Eyewitnesses tell of bomb horror
By Kevin Lynch
EYEWITNESSES have described terrifying scenes of carnage and destruction following today's terror attacks on London.
Belinda Seabrook, who witnessed the bus blast in Tavistock Square told the BBC: "I was on the bus in front and heard an incredible bang, I turned round and half the double-decker bus was in the air.
"It was a massive explosion and there were papers and half a bus flying through the air, I think it was the number 205.
"There must be a lot of people dead as all the buses were packed; they had been turning people away from the tube stops."
Mr Ayobami Bello, 46, a security guard at the nearby London School of Tropical Hygiene and Medicine said the blast completely blew the bus apart.
He said: "It was terrible. The bus went to pieces. There were so many bodies on the floor.
"The back was completely gone, it was blown off completely and a dead body was hanging out and there were dead bodies on the road, it was a horrible thing."
He said other bodies sat slumped in their bus seats, some with arms and legs missing.
He said: "I can't believe it, I can't even believe I survived it.
"There was panic and everyone was running for their lives. I saw a lady coming towards me soaked in blood. Everyone was in confusion."
Terry O'Shea, a construction worker who survived the Aldgate blast told Sky News: "I was in the third carriage, the one behind the one where the explosion was. There was a loud bang and we felt the train shudder. Then smoke started coming in to the compartment. It was terrible.
"As they led us down the track past the carriage where the explosion was, we could see the roof was torn off it, and there were bodies on the track."
Gary Lewis, a 32-year-old customer services worker from Walthamstow, described seeing casualties at King's Cross moments before the bus blast.
He was among passengers evacuated from a tube train at the station moments after the explosion occurred.
"People were covered in black soot and smoke. People were running everywhere and screaming. It was chaos," he said.
"I came out into the ticket hall and saw casualties everywhere as medics tended to them.
"The one haunting image was someone whose face was totally black and pouring with blood."