Terrified passengers were evacuated from parts of London’s transport system today after incidents involving explosives at three underground stations and a bus.
The explosions were attempts to kill that had failed, the Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, said tonight.
Two small blasts occurred on tube trains: one near Warren Street station in central London, and the other on a tube train near Oval station in south London.
A third small explosion was reported on a No 26 bus in Shoreditch, east London.
A suspect package was also found at Shepherd’s Bush station in west London.
One woman was reportedly injured at Warren Street, but there were no reports of casualties during the other incidents, which happened shortly before 1pm.
Sir Ian said tonight: “The intention must have been to kill.”
But he added: “The intention of the terrorists has not been fulfilled.”
Or maybe not, since these terrorists couldn’t pull it off. But this is a really bad sign because it probably signals a copy-cat bombing attempt that will be followed by others.