Summary

  • A manhunt is under way to find the person behind Friday's Tube bombing

  • Police are 'chasing down suspects' and trawling CCTV after Parsons Green attack

  • Terror threat level raised to 'critical' - meaning an attack is expected 'imminently'

  • The station reopened in the early hours of Saturday

  • 29 people have been treated in hospital - police say 'most' had 'flash burns'

  • The explosion on the District Line train is being treated as terrorism

  • Police say it was caused by an 'improvised explosive device'

  • Anyone with information, photos or video should call 0800 789 321

Live Reporting

Dearbail Jordan and Claire Heald

  1. 'Thoughts with victims of terrorist attack' - home secretary

    Home Secretary Amber Rudd says her "thoughts are with the victims of the terrorist attack".

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  2. Explosion was 'a cowardly attack'

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    Tony Devenish, the Conservative London Assembly member for West Central which incorporates the boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham, has called the explosion a "cowardly attack on innocent members of the public making their morning journeys to work and school".

    "My thoughts are firmly with everyone affected by this awful incident and I thank the emergency services for their ongoing work to treat the injured and establish the facts of what happened," he says.

  3. Parsons Green Tube explosion: What we know so far

    • Emergency services including police, fire and ambulance were called at about 08:20 BST after reports of an explosion on a London-bound District Line train at Parsons Green
    • Witnesses described seeing a white "builder's bucket" in a supermarket bag which was on fire and a "wall of flame" in the train carriage
    • Some people who were in the station said they saw "panicked scenes" with people being crushed by others as they tried to escape
    • Police said "a number of people" have been injured and St Mary's Hospital in Paddington has declared a major incident
    • About two hours after the explosion happened the Met confirmed it is treating it as a terrorist incident
    Emergency services outside Parsons Green stationPA

  4. Watch: Witness describes 'sheer pandemonium and panic'

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  5. Eleven major incidents this year

    Five attacks - six stopped in their tracks

    Dominic Casciani
    Home Affairs Correspondent

    This is the fifth terrorism incident of 2017 in which an attack has taken place. It’s the only one this year in which nobody has died. The previous four saw 36 people killed.

    Police believe they have stopped six other significant plots - all of which will soon be coming before the courts.

    Put plainly, this is the most sustained period of terrorist activity in England since the IRA bombing campaign of the early 1970s.

    What happens now? The Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Command needs to get to the bottom of three key questions. One: Who did it? Two: Are there any more devices out there? Three: Who else, if anyone, is involved?

    Experts from the government’s secret explosives research laboratory will be looking at the evidence from the train and seeing whether it matches anything else they have seen before.

  6. Video shows burning bag on the Tube

    Footage of a burning bag was taken at Parsons Green station following an explosion on a District Line train.

  7. Woman 'had to walk over other people' to escape

    Jason Rosam
    BBC Radio London

    Emergency services at Parson's GreenGetty Images

    BBC Radio London reporter Jason Rosam is reporting from outside Parsons Green station.

    He says he was told by one woman she had to walk over other people who fell on the platform to get out of the Tube train.

  8. 'People were running down the tracks'

    Passengers on the train behind the affected Tube train say they witnessed terrified passengers sprinting along the track. Nicole Linnell, 29, who works for a fashion label, says: "We saw people running down the tracks. About 30 or 40 people.

    "It was absolutely terrifying. Running on the tracks is the last thing you want to do, so we were like 'What's going on?' After about an hour we were evacuated off the train on to the tracks. About 10 to 15 people at a time."

