Manhunt underway after London Underground blast, the 6th terror attack in Britain this year
London, 16th Sept: A manhunt is underway in London after an apparent bucket bomb exploded on a crowded subway train during rush hour Friday morning, sending a fireball through the passenger car and sending at least 29 people to the hospital, officials said. British authorities are treating the blast as a terror attack, the sixth in Britain this year. Witnesses described a ball of flames and a loud explosion.
Police said the improvised explosive device used did not fully explode.
“This is a live investigation,” Assistant Commissioner for London’s Metropolitan Police Service Mark Rowley said outside Scotland Yard, the police force’s headquarters, shortly after the explosion occurred at the Parsons Green tube station just after 8 a.m. local time.
“There are many urgent inquiries ongoing with hundreds of detectives involved, looking at CCTV, carrying out forensic work and speaking to witnesses,” Rowley, the head of national counter-terrorism policing, added.
British Prime Minister Theresa May said after an emergency Cabinet meeting that the nation’s threat level is at “severe.” The public should remain vigilant, she said. A British government official said the incident is being treated as a terror attack but so far it appears to be an isolated incident.
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