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| July 8, 2005 | Friday | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 30, 1426 |
Accidents on London Underground
LONDON, July 7: The explosions on underground trains and buses in central London are the latest in a series of terrorist attacks and accidents to hit the British capital’s public transport system since the 1970s.
Following is a list of incidents to strike stations in London:
1973
A wave of bomb attacks in September injures 18 people in stations at Victoria, Euston and King’s Cross. Bomb disposal experts defuse another device at Baker Street tube station.
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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