An explosion shredded 22 and still counting through a packed commuter Tube Train at Parsons Green platform, London. Police officials declared it as a terror attack.

London terrified completely with a blast during rush hours rippled many at Parson Green Station.  After the explosion, almost half the crowd was injured in the stampede and many suffered burns on explosion.

One witness said there were “lots” of people injured in explosion and the subsequent rush to flee the train and station. Officials said no-one was seriously hurt.

Another witness said a “fireball flew down the carriage” during the Parsons Green terror attack.

St Mary is the hospital where victims were hospitalized and hospital declared the entire scene as a major accident.

One woman said on Twitter: “I’m safe – just had to run for my life at #ParsonsGreen station – huge stampede, lots injured. Not sure why – fire/explosion mentioned.”

As per “THE INDIAN EXPRESS” live updates occurrence of incidents goes as:

5.20 pm: Services remain affected on District Line following the incident. Plan and check ahead before travelling, said British Transport Police

05.00 pm: 22 people injured in London Underground terror attack: National Health Service (AFP)

04.50 pm: “We now assess that this was a detonation of an improvised explosive device,” Britain’s top counter-terrorism officer Mark Rowley said on Friday. London’s police are being supported by Britain’s MI5 intelligence service, he said.

04.40 pm: Device used in explosion at London metro station had a timer, said BBC, not citing its source

04.30 pm: President Donald Trump called the explosion at London underground station another attack by a “loser terrorist”

04.20 pm: Rachel Green, 18, was working in a coffee shop outside Parsons Green station when she heard the explosion. “We heard a bang and then we realised there were many distressed people leaving the station. We went to console them. There were over 100 – women coming out without shoes, battered and bruised, and they’d left their handbags behind. There was talk of a fire. Two people came in to the shop with their clothes burnt off, who said they saw a fire coming towards them. There were mothers with babies, it was the school rush time. I’m really shocked – this is a quiet family-friendly area,” she told the BBC.

04.10 pm: AC Mark Rowley speaks following the incident at Parsons Green tube station

04.00 pm: The device used during an incident at a London metro station on Friday did not fully detonate, Sky News reported, citing unnamed sources.

3.50 pm: London ambulance service said they have taken 18 patients to hospital after the underground incident. However, none of them are thought to be in a life threatening or serious condition.

 

 

3.40 pm: The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, in a Facebook post said, “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.”

 

3.30 pm: Scotland Yard’s counter-terrorism squad, SO15, arrived at the scene at Parsons Green Tube station and took the lead in the investigation from the British Transport Police.

3.20 pm: Prime Minister Theresa May will chair a meeting of Britain’s emergency response committee today following the incident, her office said in a statement. “My thoughts are with those injured at Parsons Green and the emergency services who, once again, are responding swiftly and bravely to a suspected terrorist incident,” May said in the statement. The meeting of COBR, the emergency response committee, will take place at 1200 GMT.

3.10 pm: British Prime Minister Theresa May has reacted to the incident. “My thoughts are with those injured at Parsons Green and emergency services who are responding bravely to this terrorist incident,” the official Twitter handle of UK PM tweeted.

3.05 pm: In a tweet, London city police force said the counter-terrorism unit is investigating the scene.

 

2.55 pm: Citing unnamed counter-terrorism sources, BBC reported that the British authorities are treating the incident at Parsons Green metro station as terrorism.

2.50 pm: “I was on second carriage from the back. I just heard a kind of whoosh. I looked up and saw the whole carriage engulfed in flames making its way towards me,” a man who was on the train told Reuters.

2.45 pm: British Prime Minister Theresa May’s office has said that the leader is “receiving regular updates” on the incident, Reuters reported.

 

2.40 pm: British Counter-terrorism officers have reached the metro station to investigate the scene of crime. Service on the western part of the District Line have been suspended.

2.30 pm: London Fire Brigade has also reached on the spot. They have two fire rescue units and around 50 firefighters at Parsons Green station, Reuters reported.

2.25 pm: Police vehicles have lined the street near Parsons Green tube station. The British Police has asked people to avoid the area near Parsons Green. “Officers from the Metropolitan Police Service and British Transport Police are in attendance along with the London Fire Brigade and London Ambulance Service,” London’s police said in a statement.

 

2.20 pm: Eyewitnesses told Reuters that flames engulfed one carriage and raced along a train on a west London route to Parsons Green, forcing passengers to trample others as they rushed for an exit.

2.00 pm: The BBC reports, quoting its London presenter Riz Lateef who was at the station, that people were left with injuries as they were trying to move away from the site. “There was panic as people rushed from the train, hearing what appeared to be an explosion” “People were left with cuts and grazes from trying to flee the scene. There was lots of panic.”

1.55 pm: Natasha Wills, Assistant Director of Operations at London ambulance Service said that they were called at 8.20 am to reports of an incident at Parsons Green Underground station.

Outside the station, a woman was sitting on a pavement with a bandage around her leg while armed police patrolled. A Reuters witness saw a woman being carried off on a stretcher with her legs covered in a foil blanket.

Police, ambulance services responding to “incident” at Parsons Green Underground station in west London after reports of the explosion, reports AFP. All metro services have been suspended.