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“Hundreds of London police embarked on a massive search Friday, racing to find out who placed a homemade bomb on a packed London subway train during the morning rush hour. The explosion wounded 29 people and ignited a panicked stampede to safety,” wrote The Associated Press for CBC News on September 15, 2017.
The Associated Press continued, “Witnesses described seeing a “wall of fire” as the bomb — hidden in a plastic bucket inside a supermarket freezer bag — went off about 8:20 a.m. while the train was at the Parsons Green station in southwest London.
It was not a large explosion, and British police and health officials said none of the injured was thought to be seriously hurt. Yet police said it was a terrorist attack, the sixth in Britain this year.
Experts said London may have escaped far worse carnage because it appeared that the bomb only partially exploded.
“Clearly, this was a device that was intended to cause significant harm,” U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May said after chairing a meeting of the government’s COBRA emergency committee.
Hours later, the Metropolitan Police force said there had been no arrests, but hundreds of detectives, aided by intelligence agents, were looking at surveillance camera footage in the subway, carrying out forensic work and speaking to witnesses.”
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