  9. 'We will never be intimidated or defeated by terrorism' - Sadiq Khan

    The mayor of London has released a statement:

    The Metropolitan Police have confirmed that the explosion on a train at Parsons Green Station this morning is being treated as terrorism. Our city utterly condemns the hideous individuals who attempt to use terror to harm us and destroy our way of life. As London has proven again and again, we will never be intimidated or defeated by terrorism. I am in close contact with the Metropolitan Police, Transport for London, Government and other emergency services who are responding at the scene and leading the investigation. I will be attending the emergency COBRA meeting in Whitehall this afternoon with the Prime Minister. My sincere gratitude goes to all our courageous emergency responders and the TfL staff who were first on the scene. I urge all Londoners to remain calm and vigilant, and to check TfL’s website for travel advice.”

    Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London

  10. Streets blocked off

    BBC reporter Jennifer Scott reports from Parsons Green:

    A helicopter flies loudly overhead as confused and concerned members of the community wait on the street for more news.

    A huge police cordon has been put up around Parsons Green station, with every side street blocked off by blue and white tape.

    Police vehicles are still rushing down the smart west London road, with sirens blazing as they pass supermarkets, furniture stores and music shops.

    And bit by bit, commuters who were stuck on the trains behind are being allowed to exit.

    Justine Daniels had just arrived from South Africa, laden with suitcases, when her Tube train came to a stop.

    "We were on there for over an hour before they let us out through the emergency exit and we walked along the tracks," she says.

  11. Watch: Witness describes how 'fireball singed all my hair'

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  12. 'Passengers said there was a wall of flame'

    One man says passengers heard an explosion before leaving the train at Parsons Green station.

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  13. 'Thoughts are with those injured' - PM

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  14. PM to chair Cobra emergencies committee meeting

    Prime Minister Theresa May is to chair a meeting of the government's Cobra emergencies committee this afternoon to discuss the terrorist incident at Parsons Green.

  15. Parsons Green explosion declared a terrorist incident
    Breaking

    The Met have released an updated statement:

    Officers from the Met's Counter Terrorism Command are investigating after an incident on a London tube train this morning. Police were called at approximately 08:20 BST on Friday, 15 September to Parsons Green Underground Station following reports of a fire on the train. Deputy Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, the senior national coordinator for CT policing, has declared it a terrorist incident. Officers from the Metropolitan Police Service and British Transport Police attended the scene, along with colleagues from the London Fire Brigade and London Ambulance Service. At present we are aware of a number of people who have suffered injuries. It is too early to confirm the cause of the fire, which will be subject to the investigation that is now underway by the Met's Counter Terrorism Command. The station remains cordoned off and we are advising people to avoid the area.

    Met Police spokesperson

  16. Theresa May 'receiving regular updates'

    Parsons Green stationReuters

    A Downing Street spokesperson said Prime Minister Theresa May was "receiving regular updates" on the situation at Parsons Green.

  17. 'People were covered in blood'

    I walked into the station, there was blood on the floor and people running down the stairs screaming 'get out'. People were coming out of the station covered in blood. People have been stretchered into ambulances now."

    Robyn Frost, Commuter at Parsons Green

  18. Parsons Green 'explosion' being treated as terrorism
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    Daniel Sandford
    Home Affairs Correspondent

    Counter terrorism sources say their working assumption is that the Parsons Green incident is "terrorism".

  19. 'It looked like a bucket of mayonnaise'

    Sylvain Pennec, a software developer from Southfields, near Wimbledon, was around 10 metres from the source of the explosion.

    "I heard a boom and when I looked there were flames all around," he says. "People started to run but we were lucky to be stopping at Parsons Green as the door started to open."

    He says there was panic as commuters struggled to escape the carriage, "collapsing and pushing" each other.

    Mr Pennec stayed behind to take a closer look at what he believed was the source of the explosion. "It looked like a bucket of mayonnaise," he says.

    "I'm not sure if it was a chemical reaction or something else, but it looked home made. I'm not an expert though."

  20. Scotland Yard yet to confirm if incident is terror related

    Danny Shaw
    BBC Home Affairs Correspondent

    Emergency service vehiclesReuters

    Scotland Yard say they have had no reports of second device and no reports of a man with a knife.

    They have not yet confirmed or said that the incident is terror related.