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London hit again by terror blasts
"An Italian ... said a man was carrying a rucksack (that) suddenly exploded, a minor explosion but enough to blow open the rucksack, and the man then made an exclamation as if something had gone wrong and ... everyone rushed off the carriage." Police later swarmed into a nearby hospital to search it, amid media reports that they were looking for a man with wires protruding from the top he was wearing. Prime Minister Tony Blair told reporters: "We know why these things are done. They are done to scare people." HUNT FOR SUSPECTS Police sources said they were hunting several fugitives after the attacks which came at around 1 p.m. (1200 GMT), just after a memorial for July 7 victims, BBC television said. Passengers on at least two trains told of would-be bombers fleeing after small explosions -- which police said might have been detonators going off but failing to trigger a bomb. On July 7, four young British Muslims detonated bombs in three packed trains and a bus at morning rush hour, killing more than 50 people as well as themselves, and shocking a capital hitherto spared al Qaeda-style attacks on civilians. Those bombings confronted people and politicians with the prospect Britain
could be nurturing its own generation of Islamist militants, loyal to Osama bin
Laden, who have inflicted carnage in the United States on September 11, 2001, in
Bali and on Madrid's trains last year.
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