LONDON SHOCKED BY TERROR ATTACKS
Support A1+!Two people have been killed and scores have been injured after three blasts on the Underground network and another on a double-decker bus in London. UK Prime Minister Tony Blair said it was "reasonably clear" there had been a series of terrorist attacks.
He said it was "particularly barbaric" that it was timed to coincide with the G8 summit. He is returning to London.
An Islamist website has posted a statement - purportedly from al-Qaeda - claiming it was behind the attacks.
Blasts occurred between Aldgate East and Liverpool Street tube stations; between Russell Square and King's Cross tube stations; at Edgware Road tube station; and on a bus at Tavistock Square. London's police chief Sir Ian Blair said in all the attacks there had been "many casualties" but it was too early to give a precise figure.
More than 182 casualties and one of the dead were taken to the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, but 123 people have since been released.
