Explosion on a tube train

Just been announced on radio that it was a terrorist device People injured

Sending and supportive thoughts to all those GNers and their families who have to live or work in London. I know it can happen anywhere and does, but you have had more than most.

I saw earlier, on the news that there had been something at Parsons Green, but they didn't know what it was.

It was a home made "bomb" in a paint tin inside a Lidl packet and there was an explosion and it caught fire. Unattended package which often happens on the Tube when workmen leave their heavy stuff at the door and take a seat. What amazes me is that people stood around taking photos

Like this one. (I hope no one was injured).

18 people are injured, mainly flash burns but to my knowledge no deaths.

That's awful ... burns

The number has increased to more than 22. Apparently some were injured during the ensuing panic. I do not know if bones were broken but that is the most likely.

This was my biggest fear when I did a daily commute of which an hour was on the underground.

I'm glad it wasn't worse to be honest.

Doesn't it just seem as though the whole world is a seething mass of anger at the moment? Where's it all coming from?

Hi mini ... it does feel as if the world's gone mad.

and it came just after the government saying they would increase arms sales after Brexit ...and we wonder why people want to harm us! The damage done to other countries and millions of people by us and our "friends " in the USA is horrific ,yet we continue on our own path and destroy lives and think nobody should be angry about it ".GREAT" Britain is a joke ....as for Trump and his cohorts ...we do know the USA has tested nuclear weapons 1800 times yet he's threatening NK for just 6 ...and surrounding them with threatening forces so of course they will argue back ..lets hope it all gets sorted soon.That SOMEONE with some sense takes control before we're all blown to kingdom come

It is entirely possible that this poorly put together device is the work of some nutter.

Well said paddy ann

lemongrove it would appear to be, because I would not choose if I were that way inclined as Parsons Green station is not underground. The train was travelling to the centre of London so obviously the bomb was detonated too soon and it did not have the expected effect, thank goodness, as it appeared to have been badly made.

Good post, paddyann. It's high time we stopped selling arms (and having the biggest nuclear arms dump in Europe 30 miles from a big city) if we want to tell other countries how to behave. How many deaths are we responsible for in Yemen after selling arms to that beacon of human rights, Saudi Arabia?

I'm not sure what the selling of arms has got to do with a murdering nutter placing a bomb on a tube train in the hope of murdering as many people as possible. Surely that's an entirely different argument. It was only sheer luck that the bomb did not detonate as it was meant to and the "white liquid" remained intact.

What I can't understand is if these people hate this country and what we stand for, so much why the bloody hell do they live here? Why don't they just piss off to whichever "ideal" state they would prefer. The sooner the better.

Strange why so many risk their lives crossing seas to get to this country

It's nothing to do with arms sales for goodness sake.

I totally agree with you gillybob. Why indeed.

Does anyone seriously think that ISIS will give us a pat on the head and stop these terrorist attacks if we refuse to sell arms to Saudi Arabia?

Spain, Germany, France , Belgium

News alert on my phone just said that the police have arrested an 18 year old man in connection with this incident!

18 year old ?????

18 year old ?????

Yes, gillybob, they do seem to be mainly very young terrorists. I'm guessing most of them are home grown, second generation immigrants. The first generation were only too pleased and grateful to get away from their own country, so they didn't put a foot wrong. For these younger ones, the grass is always greener on the other side.