‘there’s a man, there’s a man’ and everyone started running. It was just sheer panic.
‘There were two people in front of me, a pregnant woman and a schoolboy.
‘They were being crushed on the concrete stairs, TfL staff were doing their best to get control but everyone was screaming trying to get out.
‘Eventually they managed to get some calm and people moved ever so slightly back allowing the boy and pregnant woman to get up.’
She added: ‘I am physically okay but shaken up, it was a scary experience.’
People reported being crushed on the concrete stairs with TfL staff were doing their best to get control
Witnesses said ‘In the immediate seconds there were people running and shouting, it was just like where do you run to?’
People on their way to work were ‘thrown around and crushed’ by panicked crowds
Mr Walmsley, 33, said: ‘There was a really acrid burning smell that came out of the carriage.
‘We were three-quarters of a carriage away; there was screaming and then running as it pulled into Parsons Green – that was when it happened. It was coming to a standstill.
‘In the immediate seconds there were people running and shouting, it was just like where do you run to?
‘We did not know what was going on, there was a girl who had serious burns to her leg and there was a 10-year-old boy who had burns to his ankle.
‘People were rushing down the platform, everyone was doing a 100m sprint.
‘There was a flash at the end of the carriage that came down the train.
‘There were lots of injuries from people being trampled on and everyone who had been close to it had the same burns to their head.
‘We heard the first scream and then looked down and saw a flash and then the smoke and people running.
‘It was complete pandemonium, complete terror. They didn’t open the gates and the underground did not understand what was going on.
‘People were shouting ‘he’s got a knife! He’s got a knife!’ I didn’t see anyone with a knife.
‘It was the school run and there were a lot of kids in school uniform and mums and nannies trying to work out where their kids were.
‘The explosion was like a large match going off at the end of the carriage.
‘When people started running there was then the smell of burnt people.
‘There were more than 30 people injured, it was a full carriage and everyone had something wrong with them.
‘There was this girl who had no skin on her leg, whatever she had been wearing was just gone.
‘And there was another girl whose back garment was gone and her hair was gone.
‘It was a packed commuter train.’
Witnesses claim at least 30 commuters including school children were injured after a homemade bomb exploded on a packed commuter train
Couple Lucy, 24 and Fabin, 29, were on their way to work when the explosion happened.
Lucy, who works in PR, said: ‘We just heard screaming and sprinting, there was a stampede on the stairs and people were falling over, there was a schoolboy being lifted up after he had fallen down, he was in his school uniform, he must have been about ten, he was crying and distressed.’
Olaniyi Shokunbi, 24, boarded the train the bomb had been planted on at Putney Bridge and had been listening to music when he saw people scrambling off the train.
He said: ‘I thought the train was leaving Parsons Green but then I saw lots of people running up.
‘My first instinct was to get out of the train myself.
‘It’s a small station. There’s only two exits and a lot of people were struggling over each other. Some people just jumped over.
‘I thought it was an acid attack. It was early morning and people were drinking coffee and I felt some [liquid] on me and I thought ‘that better not go on my face’.’
Mr Shokunbi, a fitness instructor, said he had seen people lying on the floor covered in blood.
He said: ‘There were people on the floor, there was a little boy, I really felt sorry for him, he couldn’t have been more than 11.
‘He had scratches on his head, he was looking for his little brother.
‘I was going to go back into the train station but a woman said ‘don’t go back in there, there’s people on the floor’.’
He added: ‘There was a woman on the floor. She couldn’t breathe. People were screaming and crying.’
One man said he had seen people lying on the floor covered in blood
Flames engulfed one carriage and raced along a train on a west London route to Parsons Green, forcing passengers to trample others as they rushed for an exit
Speaking to local radio Mr Crowley added: ‘I would personally say roughly about 20 who had physical injuries a lot of people who were shaken by the incident.
‘I wasn’t aware of the bag, I tend to keep myself to myself, I was side on to where I believe the incident happened.
‘That side of my hair is charred. There was a lot powder as if it was a high pressure tube that had some coating on it.’
He added: ‘Everyone ran off the tube, it was panic stations, my initial thought was that the whole train would blow up.
‘I saw passengers with facial burns, they had been exposed to a very, very hot fire for a nano second, it was lucky doors were open because everyone just got off the tube.
‘It was a terrifying experience, I am lucky I got away with just a bit of charred hair.’
The incident is ongoing, said police at the scene as police helicopters hover ahead where the suspect is thought to still be on the loose.
Counter terror police confirmed this morning the incident at Parson’s Green is being treated as a terror attack.
At the scene dozens of police and ambulances have continued to be called into the cordoned area.
A police officer told MailOnline: ‘We believe there is a second bomb, people need to stay back there is a man with knives on the loose.’
Armed Police, paramedics and firefighters were all said to be at the west London station within five minutes of the explosion
Merton Council Councillor Daniel Holden was on the train that exploded this morning said there are ‘quite a few people injured.’
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The company tweeted this morning: ‘We are aware of an incident at Parsons Green.
‘We have turned off dynamic pricing and will refund all journeys from the affected area. ‘
He said: ‘I was one carriage away when it happened.
‘It was like a fireball had just hit, everyone was screaming and panicking. Everyone was trying to push their way off the train.’
‘There’s hundreds of police, fire brigade and ambulance here now.’
Mr Holden said he wasn’t injured in the explosion, but saw a few people who were.
‘They’re treating a few people who look quite injured,’ he said.
Former London Mayor and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said: ‘It really is important not to spectacle at the moment, obviously everyone should keep calm and go about their lives in a normal way.
‘As far as I understand the British Transport Police and TFL are on it and will be updating their websites as and when we get information.’
Chaos on the London Underground as District Line is shut down and police confirm Parsons Green explosion was terror attack
There is chaos on the London Underground after an explosion sent a fireball cascading through a packed commuter train this morning.
Transport for London said Tube services are suspended between Earls Court and Wimbledon.
Parsons Green station in west London remains closed with members of the public being urged to avoid area after a device exploded on the rush hour train.
Police have confirmed they are treating it as a terror-related incident.
Flames engulfed one carriage and raced along a train on a west London route to Parsons Green, forcing passengers to trample others as they rushed for an exit
Horrified witnesses on social media claim there was a stampede as people were ‘screaming and running off trains’
There was a stampede as a ‘fireball flew down the carriage’, leaving several passengers with serious facial burns on the packed rush hour train in Parsons Green, west London at 8.20am.
The doors opened on the District Line train and the commuters, many of them with scorched faces and hair, ran off screaming.
Transport for London said it was ‘investigating an incident at Parsons Green’ and urged customers travelling between Wimbledon and Earls Court to use alternative routes.
There is no service on the District Line from Earls Court to Wimbledon, with severe delays from Earls Court to Edgware Road.
TfL says there are also minor delays from Ealing Broadway to Turnham Green.
London Buses, South Western and London Overground are accepting London Underground tickets via any reasonable route.
TfL said passengers are being urged to avoid Earls Court, adding it remains unclear when the line will re-open with delays expected into the evening.
Armed Police, paramedics and firefighters were all said to be at the west London station within five minutes of the explosion
Nigel Holness, London Underground’s director of network operations, said: ‘Our staff have worked to assist the emer-gency services and to ensure the safety of our customers during this morning’s incident at Parsons Green.
‘We are focussed on assisting the police investigation into what happened and providing support for our customers and staff.
‘Our Sarah Hope Line is available to offer help and support to anyone affected by this morning’s incident.’
Officers said the incident is ongoing, as police helicopters hover ahead where the suspect is thought to still be on the loose.
Counter terror police confirmed this morning the incident at Parson’s Green is being treated as a terror attack.
At the scene dozens of police and ambulances have continued to be called into the cordoned area.
A police officer told MailOnline: ‘We believe there is a second bomb, people need to stay back there is a man with knives on the loose.’
‘Come round, the kettle’s on!’ Unfazed Londoners are praised for ‘beautiful response’ to Parsons Green bucket bomb by offering to make cups of tea and opening their homes for survivors
Defiant Londoners have reached out and offered to help anyone caught up in a bomb blast which hit an underground train this morning.
People across the capital have offered to make tea and open up their homes to anyone wounded in the blast on a train at Parsons Green in west London.
Taxi drivers have also come to the aid of those affected, offering free journeys while Facebook users are inviting victims in to shelter, rest and charge their phones.
Social media awash with people offering to ‘put the kettle on’ for those affected by the Parsons Green bomb blast
Nearby taxi company Hayber Cars has offered its services free of charge, while Chelsea and Fulham Dentist, has also offered people a place to shelter.
Jan Ståhlberg tweeted: ‘Classic British response to an emergency & major incident: ‘I’ll put the kettle on’. Compassion and Communities come together.’
Anthony J Myers added: ‘Thank you to TfL staff, emergency services, security services and the Londoners of #ParsonsGreen who have offered to put the kettle on.’
Kind-hearted Debbie Clark, 57, has opened up her home on Kelvedon Road as a makeshift hospital while a police hunt is underway for the perpetrators behind the terror incident.
The mother of two woke up to hear banging at her front door from her neighbour Princess Stafford, who is deaf and mute and had been badly injured in a stampede as hundreds rushed out of the station following an explosion.
Ms Clark said: ‘I woke up to banging and she was at my door crying and distressed.’
People across the capital have offered to make tea and open up their homes to anyone wounded in the blast on a train at Parsons Green in west London
Across the road, Ms Clark said she saw three girls opposite her home, one was crying and said there were all ‘as white as a sheet’.
Taking them into her home, she gave them water and called their parents. She said: ‘they are just in shock. They said it happened so quickly, they just wanted to get out of there. One was from Sheffield, another from Surrey.’
She said: ‘I brought them all into my home, called the police and their parents. I just wanted to do something, you feel so helpless. I’ve lived here all my life and was born in Parson’s Green, you never expect something like this to happen.’
Flames engulfed one carriage and raced along a train on a west London route to Parsons Green, forcing passengers to trample others as they rushed for an exit
Armed Police, paramedics and firefighters were all said to be at the west London station within five minutes of the explosion
Her neighbour Princess is currently on Ms Clark’s balcony with two chairs creating a makeshift stretcher with a suspected leg injury.
The 32-year-old was pushed to the floor by panicked commuters this morning as she waited to board a train at Parson’s Green to take her to work.
She told MailOnline how she was knocked to the ground and trapped. She said: ‘I couldn’t move, there were people on top of me and walking over me.’
The rush was so great she was pushed back to the stairwell, she said.
With tears in her eyes, she told MailOnline how she couldn’t breathe because of the number of people passing over her.
This afternoon she waits to be taken to hospital at Ms Clark’s home. She was told by London Ambulance they could be waiting for up to four hours.
Ms Clark said: ‘They are going to send a non emergency could take two to four hours because there have been serious injuries we understand. She can’t communicate she can’t hear and talk, good job I was in I am so glad I was in for her.’
‘Stay calm and go about your lives’: Boris Johnson urges Londoners not to panic as security is ramped up across the capital
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has called on Londoners to remain calm as security is stepped up in the capital in the wake of the Parsons Green explosion.
Officers from the Metropolitan Police’s counter-terrorism command have launched an investigation following the explosion in west London during the Friday morning rush hour.
Mr Johnson says people should ‘keep calm and go about their normal lives’ as emergency services respond to the incident.
A number of commuters have been taken to hospital with serious facial burns, as police remain at the scene
Speaking this morning, government minister Boris Johnson called on people to remain calm
Mr Johnson says it would be ‘wrong to speculate’, but that police and transit authorities ‘are on it.’
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said London ‘will never be intimidated or defeated by terrorism’.
A Scotland Yard spokesman added: ‘We urge the public to remain calm but alert and if you have any concerns, see or hear anything suspicious then contact police.’
