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Accidents on London Underground
1975 October: One person is killed and 20 are injured when a bomb explodes in Piccadilly, near the entrance to Green Park Underground station. A tube train driver is killed by a suspected terrorist shortly after a car bomb explodes outside West Ham station in east London injuring nine passengers. —A bomb explodes on a train at Wood Green station, injuring one person. —Eight passengers are injured as a bomb explodes at Cannon Street station. October: Police defuse a firebomb planted on the tracks at London Bridge station, where a fire had broken out two months earlier. Feb 18: One dead and 40 injured in a bomb attack on Victoria station, claimed by the Irish Republican Army. A second bomb explodes at Paddington station without causing any casualties. —Aug 29: three firebombs are found at an Underground depot. Feb 7: a firebomb explodes at Barking station but no-one is hurt. —Dec 22: a bomb explodes at Hampstead station. —Feb 3: a bomb explosion at South Kensington station causes no injuries. —November: police arrest three men of north African origin, suspected of preparing a gas attack on the London Underground. —The worst accident to hit the system was in 1975 when a train crashed into a wall at Moorgate station, killing 43 people and injuring more than 100. —A fire at King’s Cross station in 1987 left 31 dead and 150 injured. —AFP
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