But first he makes another televised statement, flanked by Presidents George Bush and Jacques Chirac. Meanwhile, the Home Secretary is telling the Commons that there have been three explosions on Tube trains and one on a bus but it is not yet known who is to blame. Even as he speaks, a group calling itself the Secret Organisation Group of al-Qa'ida of Jihad Organisation in Europe is claiming responsibility on a website, saying: "The heroic mujahedin have carried out a blessed raid in London. There are obviously casualties, both people that have died and people seriously injured, and our thoughts and prayers of course are with the victims and their families."The Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, will conduct G8 negotiations while he is gone.
The woman he found who lost all her limbs has died on the station concourse. Out in the dazzling daylight, somebody asks this exhausted, filthy policeman for directions That makes him smile But mostly he feels very lonely. He just wants to see a friend, or somebody he knows, and hug them.12 noonSoldiers with machine-guns are guarding Buckingham Palace, where the Union flag is at half mast The Queen says she is deeply shocked Royal engagements have been cancelled. The FTSE share index has fallen more than 200 points as investors abandon companies in the transport and holiday industries. At Gleneagles, Blair appears before the cameras for the first time, announcing that he is leaving the G8 summit for London.
Looking serious and taking long pauses between phrases, he says: "It is reasonably clear that there have been a series of terrorist attacks in London. He has been in the carriage where the bomb went off, where the roof had collapsed. "There were body parts everywhere, there was not one bit as far as I could see that was not covered with organs or blood or bits of body. I was squashed in by chairs and dead bodies as we searched for anyone alive. I could not help standing on things but I had to carry on and do my job."It was, he says, as though someone had poured black paint over shop dummies, cut them up and filled the train with their parts. Then later, as evening comes, she will be traced: alive but in hospital, and critically ill.At King's Cross, the last of the survivors are out. The rescue teams have withdrawn for a while, for fear the tunnel might collapse There are also dangers from fumes, asbestos and rats.