Prime Minister Theresa May is to chair a meeting of the Government’s Cobra emergencies committee this afternoon to discuss the incident.
Commuters fled in terror after the blast and witnesses reported seeing several people hurt and ‘covered in blood’ after a ‘flash and a bang’ on the District Line Tube.
Emergency services including armed police rushed to the scene and cordoned off the station.
Bomb disposal experts are among emergency services at the scene amid fears of more bombs
Transport for London said Tube services were suspended on that section of the underground
A woman walks with a young boy through west London as armed police stand guard nearby
Pictures posted on social media showed wires protruding from a flaming bucket inside a plastic carrier bag on the floor of a carriage.
The Met added: ‘It is too early to confirm the cause of the fire, which will be subject to the investigation that is now under way by the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command.’
Investigators will be scouring CCTV and taking statements from dozens of witnesses as they attempt to piece together the lead-up to the explosion.
The device will be forensically assessed after being made safe, while police will be urgently trying to establish whether someone attempted to detonate it, and whether they were present at the scene.
Heavily-armed police were drafted in to assist the investigation at Parsons Green today
Armed police boarded the train in the incident as the hunt for the bomber was stepped up
Paramedics in bullet-proof vests were guarded by armed police at the scene this morning
The scenes of panic evoked memories of the July 7 atrocities in 2005, when suicide bombers killed 52 people in a series of co-ordinated attacks across the transport network.
Two weeks later, a group of men attempted to set off rucksack devices but the bombs failed to go off.
The emergency at Parsons Green will spark another huge counter-terrorism probe as security services confront an unprecedented threat.
Four attacks – at Westminster, Manchester, London Bridge and Finsbury Park – have hit Britain already this year.
Authorities have foiled 19 plots since the middle of 2013 – including six since the Westminster atrocity in March.
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North Korea fires missile over Japan in longest-ever flight
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired an intermediate-range missile over Japan into the northern Pacific Ocean on Friday, U.S. and South Korean militaries said, its longest-ever such flight and a clear message of defiance to its rivals.
Since President Donald Trump threatened the North with “fire and fury” in August, Pyongyang has conducted its most powerful nuclear test, threatened to send missiles into the waters around Guam and launched two missiles of increasing range over U.S. ally Japan. It tested its first-ever intercontinental ballistic missiles in July.
The growing frequency, power and confidence displayed by these tests seem to confirm what governments and outside experts have long feared: North Korea is closer than ever to its goal of building a military arsenal that can viably target both U.S. troops in Asia and the U.S. homeland. This, in turn, is meant to allow North Korea greater military freedom in the region by raising doubts in Seoul and Tokyo that Washington would risk the annihilation of a U.S. city to protect its Asian allies.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missile traveled about 3,700 kilometers (2,300 miles) and reached a maximum height of 770 kilometers (478 miles).
North Korea fired an intermediate-range missile over Japan into the northern Pacific Ocean on Friday, U.S. and South Korean militaries said, its longest-ever such flight and a clear message of defiance. (Sept. 15)
North Korea has repeatedly vowed to continue these tests amid what it calls U.S. hostility — by which it means the presence of tens of thousands of U.S. troops in Japan and South Korea. Robust diplomacy on the issue has been stalled for years, and there’s little sign that senior officials from Pyongyang and Washington might sit down to discuss ways to slow the North’s determined march toward inclusion among the world’s nuclear weapons powers.
Friday’s missile, which Seoul said was the 19th ballistic missile launched by North Korea this year, triggered sirens and warning messages in northern Japan but caused no apparent damage to aircraft or ships. It was the second missile fired over Japan in less than a month. North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test on Sept. 3.
The missile was launched from Sunan, the location of Pyongyang’s international airport and the origin of the earlier missile that flew over Japan. Analysts have speculated the new test was of the same intermediate-range missile launched in that earlier flight, the Hwasong-12.
That missile is linked to North Korea’s declaration that it means to contain the U.S. Pacific island territory of Guam, which is the home of important U.S. military assets and appears well within the Hwasong-12′s range.
Friday’s missile test was met with the usual outrage. South Korean President Moon Jae-in ordered his military to conduct a live-fire ballistic missile drill in response to the North Korean launch and instructed government officials to pursue “stern” measures to discourage Pyongyang from further provocations. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said one of the two missiles fired in the drill hit a sea target about 250 kilometers (155 miles) away, which was approximately the distance to Pyongyang’s Sunan, but the other failed in flight shortly after launch.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis both called the North Korean launch a reckless act.
The U.N. Security Council scheduled an emergency closed-door meeting to be held Friday afternoon in New York. Trump has not commented.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command and the U.S. Pacific Command said the missile posed no threat to North America or to Guam.
South Korean experts have said North Korea wants to make missiles flying over Japan an accepted norm as it seeks to win more military space in a region dominated by its enemies.
North Korea initially flight-tested the Hwasong-12 and the ICBM model Hwasong-14 at highly lofted angles to reduce their range and avoid neighboring countries.
The two launches over Japan indicate North Korea is moving toward using angles close to operational to determine whether its warheads can survive the harsh conditions of atmospheric re-entry and detonate properly.
North Korea’s August launch over Japan came weeks after it threatened to fire a salvo of Hwasong-12s toward Guam and bracket the island with “enveloping” missile fire. The North’s latest launch might be an attempt to demonstrate its ability to fire a missile close to Guam, which is 3,400 kilometers (2,112 miles) away from North Korea, said Kim Dong-yub, a former South Korean military official who is now an analyst at Seoul’s Institute for Far Eastern Studies.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea leader Kim Jong Un said the country is nearing its goal of “equilibrium” in military force with the United States, as the United Nations Security Council strongly condemned the North’s “highly provocative” ballistic missile test on Friday.
The North’s official Korean Central News Agency carried Kim’s comments on Saturday – a day after U.S. and South Korean militaries detected the missile launch from the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
It traveled 3,700 kilometers (2,300 miles) as it flew over Japan before landing in the northern Pacific Ocean. It was the country’s longest-ever test flight of a ballistic missile.
The North has confirmed the missile as an intermediate range Hwasong-12, the same model launched over Japan on Aug. 29.
The KCNA said Kim expressed great satisfaction over the launch, which he said verified the “combat efficiency and reliability” of the missile and the success of efforts to increase its power.
While the English version of the report was less straightforward, the Korean version quoted Kim as declaring the missile as operationally ready. He vowed to complete his nuclear weapons program in the face of strengthening international sanctions, the agency said.
The U.N. Security Council accused North Korea of undermining regional peace and security by launching its latest missile over Japan and said its nuclear and missile tests “have caused grave security concerns around the world” and threaten all 193 U.N. member states.
Kim also said the country, despite “limitless” international sanctions, has nearly completed the building of its nuclear weapons force and called for “all-state efforts” to reach the goal and obtain a “capacity for nuclear counterattack the U.S. cannot cope with.”
“As recognized by the whole world, we have made all these achievements despite the UN sanctions that have lasted for decades,” the agency quoted Kim as saying.
Kim said the country’s final goal “is to establish the equilibrium of real force with the U.S. and make the U.S. rulers dare not talk about military option for the DPRK,” referring to North Korea’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
He indicated that more missile tests would be forthcoming, saying that all future drills should be “meaningful and practical ones for increasing the combat power of the nuclear force” to establish an order in the deployment of nuclear warheads for “actual war.”
Prior to the launches over Japan, North Korean had threatened to fire a salvo of Hwasong-12s toward Guam, the U.S. Pacific island territory and military hub the North has called an “advanced base of invasion.”
The Security Council stressed in a statement after a closed-door emergency meeting that all countries must “fully, comprehensively and immediately” implement all U.N. sanctions.
Japan’s U.N. Ambassador Koro Bessho called the missile launch an “outrageous act” that is not only a threat to Japan’s security but a threat to the world as a whole.”
Bessho and the British, French and Swedish ambassadors demanded that all sanctions be implemented.
Calling the latest launch a “terrible, egregious, illegal, provocative reckless act,” Britain’s U.N. Ambassador Matthew Rycroft said North Korea’s largest trading partners and closest links – a clear reference to China – must “demonstrate that they are doing everything in their power to implement the sanctions of the Security Council and to encourage the North Korean regime to change course.”
France’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the country is ready to work on tougher U.N. and EU measures to convince Pyongyang that there is no interest in an escalation, and to bring it to the negotiating table.
Friday’s launch followed North Korea’s sixth and most powerful nuclear test on Sept. 3 in what it described as a detonation of a thermonuclear weapon built for its developmental intercontinental ballistic missiles.
The North flight tested its Hwasong-14 ICBMs twice in July and analysts say the missiles could potentially reach deep into the U.S. mainland when perfected.
The growing frequency, power and confidence displayed by Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile tests seem to confirm what governments and outside experts have long feared: North Korea is closer than ever to its goal of building a military arsenal that can viably target U.S. troops both in Asia and in the U.S. homeland.
This, in turn, is meant to allow North Korea greater military freedom in the region by raising doubts in Seoul and Tokyo that Washington would risk the annihilation of a U.S. city to protect its Asian allies.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in, a liberal who initially pushed for talks with North Korea, said its tests currently make dialogue “impossible.”
“If North Korea provokes us or our allies, we have the strength to smash the attempt at an early stage and inflict a level of damage it would be impossible to recover from,” he said.
Robust international diplomacy on the issue has been stalled for years, and there’s so far little sign that senior officials from North Korea and the U.S. might sit down to discuss ways to slow the North’s determined march toward inclusion among the world’s nuclear weapons powers.
—
Lederer reported from the United Nations.
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To see what free speech looks like in 2017 at the birthplace of the famed movement, consider the elaborate preparations underway for a talk Thursday by a conservative writer.
Ben Shapiro isn’t nearly as controversial as some right-wing speakers who have roiled the campus over the last year.
Nonetheless, UC Berkeley has told students that counseling is available to those stressed by all the commotion. A large swath of the campus will be closed off, including the plaza where the free speech movement began in the 1960s. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been spent on security, and police now can use pepper spray on protesters after a 20-year-old ban was lifted by the City Council this week.
Shapiro’s appearance is a key test for Berkeley, which has been hit by a series of violent clashes between far-left and far-right agitators that have sparked soul-searching in this liberal community about the line between protest and criminal behavior. Berkeley has become a favorite spot for far-right demonstrators to speak out, knowing they can get attention and push buttons in enemy territory.
The Thursday event marks the start of a parade of right-wing speakers who may be coming to campus over the next month. They include former White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon and right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, who announced that they will appear as part of a “Free Speech Week” event on campus.
The event is organized by Yiannopoulos and a student group. On Tuesday, Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof stressed that this event is far from a done deal — the student group hadn’t yet satisfied the requirements for bringing a speaker or followed proper procedure.
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‘We’ve never seen a situation like this’
But UC Berkeley’s new chancellor, Carol T. Christ, has said allowing these talks is essential, trumpeting the belief that the best response to hate speech is “more speech” rather than trying to shut down others.
That leaves officials with the task of keeping the peace — and trying to keep the various warring sides under control. They hope to do it with what officials say are unprecedented security measures.
“We’ve never seen a situation like this. It’s very unique. It’s a very different political dynamic where free speech … at Berkeley has become the occasion for the right and left to confront each other,” Christ said Wednesday. “I believe very strongly in Ben Shapiro’s right to speak on campus. I don’t agree with Ben Shapiro; in fact I profoundly disagree with him. But I believe he was legitimately invited by a student group and that he has the right to speak. It’s a really troubling situation.”
City and campus officials are taking heightened steps to prevent the sort of chaos that descended on campus when Yiannopoulos tried to speak in February.
