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Thursday, July 21 University Hospital (London) effectively locked down as armed police move in  Affected Tube stations (courtesy Sky News)According to Sky News, an internal memo has been passed around University Hospital advising them to be on the lookout for a "black man, possibly Asian, ... wearing a blue top with a hole in the back, and wires protruding from them" - armed police response units were seen moving into the Hospital before it was locked down, so it looks like one of the suspects may well be being detained as we speak. One injury has been reported at Warren Street station by the police, and there's no trace of chemical agents or anything like that - so it looks like another attempted, coordinated bomb detonation which has seriously backfired (thankfully). Roads are opening again, including some fairly major thoroughfares, so traffic is flowing again, the incidents don't appear to be as serious as July the 7th. There's no serious incident emergency response unit or mobile triage setup anywhere (at least nowhere cameras can see), and injuries are minimal, so this is either a seriously botched attempt at another attack, or a rather more sketchy attempt by (quite possibly suicidally-intent) bombers. One bomber is apparently on the run, without a detonator, but with his bomb, and police are after him... The consequence of that though is that police are making sure people aren't using their mobile phones to negate the possibility of RF setting off any more bombs or detonators. There don't appear to be any ambulance personnel or paramedics on the scene at present, which is definitely a good sign. Watching Sky News at the moment, I see many police, some with sniffer dogs, and clusters of firemen, but none seem to be doing an exceeding amount of work - there are definitely plenty around, but it seems that a fair few are either waiting for further orders, or performing sideline tasks such as taking eyewitness statements. A statement from Tony Blair is expected any moment, I'll encode it and upload it. Technorati tags: London bombs latest information Dragged out of Christopher's memory and pasted into his blog at 7/21/2005 03:15:00 PM. Roughly. Blog ID: 112195530389868432· | Permalink |
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