EXTREMELY WORRIED ABOUT Londoners

[annie]

Well, it's sad to admit but our world is not a safe place at all. Being Russian and living in Moscow I have lived through a douzen of horrible moments like that in the past few years...I still remember the terrible feeling of going on a tube after a few bombings in Moscow subways...my heart goes out to Londoners...may you all recover from this...but I think as long as we support each other on all parts of our planet...we have a good chance of standing up to those fascists (sorry couldn't find a more appropriate word)

[MaRije]

Yeah, I totally agree with you!
And My toughts go out to the people of
London. God bless them.!

[Teresa]

Thought I would share an email I received

Some people like Kev were incredible lucky whilst others were not. Kev really really was lucky on Thursday, he came so close.

Hello to all,



My report of the last 2 days



Well to say the least the last 3 days over here in London have been fairly crazy. I was at work on Wed for the Olympic Bid decision and when it was announced everyone was going mad. Every TV in the office was tuned in and no one was working. My colleagues there organized a pub crawl for that night and many people were going out to celebrate. I couldn’t go because I had an exam fairly early the next day.

On thurs I left my flat with plenty of time to spare to get to my exam on time at Russell Square. I went to the tube station to get on the Piccadilly line, as I went all the way down they came across the loud speaker to say the line was suspended for investigation of a fire. I assumed it was the usual crap, and I was really irritated knowing that alternate routes to Russell Square would take forever.

I ran back up, fought my way up to get on an absolutely jammed district line train. I had to go down two stops to switch to the Victoria line, managed to get on that and take it to oxford circus where I had to change lines again. When I got to oxford circus the came over loud speaker again to say Bakerloo line train service was suspended, that meant everyone was trying to get on the Central line trains. I somehow squeezed on one of the first trains and took it to a Holborn which is just below Russell square.

At this time it was quarter till 9 and I still had a good walk or run to get to my exam on time. I managed to get their just after 9 and we started a bit late as everyone had had to find a different route. (Many people took taxis). The university looks over the Square. The exam started and about 20-25 min I heard what I now know was the bus explosion. Didn’t take it on too much and continued my test, 5 min later all u could here was sirens, and then helicopters above us.

The provost of the university came in a little after and said there were some explosions, and he said we could not leave the building once we had finished the exam, but he said we “should finish the test”. So I was able to concentrate “really well” for the 2nd half of the test. The test finished and we were stuck inside as we could see police taping off outside.

We were stuck inside until around 2 30, then we had to walk home to Earls Court (hour and a half walk). I arrived home and watched the news for a while and then went out to a pub for a few drinks and out for dinner with Peter and Stephanie. Outside of the affected areas, the people that were still in London seemed unfazed.

Today I called my boss at LU, to tell him I was fine. It turns out that a fella in my office relative was on the Bus. They said that it was absolute Chaos in the office as you can imagine. (If u don’t know I work in London Underground Headquarters, which is directly next to Scotland Yard.)



Saying that I am safe and it was just a little chaotic for while, but things are mostly normal today. Most buses and tubes are working.



Kev

[Teresa]

SERENA
SABZ
JEWELL

Hope you guys are alright?
Just seen the London News

[sabz]

Hey Teresa!
Really sweet that you remembered us.
There is a lot of confusion going on at the moment so no one really knows what is going on. There was however a small bomb at one station.
This is exactly 2 weeks after the 7/7 bombings.
Just to let you know that i'm fine.
Serena, Jewell are you two ok?
xxxxxxx

[MaRije]

Sabz.. It´s great to hear that you are Okay!
I hope you too, Jewell and the others..!

I haven´t any news more then you Sabz..
I only know that there are three little bomb at the
underground (at three stations).
And that there was also a bomb in a bus.

At the moment they say that one person is hurt.

[Teresa]

Hi Sabz
So glad to hear you are okay
Hope this is the same for the others

What you said is pretty much what I heard before I
left home, but I have not had time to check since
so am still hoping its not on the scale of 7//7. Still it is
just awful

[Teresa]

By Richard Meares and Gerard Wynn
LONDON (Reuters) - Four small coordinated explosions hit London's bus and underground train network on Thursday, injuring one person, exactly 2 weeks after bombers killed more than 50 people in the British capital.

Part of the underground network was shut, but police said the emergency was not as serious as 2 weeks ago as it became clear that the attacks had either failed altogether or lacked the lethal sophistication of the July 7 bombs.

Prime Minister Tony Blair called for calm.

London police chief Ian Blair told reporters: "We know that we've had four explosions or attempts at explosions. It is still pretty unclear what's happened ... The bombs appear to be smaller than the last occasion."

He said some devices appeared not to have gone off properly and only one person had been reported injured.

"Suddenly the door between my carriage and the next one burst open and dozens of people started rushing through and some were falling and there was clearly mass panic," said a witness called Ivan at Warren Street underground station.

"An Italian young man ... said a man was carrying a rucksack (that) suddenly exploded, a minor explosion but enough to blow open the rucksack, and the man then made an exclamation as if something had gone wrong and ... everyone rushed off the carriage."

Police sources said they were hunting several fugitives, according to BBC television.

The prime minister told a news conference: "We know why these things are done. They are done to scare people ... We've got to react calmly."

The emergency, at around 1 p.m. (1200 GMT), coincided with a memorial service for victims of the attacks of July 7.

[NoOdLeS]

its like deja-vu all over again. Hope everyone in london's ok.

[pau]

MY!!! Hope you are all ok!!! Take good care!!

[annie]

so many things going on in London these past few days...i hope it stops soon...Londoners, i hope you're all fine..