Police officers and physical barriers will be set up in a roughly half-mile-long perimeter around six campus buildings Thursday afternoon, cutting off access to Sproul Plaza, the site of Mario Savio’s famous 1964 address during the free speech movement and a common meeting ground for activists of all stripes.
In order to pass through the security perimeter, people will have to show tickets for the speech. Those who show up to protest will encounter an “increased and highly visible police presence,” Provost Paul Alivisatos said in a letter to the campus last week.
If protesters spill into the city business district south of campus, along Telegraph Avenue, they will encounter the city’s police force — which is now free to use pepper spray on individual protesters officers deem are committing acts of violence.
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Berkeley police try to keep order
Berkeley police have come under criticism for not doing enough to break up the violence that has marred past protests.
Berkeley Police Chief Andrew Greenwood successfully pitched the City Council on Tuesday to adjust a 1997 ban on the use of pepper spray as a crowd-control technique.
Greenwood argued that police needed another tool — besides batons and tear gas — to deal with the violence that has come with the new wave of protests.
Councilwoman Linda Maio, who voted for the measure, agreed, citing the prospects of large protests if Yiannopoulos and Bannon come to campus in the coming weeks.
“This is a new phenomenon that is evolving, and we really don’t know what to expect,” she said of the protests over the last few months.
On Wednesday, the city also announced it was banning a wide range of weapons, including bricks, Mace and dynamite in a square-mile area centered around UC Berkeley’s campus.
Since the election, Berkeley residents have seen months of clashes between activists on the left who employ black-bloc militant tactics and once-obscure far-right organizations such as the Proud Boys and the Fraternal Order of Alt-Knights.
The skirmishes have resulted in thousands of dollars of property damage in Berkeley and a handful of criminal charges.
The situation at Berkeley on Thursday will be a far cry from Shapiro’s visit to the campus in April 2016.
Shapiro was met with little, if any, controversy then. The website he edits, the Daily Wire, wrote at the time that “the audience at Berkeley was civil and polite, perhaps more so than any other university Shapiro has visited in the last few weeks.”
The month before that speech, Shapiro resigned from the Bannon-led BreitbartNews after a colleague of his accused then-Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski of assaulting her.
“Steve Bannon is a bully, and has sold out Andrew [Breitbart]’s mission in order to back another bully, Donald Trump; he has shaped the company into Trump’s personal Pravda,” Shapiro wrote in a statement at the time.
During the election, his lashing critiques of Trump made him one of the more prominent opponents of the then-Republican nominee in the conservative movement.
This opposition to candidate Trump also made him the target of anti-Semitic harassment. The Anti-Defamation League released a report last fall detailing anti-Semitic harassment of journalists on Twitter during the first half of the 2016 election cycle. It found Shapiro to be the No. 1 target.
Shapiro was frustrated by a Berkeley decision earlier this month to shrink the number of seats in the audience for his address. Fitting in with a broader critique he’s offered in his writing, Shapiro also ridiculed the idea that anyone would need to seek counseling because he was speaking.
“As far as them ensuring that I have a venue trying to make sure that it’s secure, I’m not sure all of what they’re doing makes sense, but I’m appreciative that they’re at least trying,” Shapiro said.
“It’s very easy to get kids riled up by doing the shtick Yiannopoulos does, but that’s not my game, and it’s always why the comparisons are weird for me.”
It is unclear what level of protests will greet Shapiro.
Organizers with the group RefuseFacism.org were busy on campus Wednesday handing out fliers promoting a demonstration against Shapiro set for Thursday evening.
At Tuesday’s packed City Council meeting, Raphael Kadaris, an organizer with the group, drew loud applause from the audience when he said the council members were acting as “collaborators” with what he claims is a growing fascist movement in the nation for allowing the police use of pepper spray.
“These people don’t care about free speech,” he said, referring to the conservative speakers coming to campus. “They are using free speech as a pretext to get a foothold, to normalize fascism on these college campuses and to recruit a new generation of fascist youth into their movement.”
Christ said Wednesday the challenge is to protect free speech in this charged environment.
“I think we’re in an area which presents both challenges to the law and challenges to university policy when a speaker occasions the university to first of all spend extraordinary amounts of money and take extraordinary measures that are quite disruptive to the university’s main business in order to protect the right of free speech.”
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Breaking Story 1: Radical Islamic Terrorist Attack — Improvised Bucket Bomb Device Explodes In United Kingdom Parson Green Tube Train Station in West London During Morning Rush Hour — 29 Injured None Seriously including Children — Threat Level Raised From Severe To Critical By Prime Minister May — Videos —
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Parsons Green attack: Police raid in west London as 18-year-old man arrested in Dover – latest news
Detectives investigating the terrorist attack at Parsons Green have made a “significant” arrest in connection with the attempted bombing.
The 18-year-old man was arrested by Kent Police in the port area of Dover on Saturday morning under section 41 of the Terrorism Act.
He remains in custody at a local police station from where he will be transferred to a south London police station.
“The public should remain vigilant as our staff, officers and partners continue to work through this complex investigation. We are not, at this time, changing our protective security measures and the steps taken to free up extra armed officers remain in place.
“This arrest will lead to more activity from our officers. For strong investigative reasons we will not give any more details on the man we arrested at this stage.”
The development came after Prime Minister ordered troops onto the streets on Friday night after a suspected Islamist placed a powerful time bomb on a packed rush hour train heading towards Westminster.
Theresa May took the decision after the independent Joint Terrorism Assessment Centre (JTAC) recommended raising the terror threat to its highest level, Critical, meaning another attack is expected.
The army will deploy troops at key locations around the capital in order to free up police who were last night involved in a huge manhunt to catch the terrorist responsible for the failed Parsons Green bomb attack, which Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed responsibility.
At least 29 people were injured, including a boy believed to be aged about 10 when an improvised explosive device (IED) went off on a packed rush hour tube at Parsons Green in west London yesterday morning.
Witnesses described scenes of terror and panic after the blast sent a “fireball” and a “wall of flame” through a District line service in west London.
Anti-terror police are understood to be working on the theory that the bomb was detonated early by accident and that the intended target may have been the Tube station at Westminster.
Detectives have so far spoken to 45 witnesses and continue to receive information from the public to the confidential anti-terrorist hotline.
The public has sent 77 images and videos to investigators via the UK Police Image Appeal website.
Detectives from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command are continuing to urge anyone with information about the terrorist attack to contact police.
The attack – the fifth terrorist attack on the UK in just six months – caused a diplomatic row between Washington and London.
Donald Trump seemed to accuse the Metropolitan Police of knowing the identity of the attacker in advance but failing to prevent the bombing. Mr Trump posted on Twitter: “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!”
His claim earned the US President a stiff rebuke from Theresa May. “I never think it’s helpful for anybody to speculate on what is an ongoing investigation,” said the prime minister. “The police and security services are working to discover the full circumstances of this cowardly attack and to identify all those responsible.”
Despite Mr Trump’s suggestion that the terrorist was known to police, counter-terrorism sources insisted that was not the case and that the hunt for the perpetrator of the bombing on a District Line train was ongoing.
Counter terrorism specialists from Scotland Yard were last night working to establish his identity from CCTV footage on the train and at stations on the line. They were also combing through records of payments with Oyster cards used to buy Tube tickets.
One theory is the suspected bomber may have fled the scene among the stampede of panicking passengers and escaped among the crowds.
They were also uncertain that Parsons Green was not the planned target, pointing to reports that the bomb, which was packed with shrapnel and contained a timing device, had apparently malfunctioned.
Witnesses reported seeing people “covered in blood” after a “flash and a bang” from the device, but sent a “fireball” through the packed Tube train.
Pictures and video posted on social media showed a flaming bucket – which appeared to have wires coming from it – inside a Lidl carrier bag on the floor of a carriage.
The device is not believed to have fully detonated and it is reported that it could have been set off on a timer.
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Residents evacuated at Sunbury address
The Met Police said police officers had evacuated and were searching a residential address in Sunbury-on-Thames.
Scotland Yard said: “The evacuation is a precautionary measure following the arrest of a man in Dover, Kent, at approximately 07:50hrs this morning in connection with the investigation into the terrorist attack at Parsons Green Underground Station on Friday, 16 September.
Officers began evacuating the address at approximately 13:40hrs today.
Residents in the buildings immediately surrounding the address are also being evacuated as a precautionary measure.
Cordons are being put in place at a 100 metre radius to facilitate the Metropolitan Police Service’s operation, which is being supported by colleagues from Surrey Police.
A search of the address is ongoing and the cordons will remain in place until the operation is complete.
Police would like to thank the local residents directly affected for their cooperation and patience. Local officers are on duty in the immediate area to talk to the community and address any concerns that they may have.
No further arrests have been made.”
Police cordon set up after officers raid house in Sunbury-on-Thames
Armed police raid west London address
Police investigating the Parsons Green bombing carried out a raid on an address in Sunbury-on-Thames, close to the start of the M3 in west London, on Saturday afternoon.
Residents described a house in Cavendish Road being evacuated by armed officers. Others reported bomb squad vehicles arriving as armed officers moved in.
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Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick says London “will not stop”
London will not be stopped by terror, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick has said as she highlighted an increased visible police presence on the capital’s streets.
Ms Dick spoke as she joined officers on some of the city’s busiest streets, travelling on the Tube to Waterloo Station and patrolling the tourist hot spot of the South Bank
She said: “London has not stopped after other terrible attacks and it will not stop after this one.”
The Commissioner said the public should feel “utterly reassured” by the presence of police.
Met chief says London “will not stop”
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She said: “I’ve been out and about today. The public seem to be very positive about the number of officers that we have.”
She added: “The great thing about London is that we don’t give in, we don’t give in to terrorists – we never have and we carry on.
“So the transport system is running just as it ever did and the events are going ahead today. People are out and about. I’ve spoken to lots of people, Londoners and tourists and business people. People are here and I would say, carry on about your business and secondly, of course, be vigilant.”
She added: “My main message is London is carrying on. Carry on with your business but be alert, don’t be alarmed but make sure you tell us anything that worries you.”
Scenes from Saturday morning
Armed police are making their presence felt in the capital following the news last night that Prime Minister Theresa May had raised the UK terror threat level to critical.
Meanwhile, Tube passengers have been returning to Parsons Green.
Scotland Yard describe the arrest as “significant”
The 18-year-old was arrested by Kent Police in the port area of Dover under section 41 of the Terrorism Act.
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, Senior National Co-ordinator for Counter Terrorism Policing, said: “We have made a significant arrest in our investigation this morning. Although we are pleased with the progress made, this investigation continues and the threat level remains at critical.
“The public should remain vigilant as our staff, officers and partners continue to work through this complex investigation. We are not, at this time, changing our protective security measures and the steps taken to free up extra armed officers remain in place.
“This arrest will lead to more activity from our officers. For strong investigative reasons we will not give any more details on the man we arrested at this stage.”
18-year-old arrested in Dover over London bombing
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Man, 18, arrested in Dover
An 18-year-old man has been arrested in the Dover area under the Prevention of Terrorism Act in connection with the Parsons Green station bombing.
More information to follow as we receive it.
Tightened security ahead of Chelsea v Arsenal game
In a statement, Chelsea said: “Following Friday morning’s incident at Parsons Green, and in order to help us fully prepare for the game, the majority of the Stamford Bridge site will remain closed until Sunday morning.
“This includes Stadium Tours, the Museum, Megastore and the Chelsea Health Club & Spa, while the ticket office will be operating via telephone and online only.
“During that time, entrance to the site will be via the Stamford Gate entrance only. On Sunday, we urge supporters to arrive at least one hour before kick-off to allow for extra security measures.
“We also request that supporters do not bring bags as this will delay your entry to the stadium. The club continues to monitor events and liaise with the police and relevant authorities on supporter safety.”
