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LONDON (AFP) - Shock turned rapidly to steely determination in London as the city's population faced up to a second apparent terrorist attack in as many weeks, once again paralysing the transport system.

 

Frightened travellers rushed out of London Underground subway stations after three small explosions were reported nearly simultaneously to the centre, west and south of the city.

 

Within minutes, swathes of the city were sealed off by striped police tape and the air was filled of the sound of sirens as dozens of emergency vehicles rushed past.

 

"There was a smell like wires or tires, but it wasn't the train making the burning smell," said Sofiane Mohellebi, a Frenchwoman who was on one of the trains where an explosion occurred, at Warren Street station in the city centre.

 

"People were screaming and panicking, but we managed to get off the train," she said.

 

Similar scenes took place around Shepherd's Bush station to the west and Oval, just south of the River Thames, near the famous cricket ground of the same name.

 

The chaos soon spread.

 

Hackney Road, a major thoroughfare in the eastern suburb of Bethnal Green, was sealed off after a bus driver heard a loud bang in his vehicle, followed by smoke.

 

"The first I knew of it there were people running about and running around in the street," said Paul Williamson, a 19-year-old bank worker who was around 20 metres (yards) from the bus when the blast happened.

 

Later still, a large radius around Saint Paul's Cathedral was blocked off by police, the cause this time being a suspicious package found inside the famous domed church, according to nearby workers who were evacuated.

Read the full article @ http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/britainattacks...zkxBHNlYwN0bQ--

 

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So do you think this is going to continue and why isn't it happening in the United States instead?

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