Trump under fire in US over London bombing comments
Ben Cardin, a Democratic member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, backed Theresa May in her rebuke of Donald Trump over the London bombing David Millward reports.
“I think the Prime Minister of the UK was appropriate in calling the president out.”
John Cohen, former US counterterrorism official and now a professor at Rutgers University, also believed Mr Trump’s intervention was unhelpful.
“At this stage investigators are going to be doing everything they can to locate those involved in the attack, and in particular the bomb maker,” he told the New York Times.
“These types of statements — at this stage of the investigation — can undermine law enforcement efforts because it discloses key information that the investigators may be using to locate the attackers, and it could put peoples’ lives at risk.”
Bomb ‘highly likely’ to be TATP – CNN
A source briefed by investigators told CNN that an initial assessment of the device indicates it is “highly likely” to have contained the explosive TATP but that this has not been confirmed. It also appeared to have been crude and poorly designed, the source said.
‘Excellent progress’ made in hunt for terrorist, police say
Met Assistant Commissioner, Mark Rowley, said the police were making “excellent progress” in the hunt for the terrorist.
He said officers were trawling through hundreds of hours of CCTV footage and 77 images and videos taken by members of the public at the scene were also being examined.
Mr Rowley said the IED had now been made safe and was being examined by specialist forensic scientists.
Threat level raised to ‘critical’
The UK’s terror threat level has been raised from severe to critical, indicating a further attack may be imminent, following the Parsons Green Tube bomb, Prime Minister Theresa May said.
Army troops will be assisting the police with their duties, freeing up officers to continue their investigation into the attack.
Islamic State claims responsibility for the attack
The Islamic State terror group has claimed responsibility for the attack, according to the Amaq news agency which has links to the group.
White House defends Trump’s comments on Parsons Green attack
Mr McMaster was asked about Donald Trump’s comments this morning, in which he said the suspect of the bombing was “in the sights” of Scotland Yard.
Theresa May called that speculation “unhelpful”.
Mr McMaster said he thought the president was speaking in general terms, and did not have any specific information.
He said: “I think what the president was communicating was that all our law enforcement efforts are focused on this threat for years.
“Scotland Yard is a leader in this, and if it happened here in the US the FBI would also have the suspect in their sights.
“I think he means generally this kind of activity is what we are trying to prevent.”
President Trump calls for renewed effort to cut terror funding
H.R. McMaster, Donald Trump’s national security adviser, has just spoken about the Parsons Green attack in the White House, Harriet Alexander reports.
He said: “The US stands in solidarity with the people of the UK.
“We will defend our people and our values against these cowardly attacks, and we will always stand by countries who do the same.”
He said Mr Trump had been “unambiguous” in his policy on terrorism, urging a renewed effort at cutting financing for terrorist networks.
President Trump speaks to PM to express sympathy
The White House press secretary has revealed details of the phone call between Donald Trump and Theresa May. The US president phoned to “convey his sympathies and prayers for those injured in the terrorist attack today in London”, the White House said.
“The President pledged to continue close collaboration with the United Kingdom to stop attacks worldwide targeting innocent civilians and to combat extremism. ”
A Downing Street spokesman said: “President Trump called the Prime Minister earlier today to offer his condolences over this morning’s cowardly attack in London.
“They also discussed North Korea’s latest missile test, agreeing it was a reckless provocation and that China must now use all its leverage to bring pressure to bear on the North Korean regime to ensure they change course and end these illegal tests.”
Number of injured rises to 29
NHS England says 29 people have been treated after the explosion at Parsons Green tube station.
As of 5.30pm on Friday, NHS England said it was now treating 21 patients.
Eight others were discharged earlier in the day.
Soldiers on the streets and extra armed police on patrol as Theresa May raises terror level to CRITICAL after ISIS claim Tube bucket-bomb attack was carried out by a cell of several jihadis
By Martin Robinson, Uk Chief Reporter and Richard Spillett, Crime Correspondent and Amie Gordon and Katie French and Rory Tingle For Mailonline
PUBLISHED: 03:41 EDT, 15 September 2017 | UPDATED: 18:39 EDT, 15 September 2017
Soldiers are being deployed on London’s streets as the terror threat level is raised to critical amid fears the Parsons Green bomber could strike again, Theresa May announced tonight.
Operation Temperer will see military personnel replacing police at key sites such as nuclear power plants to free up extra armed officers for regular patrols.
Scotland Yard said it is making ‘excellent’ progress in hunting the suspected terrorist who set off an improvised bucket bomb on a packed commuter train by Parsons Green tube station in west London at 8.20am.
Mrs May said in a statement from Number 10: ‘The Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre has now decided to raise the national threat level from severe to critical – this means their assessment is that a further attack may be imminent.’
Minutes later Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley suggested there may have been more than one person involved stating that police were ‘chasing down suspects’.
Police identified the suspected terrorist using CCTV but the investigation has been overshadowed by an extraordinary diplomatic row triggered by Donald Trump
The US President tweeted just hours after the rush hour blast that police had the attacker ‘in their sights’ and should have been ‘more proactive’ in catching ‘the loser’.
Scotland Yard hit back and said Mr Trump’s comments were ‘pure speculation’ while senior officers refused to name the suspect.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack tonight, saying its ‘soldiers’ had ‘planted IEDs’.
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As Britain faced its fifth terror attack in a year it has emerged:
The crude bucket bomb – which had a timer – went off at 8.20am inside a tube train packed with commuters, including children and a pregnant woman.
The device was hidden in a builder’s bucket and could have killed dozens but failed to properly detonate and sent a ‘wall of fire’ through the carriage at Parsons Green injuring at least 29 people.
Terrified passengers were seen covered in blood with scorched hands, legs, faces and hair – others suffered crush injuries during a stampede as they ‘ran for their lives’ over fears the ‘train would blow up’.
London Ambulance took 19 patients to hospitals, while the others went in themselves. The four hospitals dealing with patients were Imperial, Chelsea and Westminster, Guy’s and St Thomas’ and St George’s.
Officers are hunting for the bomber across London amid claims he could be armed and may have planted other explosive devices.
An officer at the scene told MailOnline: ‘We believe there is a second bomb – there is a man with knives on the loose.’
Theresa May raises terror threat level to its highest possible
Mrs May said in a statement from Number 10 –
‘The Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre has now decided to raise the national threat level from severe to critical – this means their assessment is that a further attack may be imminent.
‘The public will see more armed police on the transport network and on our streets, providing extra protection.
‘This is a proportionate and sensible step which will provide extra reassurance and protection while the investigation progresses.’
In a pre-recorded television statement, May said military personnel would replace police officers ‘on guard duties at certain protected sites which are not accessible to the public’.
She said: ‘The public will see more armed police on the transport network and on our streets, providing extra protection.
‘This is a proportionate and sensible step which will provide extra reassurance and protection while the investigation progresses.’
Speaking moments afterwards, Assistant Commissioner Mike Rowley said: ‘We are making excellent progress at the moment as we pursue our lines of inquiry to identify, locate and arrest those responsible.
‘We have hundreds of police officers trawling through CCTV footage, detectives have spoken to tens of witnesses and we have taken a large number of calls to the hotline… for members of the public.
‘Indeed members of the public have sent in so far 77 images and videos of the scene which they have sent in to our appeal website and these are now being assessed for evidential value.’
Mr Rowley said he was only aware of one device, and the remnants of that device are being examined by experts.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan told LBC radio ‘there is a manhunt under way as we speak’ and there have been no arrests.
ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack this evening through its Amaq News Agency, saying its ‘soldiers planted IEDs’. However, the group has often made false claims in the past.
Photographs show what experts believe is a ‘unsophisticated’ bomb in a flaming white bucket inside a Lidl freezer bag with Christmas lights protruding from the top – a type of fuse encouraged by ISIS in its online manuals.
Donald Trump tweeted just hours after the rush hour blast that police had the attacker ‘in their sights’ and should have been ‘more proactive’ in catching ‘the loser’.
Scotland Yard hit back and said Mr Trump’s comments were ‘pure speculation’ while senior officers refused to name the suspect.
Mrs May also hit out at the President’s tweet, calling it ‘unhelpful’, and has this evening discussed the intelligence sharing between the two countries with the President in a telephone call.
This image was taken from the platform in the minutes after the terror attack and it remained alight until the fire service arrived
Luke Warsmey said: ‘The explosion was like a large match going off at the end of the carriage. People just started sprinting. It was every man for himself when that happened. The burn victims had severe leg injuries.
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The failure of the Metropolitan Police to name the suspect contrasts sharply with the response to the last major terror attack in Europe, Barcelona in August.
Just over an hour after the attack took place, Spanish police tweeted the public to say they were searching for the attacker and to avoid the area.
Then, three hours after the attack, a photo of a suspect, Driss Oukabir, was released and circulated online.
The release of the image caused Oukabir to come forward to his local police and tell officers his documents had been stolen.
This was again revealed to the media as Oukabir’s younger brother Moussa became the prime suspect.
‘It was a very busy commuter train, young and old, school children going to their schools. I saw was nannies trying to look for kids, because of the rush of people just taking five and six year olds away from them and they were trying to look for them.
‘There were lots of injuries from people being trampled on and everyone who had been close to it had the same burns to their head.’
Prime Minister Theresa May chaired a meeting of the Government’s Cobra emergencies committee this afternoon to discuss the terrorist attack.
Mrs May later appealed to any members of the public with images of the incident to pass them to the police.
Armed Police, paramedics and firefighters were all said to be at the west London station within five minutes of the explosion today.
A 100 yard cordon was erected around the station and a police helicopter was also overhead.
The Met confirmed it was a terrorist attack around 40 minutes later.
Scotland Yard said the area surrounding Parsons Green Tube station has been evacuated so specialist officers could ‘secure the remnants of the improvised device and ensure it is stable’.
NHS England said 29 patients in total were being treated at Imperial, Chelsea and Westminster, Guy’s and St Thomas’ and the Central London Community Healthcare Urgent Care Centre. Of these 18 were taken by ambulance and four self-presented.
In the aftermath armed police swooped from the SO-15 counter-terrorism unit performed a hard-stop on a bus in nearby Chelsea Bridge Road. The call was linked to the terror attack but nothing suspicious was found on board.
A team of paramedics walk towards the station to treat victims and St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington have declared an emergency
‘There were people lying underneath getting crushed, a big human pile-on. I wedged myself in next to a railing. I put myself in the foetal position. I kept thinking, ‘I’ll be ok, I’ll be ok’.
‘There was a pregnant woman underneath me, and I was trying really hard not to crush her.’
Lidl will help police after their bag was used to house bomb
Supermarket Lidl has offered to assist a police investigation into the terrorist incident on the London Underground, after one of its bags was apparently used to hold the improvised bomb.
The German-owned grocery chain issued a statement just hours after social media photos of the affected District Line carriage showed a still-burning bucket inside a Lidl-branded reusable bag.
‘We are shocked and concerned to have learned of an incident at Parsons Green this morning and our thoughts are with those affected,’ Lidl UK said.
‘We will, of course, support the authorities should they need our assistance in their investigations. We are closely monitoring the situation as it develops over the course of the day.’
A spokesman for the supermarket also confirmed that what seemed to be an insensitive tweet, purportedly sent out by Lidl UK’s twitter account on Friday morning, was fake.
Twitter user @jesuiscanard appeared to retweet a Lidl UK tweet from 10:32am which read: ‘We are proud to officially have the strongest bags. Great value for just 10p.’
Richard Aylmer-Hall told Sky News: ‘There were a few crush injuries on the stairs. People got squashed and crushed going down the stairs. Police evacuated everyone from the scene pretty quickly.
‘There was screaming, pushing and shoving – it was a like there was a terrorist on the loose with a gun or something – lots of people were in tears. When it was all over lots of people were being comforted and looked after. It was total chaotic panic.
‘A lady who had been on the same carriage as the device described it going off – a puff of smoke and flames coming out of it.’
Couple Lucy, 24 and Fabin, 29, were on their way to work when the explosion happened.
Lucy, who works in PR, said: ‘We just heard screaming and sprinting, there was a stampede on the stairs and people were falling over, there was a schoolboy being lifted up after he had fallen down, he was in his school uniform, he must have been about ten, he was crying and distressed.’
Fulham fitness instructor Niyi Shokunbi, 24, was in the next carriage the moment the bomb went off.
He told MailOnline: ‘I have never seen anything like it was like something out of a film. I thought it was an acid attack. It happened like bang within ten seconds, i just wanted to run.
‘I went towards the carriage where the bomb went off a woman said you don’t want to go in there. I saw a little boy with scratches on his face crying for his brother. A woman was bleeding. Everyone was running. I’ve never seen anything like it.’
People suffered burns from the explosion and others were hurt in the crush as people fled.
Rob Partinton, 24, from Harrow told MailOnline: ‘We were literally about two minutes from Parsons Green when the train suddenly stopped.
‘I saw people running on the track opposite direction towards Fulham Broadway, I could hear no screams but a lot of people running. We’ve been held at the station for the last half an hour. It’s pretty busy, a lot of police around and police dogs.’
Another witness, Sham, said he saw a man with blood all over his face. ‘There were loads of people crying and shaking,’ he told 5 live.
‘There were a lot of people limping and covered in blood. One guy I saw, his face was covered in blood – I’ve never seen anything like it.’
An injured man is helped into an ambulance – one of 18 ferried by ambulance to hospitals across London. Four others went to A&E themselves
Specialist armed anti-terror units also swamped the area.
Fairy lights have been used as detonators by extremist bombers before
Pictures of the apparent home-made bomb seen after the explosion show a Lidl coolbag with a large paint tub inside and a string of Christmas tree lights hanging over the top.
If the device does turn out to be a terrorist bomb, it would not be the first time extremists have used so-called ‘fairy lights’ to build a device.
In May this year, a radicalised former doorman Zahid Hussain was found to have built an explosive device in his bedroom with fairy lights, shrapnel and a pressure cooker.
He is said to have researched bomb-making techniques online, with police finding a wealth of notes and instructions at his home in Birmingham when he was arrested in 2015.
Chief Superintendent Matt Ward, of West Midlands Police, said of Hussain’s bomb at the time: ‘Forensic examination of the pressure cooker found it contained mixed urea, nails, drills bits, nuts, bolts, steel sockets and diesel fuel.
‘The Christmas tree lights also found at his address had been adapted so each one could be used as an explosive initiator or detonator.
‘Examination of his computer discovered browsing history relating to terrorism including bomb making and bomb blast injuries, showing he had a consistent and continued interest in
Chris Wildish, who was on the train, said he saw a ‘device’ in the last carriage.
‘It was a white bucket, a builder’s bucket, in a white Aldi bag or Lidl bag,’ he told 5live.
‘Flames were still coming out of it when I saw it and had a lot of wires hanging out of it – I can only assume it was done on purpose.
‘It was standing against the door of the rear-most carriage.’
Chris Wildish, who was on the train, said he saw a ‘device’ in the last carriage.
‘It was a white bucket, a builder’s bucket, in a white Aldi bag or Lidl bag,’ he told 5live.
‘Flames were still coming out of it when I saw it and had a lot of wires hanging out of it’.
Sylvain Pennec, a software developer from Southfields, near Wimbledon, was around 10 metres from the source of the explosion when fire filled the carriage.
‘I heard a boom and when I looked there were flames all around,’ he said. ‘People started to run but we were lucky to be stopping at Parsons Green as the door started to open.’
He described the scene of panic as commuters struggled to escape the carriage, ‘collapsing and pushing’ each other.
Mr Pennec stayed behind to take a closer look at what he believed was the source of the explosion.
‘It looked like a bucket of mayonnaise,’ he said. ‘I’m not sure if it was a chemical reaction or something else, but it looked homemade. I’m not an expert though.’
Passengers on the train behind the affected Tube witnessed terrified passengers sprinting away up the tracks.
They were then held in their train for over an hour before being evacuated on to the tracks themselves.
Nicole Linnell, 29, who works for a fashion label, said: ‘We saw people running down the tracks. About 30 or 40 people.
‘They were running down the tracks outside our train.
‘It was absolutely terrifying. Running on the tracks is the last thing you want to do so we were like ‘What’s going on?’
‘After about an hour we were evacuated off the train on to the tracks. About 10 to 15 people at a time.’
Melanie Heyside had been at a gym nearby and intended to get on a District Line train to go to work.
She told Sky News: ‘I just was about to open the doors to leave the studio and then all of a sudden Swat cars completely stormed and blocked the street and police jumped out with their armour and were telling people to ‘move, to move’.
‘So I was inside with a group of other people and we weren’t really sure what to do.’
She said they were told to leave the area, which she added was populated by schoolchildren and others going to work, as quickly as possible.
Lady Margaret’s School, next to Parson’s Green tube station, has put an alert out to concerned parents to say all children are okay and there are no absences.
‘Crude’ bucket bomb made with fairy lights could have killed DOZENS say experts as police reveal 21/7-style device failed to properly detonate
Explosives experts say the Parsons Green bomb could have killed dozens if it had properly detonated at rush-hour this morning.
Anti-terror police are now examining the bucket bomb which failed to fully go off on a tube train in west London as they try to track down the bomber.
Photos of the explosive show a large builder’s tub – believed be packed with explosives – inside a Lidl coolbag, with a string of Christmas tree lights, thought to have been a crude detonator, hanging over the top.
Officers compared the device to those used in the failed 21/7 bombings, in which jihadis attempted to blow up tube trains. In that case, the bombs’ detonators went off but the explosives themselves were not ignited.
ISIS have encouraged followers to use the lights in bomb guides they post online, but the terror group have yet to claim responsibility for the attack.
A timer is understood to have been found on the device, suggesting the terrorist left it on board the train and then got off. It also suggests it was intended to go off at busier stations further down the line.
Terror expert Will Geddes said: ‘My suspicion is that Parsons Green was not the intended target.
‘Unless a person knows it, it is not going to mean a great deal to you – if it was Paddington or Notting Hill, they are internationally recognised names.’
‘I think it was more a premature detonation than anything else. This could have been a lot worse. It could have killed a significant number of people.’
Others say the bomb probably didn’t detonated properly because it was badly made.
Explosives expert Dr Sidney Alford told MailOnline: ‘The fact that an initial bang was heard but the bomb did not even shatter the plastic bucket it was contained in suggests to me this could have been hydrogen peroxide.
‘I can rule out other types of explosives as if the initial bang was heard with those they would have gone off completely and destroyed the bucket.’
Dr Alford said the bomb properly did not go off because it was poorly designed.
Witnesses reported a ‘strong, acrid chemical smell’ in the carriage after the explosion.
Major General Chip Chapman told Sky News: ‘This doesn’t look like a high-end explosive from ISIS such as TATP (triacetone triperoxide) or, if it was, it failed significantly, the booster or detonator didn’t go off.’
‘That said of course, the most devastating land-based terror attack in Europe, in Madrid, had a similar modus operandi.’
He added: ‘It’s not a high explosive that functioned because the blast and shockwave would have killed multiple people.’
Former Army bomb squad expert Chris Hunter told the channel the pictures reminded him of the devices which failed to go off during botched the 21/7 attacks.
In that instance, a group of Islamic terrorists planned to carry out a copy-cat attack to 7/7, but although the detonator part of the bombs went off, they did not ignite the explosives and only one person was injured.
Examining the image of the bomb, chemical weapons expert Hamish de Bretton-Gordon told MailOnline: ‘It looks pretty unsophisticated.
‘It could be an incendiary device with some sort of detonator in a big white plastic bucket, perhaps with some sort of chemical like ammonia nitrate, fertiliser bomb to cause an explosion.’
He said the attack looked like ‘classic jihadi terrorism’ and the bomb could have been ‘devastating’ if it had detonated properly.
Mr de Bretton-Gordon said the attack would raise further questions over whether the sale of certain chemicals should be more heavily regulated.’
Describing the device, witness Sylvain Pennec said: ‘It looked like a bucket of mayonnaise. I’m not sure if it was a chemical reaction or something else, but it looked home made.’
It is not be the first time extremists have used so-called them to build a device.
In May this year, a radicalised former doorman Zahid Hussain was found to have built an explosive device in his bedroom with fairy lights, shrapnel and a pressure cooker.
He is said to have researched bomb-making techniques online, with police finding a wealth of notes and instructions at his home in Birmingham when he was arrested in 2015.
Similarities between the device and that used in the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 have also been drawn.
In that case, timers were also used to allow the bombers to get away. However, in that case the explosives were in a pressure cooker.
Police at the scene are keeping people away, moving them up Fulham Road and away from the station
A London Fire Brigade spokeswoman said: ‘We were called at 8.21am and we have information there was a fire on a train eastbound at the platform at Parsons Green’
May confronts Trump in a direct phone call after the US President sparked a diplomatic row by claiming Scotland Yard had the Parsons Green bomber ‘in their sights’ before the terror attack
Theresa May today confronted Donald Trump to vent her anger after he claimed Scotland Yard had the Parsons Green bomber ‘in their sights’ before the attack.
The US President sparked a major diplomatic row by suggesting British police knew the extremist behind the bucket bomb in the second major intelligence sharing breach in just five months.
Both Mrs May and the Met Police reacted with fury to the intervention slamming Mr Trump for speculating about the fast moving terror investigation.
And in a direct call with the US leader late this afternoon, the Prime Minister raised her concerns over the comment directly with him.
The row is a revival of damaging split between London and Washington in May when shared intelligence about the Manchester bombing was handed to US media.
In a brief statement after the call a Downing Street spokeswoman said: ‘President Trump called the Prime Minister earlier today to offer his condolences over this morning’s cowardly attack in London.’
The White House said Mr Trump ‘pledged to continue close collaboration with the United Kingdom to stop attacks worldwide targeting innocent civilians and to combat extremism’.
Mr Trump sparked a furious reaction from British police and politicians after he wrote on Twitter: ‘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!’
Angry MPs told the Mail Online his careless words risked endangering the crucial manhunt to find the extremist behind the attack.
After risking a new diplomatic row with Britain, Mr Trump insisted he had been briefed on intelligence about the attack and called Mrs May.
But in an afternoon press briefing, US National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster insisted that Trump wasn’t conveying information about Friday’s attack in particular.
‘I think what the president was communicating is that obviously all of our law enforcement efforts are focused on this terrorist threat from, you know – for years,’ McMaster told reporters at the White House. ‘Scotland Yard has been a leader, as our FBI has been a leader.’
‘So I think if there was a terrorist attack here, God forbid, that we would say that they were in the sights of the FBI. So I think he didn’t mean anything beyond that. … I think he means generally that this kind of activity is what we’re trying to prevent. And so these organizations that are responsible for it, whatever comes out of this investigation that remains to be seen, it is likely that law enforcement had been orking on that problem set.’
Mr Trump’s initial Tweets came at almost exactly the same time as Met Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley gave an initial update on the attack in a TV statement.
Standard UK police procedure in the aftermath of any terror attack is to keep the identity of any suspects confidential. The tactic allows rapid arrests to be carried out without alerting the prime suspect or their family and friends.
Mr Trump’s used today’s tirade to promote his plans for a travel crackdown on Muslims wanting to visit the United States.
Speaking from Downing Street after chairing a meeting of the Government’s emergency ‘Cobra’ committee, Mrs May said: ‘I never think it’s helpful for anybody to speculate on what is an ongoing investigation.’
A Met Police spokesman said: ‘The comments are unhelpful and pure speculation.
‘If anyone has got any evidence or information, please contact the anti-terrorism hotline.’
Trump added: ‘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!’
The force declined to give details when asked by MailOnline if they had a suspect, evidence of a wider plot or if any suspect was seen on CCTV.
Liberal Democrat home affairs Sir Ed Davey told MailOnline Mr Trump could undermine the police investigation
He said: ‘It is insulting to the victims of this attack that Donald Trump is already using it to try and further his divisive political agenda.
‘Once again, Trump has shown he is not fit for the office of US President.’
Labour MP Stephen Doughty, a member of the Home Affairs Select Committee, told the MailOnline the President should not have intervened.
He said: ‘The full focus must be on allowing the police and security services to do their job, and those responding at the scene to the emergency and tending to those injured.’
Mr Doughty warned the United States was endangering the special relationship by interfering in British investigations.
He said: ‘It has the potential to not only undermine a vital relationship, but also to prejudice investigations into this and other incidents.’
Theresa May’s former adviser Nick Timothy reacted to Trump’s intervention by saying the president ‘doesn’t know’ anything: ‘This is so unhelpful from leader of our ally and intelligence partner’
Mr Doughty said it is ‘obviously not the first time’ key pieces of information about a terror attack have been leaked by the US, after details of the Manchester bombing investigation were printed in American newspapers.
Mr Timothy tweeted: ‘True or not – and I’m sure he doesn’t know – this is so unhelpful from leader of our ally and intelligence partner.’
London Mayor Sadiq Khan – who has clashed publicly with Mr Trump before over London terrorism – told LBC today he had not seen the tweets but insisted the focus must be on allowing the police to get on with their job.
He said: ‘What is important is cool, calm heads are heard now.’
Mr Trump’s tweets could reignite the diplomatic row between the UK and the US over the leaking of sensitive police information.
In May the UK police temporarily stopping sharing intelligence about the terror investigation with America over a series of leaks about the Manchester bombing.
The president linked Friday’s attack to his controversial travel ban, saying it ‘should be far larger, tougher and more specific – but stupidly, that would not be politically correct!’
He also drew attention to the military action against ISIS and should the US should get ‘nasty’
It is understood American law enforcement agencies had the pictures for only a matter of hours before they were handed to a journalist from the New York Times.
The leak was the way Britons discovered the identity of the bomber Salman Abedi. Greater Manchester Police did not confirm his name until later.
At the time, Mrs May warned continued leaking would undermine the special relationship.
She told reporters the ties between Britain and America was the ‘deepest defense and security partnership that we have’ but she warned it was ‘built on trust’.
‘Part of that trust is knowing that intelligence can be shared confidently and I will be making clear to President Trump today that intelligence that is shared between law enforcement agencies must remain secure,’ she added.
The latest version of Trump’s travel ban, initially announced in a botched late-January rollout, calls for a ban on people entering the U.S. from six terror-prone countries that are also Muslim-majority nations.
It also bars the entry of most refugees from anywhere in the world.
Federal court challenges have resulted in exceptions being made for travelers who already have established ties to the U.S., including a broad definition of what counts as a close family member.
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to hear oral arguments to decide the ban’s constitutionality in October, but allowed it to go into effect last month while the case is pending.
Timeline of terror: Parsons Green train bombing is FIFTH attack to hit Britain in 2017
March 22: Five people are killed in a car and knife attack in Westminster.
Khalid Masood drove a hire car over Westminster Bridge, near the Houses of Parliament, mounted the pavement and hit pedestrians before crashing into railings outside the Palace of Westminster.
He stabbed Pc Keith Palmer, 48, to death.
Also killed in the atrocity were US tourist Kurt Cochran, Romanian tourist Andreea Cristea, 31, and Britons Aysha Frade, 44, and 75-year-old Leslie Rhodes. Masood was shot dead by police.
May 22: Twenty-two people – including children – are killed in a bombing at a pop concert in Manchester.
Lone suicide attacker Salman Abedi detonated an explosive device as crowds of music fans, many of them youngsters, left Manchester Arena following a performance by US singer Ariana Grande.
June 3: Eight people are killed in a terror attack around London Bridge.
A van ploughed into people on the bridge before the three attackers carried out a knife rampage in Borough Market.
The perpetrators – Khuram Butt, 27, Rachid Redouane, 30, and Youssef Zaghba, 22 – were shot dead by police.
June 19: One man dies and several others are injured after a man allegedly rams his van into worshippers in north London.
Darren Osborne, 47, of no fixed address in Cardiff, is charged with murder and attempted murder after being accused of carrying out a premeditated attack on Muslims as they left a mosque on Seven Sisters Road, Finsbury Park.
Police warned there is no such thing as a ‘typical terrorist’ after official statistics showed rises in numbers detained across ethnicities and age groups.
There were 379 arrests for terrorism-related offences in the year ending June 2017, the highest number in a 12-month period since data collection began in 2001.
Police and MI5 are running 500 investigations involving 3,000 individuals at any one time, while there are also 20,000 former ‘subjects of interest’ whose risk must be kept under review.
When officers raided his home in the Alum Rock area of the city, they found his room littered with text books detailing guerrilla warfare techniques and small arms combat, further bomb making instructions and dismantled electrical items such as doorbells and alarm clocks.
He bought most of the items he used for his bombs over the internet.
Chief Superintendent Matt Ward, of West Midlands Police, said of Hussain’s bomb at the time: ‘Forensic examination of the pressure cooker found it contained mixed urea, nails, drills bits, nuts, bolts, steel sockets and diesel fuel.
‘The Christmas tree lights also found at his address had been adapted so each one could be used as an explosive initiator or detonator.
‘Examination of his computer discovered browsing history relating to terrorism including bomb making and bomb blast injuries, showing he had a consistent and continued interest in terrorism and conflict.’
Horrified witnesses have reported passengers fleeing a London tube carriage in terror as they feared the ‘whole train would blow up’.
Peter Crowley, who was travelling on the District Line this morning, said his head has been ‘charred’ after a fireball engulfed his train at Parsons Green in west London.
Emma Stevie, 27, was on the train when the explosion happened at Parsons Green, in south-west London, and was caught in a ‘stampede’ and crush on the station steps.
Other commuters at the scene said they were ‘thrown around and crushed’ by panicked crowds shouting ‘there’s a man, there’s a man’ before running from the area.
Police have evacuated Parsons Green Underground Station after reports of a man wielding a knife and a second explosive device.
Emergency services have been on the scene at the London Underground station since around 8.20am this morning when a ‘fireball’ engulfed a train.
Witnesses claim at least 30 commuters including school children were injured after a homemade bomb exploded on a packed commuter train.
Dozens of commuters made a ‘100 metre sprint’ after a large flash engulfed the 8.20am train as it pulled into Parsons Green station.
Video editor Luke Walmsley, 33, saw a woman with the skin of both her legs removed by the fire.
He also claims a ten-year-old boy suffered injuries and everybody had similar burns to their faces and hair.
In the moments after the incident photos of a burning white bucket, similar to a pot of paint inside a Lidl bag, with wires coming from the top were posted on social media.
Emma Stevie told the BBC: ‘We got on the train at Parsons Green, then I heard lots of screams and people saying ‘run, run’.
‘We got out and then there was a human stampede, down the stairs.
‘There were people lying underneath getting crushed, a big human pile-on. I wedged myself in next to a railing. I put myself in the foetal position. I kept thinking, ‘I’ll be ok, I’ll be ok’.
‘There was a pregnant woman underneath me, and I was trying really hard not to crush her.
‘The fire brigade was telling us to get back on the platform, but no-one was.
‘The injuries from the stampede seemed the worst. I’m outside now, there are women crying and people sitting on the floor.’
Peter Crowley told the BBC: ‘I heard a large bang from the doors on the other side of the tube train and this fireball came towards my heard and singed off all my hair – I have got burn marks at the top of my head. Everyone just ran off the train, it was quite scary.
‘It was a really hot intense fireball above my head, I’ve just got red marks and burns to the top of my head. There were a lot of people a lot worse than me.
‘I saw a gentleman opposite me in a puffer jacket and the whole back of that had been burned where the intense heat had got to it – he had burn marks across his face which are looking a lot worse than mine.
‘There were a lot of people in shock, a lot of people visibly upset. Mostly it was facial injuries, burns rather than cuts.
‘It was like nothing I have ever seen before – sheer panic. Everyone jumped off the train, everyone initial reaction was to look back and assess the situation. It was just sheer panic.
‘It was busy but it was movable, it was busy for that time of day. I am just going to the hospital shortly.’
Accountant Sarah Hickson, 31, who was on her way to work said she was ‘thrown around and crushed’ by panicked crowds.
She said: ‘People just started shouting ‘there’s a man, there’s a man’ and everyone started running. It was just sheer panic.
‘There were two people in front of me, a pregnant woman and a schoolboy.
‘They were being crushed on the concrete stairs, TfL staff were doing their best to get control but everyone was screaming trying to get out.
‘Eventually they managed to get some calm and people moved ever so slightly back allowing the boy and pregnant woman to get up.’
She added: ‘I am physically okay but shaken up, it was a scary experience.’
People on their way to work were ‘thrown around and crushed’ by panicked crowds
Mr Walmsley, 33, said: ‘There was a really acrid burning smell that came out of the carriage.
‘We were three-quarters of a carriage away; there was screaming and then running as it pulled into Parsons Green – that was when it happened. It was coming to a standstill.
‘In the immediate seconds there were people running and shouting, it was just like where do you run to?
‘We did not know what was going on, there was a girl who had serious burns to her leg and there was a 10-year-old boy who had burns to his ankle.
‘People were rushing down the platform, everyone was doing a 100m sprint.
‘There was a flash at the end of the carriage that came down the train.
‘There were lots of injuries from people being trampled on and everyone who had been close to it had the same burns to their head.
‘We heard the first scream and then looked down and saw a flash and then the smoke and people running.
‘It was complete pandemonium, complete terror. They didn’t open the gates and the underground did not understand what was going on.
‘People were shouting ‘he’s got a knife! He’s got a knife!’ I didn’t see anyone with a knife.
‘It was the school run and there were a lot of kids in school uniform and mums and nannies trying to work out where their kids were.
‘The explosion was like a large match going off at the end of the carriage.
‘When people started running there was then the smell of burnt people.
‘There were more than 30 people injured, it was a full carriage and everyone had something wrong with them.
‘There was this girl who had no skin on her leg, whatever she had been wearing was just gone.
‘And there was another girl whose back garment was gone and her hair was gone.
‘It was a packed commuter train.’
Witnesses claim at least 30 commuters including school children were injured after a homemade bomb exploded on a packed commuter train
Couple Lucy, 24 and Fabin, 29, were on their way to work when the explosion happened.
Lucy, who works in PR, said: ‘We just heard screaming and sprinting, there was a stampede on the stairs and people were falling over, there was a schoolboy being lifted up after he had fallen down, he was in his school uniform, he must have been about ten, he was crying and distressed.’
Olaniyi Shokunbi, 24, boarded the train the bomb had been planted on at Putney Bridge and had been listening to music when he saw people scrambling off the train.
He said: ‘I thought the train was leaving Parsons Green but then I saw lots of people running up.
‘My first instinct was to get out of the train myself.
‘It’s a small station. There’s only two exits and a lot of people were struggling over each other. Some people just jumped over.
‘I thought it was an acid attack. It was early morning and people were drinking coffee and I felt some [liquid] on me and I thought ‘that better not go on my face’.’
Mr Shokunbi, a fitness instructor, said he had seen people lying on the floor covered in blood.
He said: ‘There were people on the floor, there was a little boy, I really felt sorry for him, he couldn’t have been more than 11.
‘He had scratches on his head, he was looking for his little brother.
‘I was going to go back into the train station but a woman said ‘don’t go back in there, there’s people on the floor’.’
He added: ‘There was a woman on the floor. She couldn’t breathe. People were screaming and crying.’
Speaking to local radio Mr Crowley added: ‘I would personally say roughly about 20 who had physical injuries a lot of people who were shaken by the incident.
‘I wasn’t aware of the bag, I tend to keep myself to myself, I was side on to where I believe the incident happened.
‘That side of my hair is charred. There was a lot powder as if it was a high pressure tube that had some coating on it.’
He added: ‘Everyone ran off the tube, it was panic stations, my initial thought was that the whole train would blow up.
‘I saw passengers with facial burns, they had been exposed to a very, very hot fire for a nano second, it was lucky doors were open because everyone just got off the tube.
‘It was a terrifying experience, I am lucky I got away with just a bit of charred hair.’
The incident is ongoing, said police at the scene as police helicopters hover ahead where the suspect is thought to still be on the loose.
Counter terror police confirmed this morning the incident at Parson’s Green is being treated as a terror attack.
At the scene dozens of police and ambulances have continued to be called into the cordoned area.
A police officer told MailOnline: ‘We believe there is a second bomb, people need to stay back there is a man with knives on the loose.’
Merton Council Councillor Daniel Holden was on the train that exploded this morning said there are ‘quite a few people injured.’
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The company tweeted this morning: ‘We are aware of an incident at Parsons Green.
‘We have turned off dynamic pricing and will refund all journeys from the affected area. ‘
He said: ‘I was one carriage away when it happened.
‘It was like a fireball had just hit, everyone was screaming and panicking. Everyone was trying to push their way off the train.’
‘There’s hundreds of police, fire brigade and ambulance here now.’
Mr Holden said he wasn’t injured in the explosion, but saw a few people who were.
‘They’re treating a few people who look quite injured,’ he said.
Former London Mayor and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said: ‘It really is important not to spectacle at the moment, obviously everyone should keep calm and go about their lives in a normal way.
‘As far as I understand the British Transport Police and TFL are on it and will be updating their websites as and when we get information.’
Chaos on the London Underground as District Line is shut down and police confirm Parsons Green explosion was terror attack
There is chaos on the London Underground after an explosion sent a fireball cascading through a packed commuter train this morning.
Transport for London said Tube services are suspended between Earls Court and Wimbledon.
Parsons Green station in west London remains closed with members of the public being urged to avoid area after a device exploded on the rush hour train.
Police have confirmed they are treating it as a terror-related incident.
There was a stampede as a ‘fireball flew down the carriage’, leaving several passengers with serious facial burns on the packed rush hour train in Parsons Green, west London at 8.20am.
The doors opened on the District Line train and the commuters, many of them with scorched faces and hair, ran off screaming.
Transport for London said it was ‘investigating an incident at Parsons Green’ and urged customers travelling between Wimbledon and Earls Court to use alternative routes.
There is no service on the District Line from Earls Court to Wimbledon, with severe delays from Earls Court to Edgware Road.
TfL says there are also minor delays from Ealing Broadway to Turnham Green.
London Buses, South Western and London Overground are accepting London Underground tickets via any reasonable route.
TfL said passengers are being urged to avoid Earls Court, adding it remains unclear when the line will re-open with delays expected into the evening.
Nigel Holness, London Underground’s director of network operations, said: ‘Our staff have worked to assist the emer-gency services and to ensure the safety of our customers during this morning’s incident at Parsons Green.
‘We are focussed on assisting the police investigation into what happened and providing support for our customers and staff.
‘Our Sarah Hope Line is available to offer help and support to anyone affected by this morning’s incident.’
Officers said the incident is ongoing, as police helicopters hover ahead where the suspect is thought to still be on the loose.
Counter terror police confirmed this morning the incident at Parson’s Green is being treated as a terror attack.
At the scene dozens of police and ambulances have continued to be called into the cordoned area.
A police officer told MailOnline: ‘We believe there is a second bomb, people need to stay back there is a man with knives on the loose.’
Defiant Londoners have reached out and offered to help anyone caught up in a bomb blast which hit an underground train this morning.
People across the capital have offered to make tea and open up their homes to anyone wounded in the blast on a train at Parsons Green in west London.
Taxi drivers have also come to the aid of those affected, offering free journeys while Facebook users are inviting victims in to shelter, rest and charge their phones.
Nearby taxi company Hayber Cars has offered its services free of charge, while Chelsea and Fulham Dentist, has also offered people a place to shelter.
Jan Ståhlberg tweeted: ‘Classic British response to an emergency & major incident: ‘I’ll put the kettle on’. Compassion and Communities come together.’
Anthony J Myers added: ‘Thank you to TfL staff, emergency services, security services and the Londoners of #ParsonsGreen who have offered to put the kettle on.’
Kind-hearted Debbie Clark, 57, has opened up her home on Kelvedon Road as a makeshift hospital while a police hunt is underway for the perpetrators behind the terror incident.
The mother of two woke up to hear banging at her front door from her neighbour Princess Stafford, who is deaf and mute and had been badly injured in a stampede as hundreds rushed out of the station following an explosion.
Ms Clark said: ‘I woke up to banging and she was at my door crying and distressed.’
Across the road, Ms Clark said she saw three girls opposite her home, one was crying and said there were all ‘as white as a sheet’.
Taking them into her home, she gave them water and called their parents. She said: ‘they are just in shock. They said it happened so quickly, they just wanted to get out of there. One was from Sheffield, another from Surrey.’
She said: ‘I brought them all into my home, called the police and their parents. I just wanted to do something, you feel so helpless. I’ve lived here all my life and was born in Parson’s Green, you never expect something like this to happen.’
Her neighbour Princess is currently on Ms Clark’s balcony with two chairs creating a makeshift stretcher with a suspected leg injury.
The 32-year-old was pushed to the floor by panicked commuters this morning as she waited to board a train at Parson’s Green to take her to work.
She told MailOnline how she was knocked to the ground and trapped. She said: ‘I couldn’t move, there were people on top of me and walking over me.’
The rush was so great she was pushed back to the stairwell, she said.
With tears in her eyes, she told MailOnline how she couldn’t breathe because of the number of people passing over her.
This afternoon she waits to be taken to hospital at Ms Clark’s home. She was told by London Ambulance they could be waiting for up to four hours.
Ms Clark said: ‘They are going to send a non emergency could take two to four hours because there have been serious injuries we understand. She can’t communicate she can’t hear and talk, good job I was in I am so glad I was in for her.’
‘Stay calm and go about your lives’: Boris Johnson urges Londoners not to panic as security is ramped up across the capital
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has called on Londoners to remain calm as security is stepped up in the capital in the wake of the Parsons Green explosion.
Officers from the Metropolitan Police’s counter-terrorism command have launched an investigation following the explosion in west London during the Friday morning rush hour.
Mr Johnson says people should ‘keep calm and go about their normal lives’ as emergency services respond to the incident.
Mr Johnson says it would be ‘wrong to speculate’, but that police and transit authorities ‘are on it.’
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said London ‘will never be intimidated or defeated by terrorism’.
A Scotland Yard spokesman added: ‘We urge the public to remain calm but alert and if you have any concerns, see or hear anything suspicious then contact police.’
Prime Minister Theresa May is to chair a meeting of the Government’s Cobra emergencies committee this afternoon to discuss the incident.
Commuters fled in terror after the blast and witnesses reported seeing several people hurt and ‘covered in blood’ after a ‘flash and a bang’ on the District Line Tube.
Emergency services including armed police rushed to the scene and cordoned off the station.
Pictures posted on social media showed wires protruding from a flaming bucket inside a plastic carrier bag on the floor of a carriage.
The Met added: ‘It is too early to confirm the cause of the fire, which will be subject to the investigation that is now under way by the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command.’
Investigators will be scouring CCTV and taking statements from dozens of witnesses as they attempt to piece together the lead-up to the explosion.
The device will be forensically assessed after being made safe, while police will be urgently trying to establish whether someone attempted to detonate it, and whether they were present at the scene.
The scenes of panic evoked memories of the July 7 atrocities in 2005, when suicide bombers killed 52 people in a series of co-ordinated attacks across the transport network.
Two weeks later, a group of men attempted to set off rucksack devices but the bombs failed to go off.
The emergency at Parsons Green will spark another huge counter-terrorism probe as security services confront an unprecedented threat.
Four attacks – at Westminster, Manchester, London Bridge and Finsbury Park – have hit Britain already this year.
Authorities have foiled 19 plots since the middle of 2013 – including six since the Westminster atrocity in March.
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North Korea fires missile over Japan in longest-ever flight
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired an intermediate-range missile over Japan into the northern Pacific Ocean on Friday, U.S. and South Korean militaries said, its longest-ever such flight and a clear message of defiance to its rivals.
Since President Donald Trump threatened the North with “fire and fury” in August, Pyongyang has conducted its most powerful nuclear test, threatened to send missiles into the waters around Guam and launched two missiles of increasing range over U.S. ally Japan. It tested its first-ever intercontinental ballistic missiles in July.
The growing frequency, power and confidence displayed by these tests seem to confirm what governments and outside experts have long feared: North Korea is closer than ever to its goal of building a military arsenal that can viably target both U.S. troops in Asia and the U.S. homeland. This, in turn, is meant to allow North Korea greater military freedom in the region by raising doubts in Seoul and Tokyo that Washington would risk the annihilation of a U.S. city to protect its Asian allies.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missile traveled about 3,700 kilometers (2,300 miles) and reached a maximum height of 770 kilometers (478 miles).
North Korea fired an intermediate-range missile over Japan into the northern Pacific Ocean on Friday, U.S. and South Korean militaries said, its longest-ever such flight and a clear message of defiance. (Sept. 15)
North Korea has repeatedly vowed to continue these tests amid what it calls U.S. hostility — by which it means the presence of tens of thousands of U.S. troops in Japan and South Korea. Robust diplomacy on the issue has been stalled for years, and there’s little sign that senior officials from Pyongyang and Washington might sit down to discuss ways to slow the North’s determined march toward inclusion among the world’s nuclear weapons powers.
Friday’s missile, which Seoul said was the 19th ballistic missile launched by North Korea this year, triggered sirens and warning messages in northern Japan but caused no apparent damage to aircraft or ships. It was the second missile fired over Japan in less than a month. North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test on Sept. 3.
The missile was launched from Sunan, the location of Pyongyang’s international airport and the origin of the earlier missile that flew over Japan. Analysts have speculated the new test was of the same intermediate-range missile launched in that earlier flight, the Hwasong-12.
That missile is linked to North Korea’s declaration that it means to contain the U.S. Pacific island territory of Guam, which is the home of important U.S. military assets and appears well within the Hwasong-12′s range.
Friday’s missile test was met with the usual outrage. South Korean President Moon Jae-in ordered his military to conduct a live-fire ballistic missile drill in response to the North Korean launch and instructed government officials to pursue “stern” measures to discourage Pyongyang from further provocations. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said one of the two missiles fired in the drill hit a sea target about 250 kilometers (155 miles) away, which was approximately the distance to Pyongyang’s Sunan, but the other failed in flight shortly after launch.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis both called the North Korean launch a reckless act.
The U.N. Security Council scheduled an emergency closed-door meeting to be held Friday afternoon in New York. Trump has not commented.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command and the U.S. Pacific Command said the missile posed no threat to North America or to Guam.
South Korean experts have said North Korea wants to make missiles flying over Japan an accepted norm as it seeks to win more military space in a region dominated by its enemies.
North Korea initially flight-tested the Hwasong-12 and the ICBM model Hwasong-14 at highly lofted angles to reduce their range and avoid neighboring countries.
The two launches over Japan indicate North Korea is moving toward using angles close to operational to determine whether its warheads can survive the harsh conditions of atmospheric re-entry and detonate properly.
North Korea’s August launch over Japan came weeks after it threatened to fire a salvo of Hwasong-12s toward Guam and bracket the island with “enveloping” missile fire. The North’s latest launch might be an attempt to demonstrate its ability to fire a missile close to Guam, which is 3,400 kilometers (2,112 miles) away from North Korea, said Kim Dong-yub, a former South Korean military official who is now an analyst at Seoul’s Institute for Far Eastern Studies.
https://apnews.com/9d5be2ad4dd44c6082a7982d17b84b2f/North-Korea-fires-missile-over-Japan-in-longest-ever-flight
NKOREA LEADER SAYS HE WILL COMPLETE NUKE PROGRAM
BY KIM TONG HYUNG AND EDITH M. LEDERER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea leader Kim Jong Un said the country is nearing its goal of “equilibrium” in military force with the United States, as the United Nations Security Council strongly condemned the North’s “highly provocative” ballistic missile test on Friday.
The North’s official Korean Central News Agency carried Kim’s comments on Saturday – a day after U.S. and South Korean militaries detected the missile launch from the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
It traveled 3,700 kilometers (2,300 miles) as it flew over Japan before landing in the northern Pacific Ocean. It was the country’s longest-ever test flight of a ballistic missile.
The North has confirmed the missile as an intermediate range Hwasong-12, the same model launched over Japan on Aug. 29.
The KCNA said Kim expressed great satisfaction over the launch, which he said verified the “combat efficiency and reliability” of the missile and the success of efforts to increase its power.
While the English version of the report was less straightforward, the Korean version quoted Kim as declaring the missile as operationally ready. He vowed to complete his nuclear weapons program in the face of strengthening international sanctions, the agency said.
The U.N. Security Council accused North Korea of undermining regional peace and security by launching its latest missile over Japan and said its nuclear and missile tests “have caused grave security concerns around the world” and threaten all 193 U.N. member states.
Kim also said the country, despite “limitless” international sanctions, has nearly completed the building of its nuclear weapons force and called for “all-state efforts” to reach the goal and obtain a “capacity for nuclear counterattack the U.S. cannot cope with.”
“As recognized by the whole world, we have made all these achievements despite the UN sanctions that have lasted for decades,” the agency quoted Kim as saying.
Kim said the country’s final goal “is to establish the equilibrium of real force with the U.S. and make the U.S. rulers dare not talk about military option for the DPRK,” referring to North Korea’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
He indicated that more missile tests would be forthcoming, saying that all future drills should be “meaningful and practical ones for increasing the combat power of the nuclear force” to establish an order in the deployment of nuclear warheads for “actual war.”
Prior to the launches over Japan, North Korean had threatened to fire a salvo of Hwasong-12s toward Guam, the U.S. Pacific island territory and military hub the North has called an “advanced base of invasion.”
The Security Council stressed in a statement after a closed-door emergency meeting that all countries must “fully, comprehensively and immediately” implement all U.N. sanctions.
Japan’s U.N. Ambassador Koro Bessho called the missile launch an “outrageous act” that is not only a threat to Japan’s security but a threat to the world as a whole.”
Bessho and the British, French and Swedish ambassadors demanded that all sanctions be implemented.
Calling the latest launch a “terrible, egregious, illegal, provocative reckless act,” Britain’s U.N. Ambassador Matthew Rycroft said North Korea’s largest trading partners and closest links – a clear reference to China – must “demonstrate that they are doing everything in their power to implement the sanctions of the Security Council and to encourage the North Korean regime to change course.”
France’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the country is ready to work on tougher U.N. and EU measures to convince Pyongyang that there is no interest in an escalation, and to bring it to the negotiating table.
Friday’s launch followed North Korea’s sixth and most powerful nuclear test on Sept. 3 in what it described as a detonation of a thermonuclear weapon built for its developmental intercontinental ballistic missiles.
The North flight tested its Hwasong-14 ICBMs twice in July and analysts say the missiles could potentially reach deep into the U.S. mainland when perfected.
The growing frequency, power and confidence displayed by Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile tests seem to confirm what governments and outside experts have long feared: North Korea is closer than ever to its goal of building a military arsenal that can viably target U.S. troops both in Asia and in the U.S. homeland.
This, in turn, is meant to allow North Korea greater military freedom in the region by raising doubts in Seoul and Tokyo that Washington would risk the annihilation of a U.S. city to protect its Asian allies.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in, a liberal who initially pushed for talks with North Korea, said its tests currently make dialogue “impossible.”
“If North Korea provokes us or our allies, we have the strength to smash the attempt at an early stage and inflict a level of damage it would be impossible to recover from,” he said.
Robust international diplomacy on the issue has been stalled for years, and there’s so far little sign that senior officials from North Korea and the U.S. might sit down to discuss ways to slow the North’s determined march toward inclusion among the world’s nuclear weapons powers.
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Lederer reported from the United Nations.
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To see what free speech looks like in 2017 at the birthplace of the famed movement, consider the elaborate preparations underway for a talk Thursday by a conservative writer.
Ben Shapiro isn’t nearly as controversial as some right-wing speakers who have roiled the campus over the last year.
Nonetheless, UC Berkeley has told students that counseling is available to those stressed by all the commotion. A large swath of the campus will be closed off, including the plaza where the free speech movement began in the 1960s. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been spent on security, and police now can use pepper spray on protesters after a 20-year-old ban was lifted by the City Council this week.
Shapiro’s appearance is a key test for Berkeley, which has been hit by a series of violent clashes between far-left and far-right agitators that have sparked soul-searching in this liberal community about the line between protest and criminal behavior. Berkeley has become a favorite spot for far-right demonstrators to speak out, knowing they can get attention and push buttons in enemy territory.
The Thursday event marks the start of a parade of right-wing speakers who may be coming to campus over the next month. They include former White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon and right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, who announced that they will appear as part of a “Free Speech Week” event on campus.
The event is organized by Yiannopoulos and a student group. On Tuesday, Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof stressed that this event is far from a done deal — the student group hadn’t yet satisfied the requirements for bringing a speaker or followed proper procedure.
UC BERKELEY BRACES
‘We’ve never seen a situation like this’
But UC Berkeley’s new chancellor, Carol T. Christ, has said allowing these talks is essential, trumpeting the belief that the best response to hate speech is “more speech” rather than trying to shut down others.
That leaves officials with the task of keeping the peace — and trying to keep the various warring sides under control. They hope to do it with what officials say are unprecedented security measures.
“We’ve never seen a situation like this. It’s very unique. It’s a very different political dynamic where free speech … at Berkeley has become the occasion for the right and left to confront each other,” Christ said Wednesday. “I believe very strongly in Ben Shapiro’s right to speak on campus. I don’t agree with Ben Shapiro; in fact I profoundly disagree with him. But I believe he was legitimately invited by a student group and that he has the right to speak. It’s a really troubling situation.”
City and campus officials are taking heightened steps to prevent the sort of chaos that descended on campus when Yiannopoulos tried to speak in February.
Police officers and physical barriers will be set up in a roughly half-mile-long perimeter around six campus buildings Thursday afternoon, cutting off access to Sproul Plaza, the site of Mario Savio’s famous 1964 address during the free speech movement and a common meeting ground for activists of all stripes.
In order to pass through the security perimeter, people will have to show tickets for the speech. Those who show up to protest will encounter an “increased and highly visible police presence,” Provost Paul Alivisatos said in a letter to the campus last week.
If protesters spill into the city business district south of campus, along Telegraph Avenue, they will encounter the city’s police force — which is now free to use pepper spray on individual protesters officers deem are committing acts of violence.
PEPPER SPRAY AND CLOSED STREETS
Berkeley police try to keep order
Berkeley police have come under criticism for not doing enough to break up the violence that has marred past protests.
Berkeley Police Chief Andrew Greenwood successfully pitched the City Council on Tuesday to adjust a 1997 ban on the use of pepper spray as a crowd-control technique.
Greenwood argued that police needed another tool — besides batons and tear gas — to deal with the violence that has come with the new wave of protests.
Councilwoman Linda Maio, who voted for the measure, agreed, citing the prospects of large protests if Yiannopoulos and Bannon come to campus in the coming weeks.
“This is a new phenomenon that is evolving, and we really don’t know what to expect,” she said of the protests over the last few months.
On Wednesday, the city also announced it was banning a wide range of weapons, including bricks, Mace and dynamite in a square-mile area centered around UC Berkeley’s campus.
Since the election, Berkeley residents have seen months of clashes between activists on the left who employ black-bloc militant tactics and once-obscure far-right organizations such as the Proud Boys and the Fraternal Order of Alt-Knights.
The skirmishes have resulted in thousands of dollars of property damage in Berkeley and a handful of criminal charges.
The situation at Berkeley on Thursday will be a far cry from Shapiro’s visit to the campus in April 2016.
SHAPIRO’S STORY
A conservative voice that fights Trump, Bannon
Shapiro was met with little, if any, controversy then. The website he edits, the Daily Wire, wrote at the time that “the audience at Berkeley was civil and polite, perhaps more so than any other university Shapiro has visited in the last few weeks.”
The month before that speech, Shapiro resigned from the Bannon-led BreitbartNews after a colleague of his accused then-Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski of assaulting her.
“Steve Bannon is a bully, and has sold out Andrew [Breitbart]’s mission in order to back another bully, Donald Trump; he has shaped the company into Trump’s personal Pravda,” Shapiro wrote in a statement at the time.
During the election, his lashing critiques of Trump made him one of the more prominent opponents of the then-Republican nominee in the conservative movement.
This opposition to candidate Trump also made him the target of anti-Semitic harassment. The Anti-Defamation League released a report last fall detailing anti-Semitic harassment of journalists on Twitter during the first half of the 2016 election cycle. It found Shapiro to be the No. 1 target.
Shapiro was frustrated by a Berkeley decision earlier this month to shrink the number of seats in the audience for his address. Fitting in with a broader critique he’s offered in his writing, Shapiro also ridiculed the idea that anyone would need to seek counseling because he was speaking.
“As far as them ensuring that I have a venue trying to make sure that it’s secure, I’m not sure all of what they’re doing makes sense, but I’m appreciative that they’re at least trying,” Shapiro said.
“It’s very easy to get kids riled up by doing the shtick Yiannopoulos does, but that’s not my game, and it’s always why the comparisons are weird for me.”
It is unclear what level of protests will greet Shapiro.
Organizers with the group RefuseFacism.org were busy on campus Wednesday handing out fliers promoting a demonstration against Shapiro set for Thursday evening.
At Tuesday’s packed City Council meeting, Raphael Kadaris, an organizer with the group, drew loud applause from the audience when he said the council members were acting as “collaborators” with what he claims is a growing fascist movement in the nation for allowing the police use of pepper spray.
“These people don’t care about free speech,” he said, referring to the conservative speakers coming to campus. “They are using free speech as a pretext to get a foothold, to normalize fascism on these college campuses and to recruit a new generation of fascist youth into their movement.”
Some faculty members have called for a boycott during the “free speech” week.
Christ said Wednesday the challenge is to protect free speech in this charged environment.
“I think we’re in an area which presents both challenges to the law and challenges to university policy when a speaker occasions the university to first of all spend extraordinary amounts of money and take extraordinary measures that are quite disruptive to the university’s main business in order to protect the right of free speech.”
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-berkeley-protests-far-right-shapiro-20170914-htmlstory.html
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